Example sentences of "[verb] there on a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | We arrived there on a wild morning in May , having the previous evening taken the ferry from Fishguard in Wales to Rosslare , Co Wexford , about 50 miles away . |
2 | We drive there on an empty street which is barely rubble , strewn with rusty cans that look like tankers , sweet wrappers , empty beer bottles and hordes of children shouting by the side of the road . |
3 | Many of them had spent weeks getting there on a dangerous journey from their homes in Sarajevo . |
4 | Go there on a false errand . |
5 | I wanted to check on the landing patch that I keep there on a semi-permanent lease . |
6 | On the window was a blue-and-red peacock she had stencilled there on a wet afternoon when the garden was blanked out with grey rain . |
7 | The car was in Cairo and belonged to my brother , who was working there on a six-month contract . |
8 | Kurunagala , the centre of the Northern Band , remained an economic backwater in the 1860s , but in the late 1880s and 1890s coconut plantations were established there on a large scale . |