Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] there [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got there on one A-level and kept thinking I should n't really be here . |
| 2 | I served there for thirteen year , became a chargehand eventually and eventually the f the firm folded up . |
| 3 | And er I stayed there at that school until nineteen hundred and twelve . |
| 4 | I stayed there for some time and looked at the castle , and then I walked on through the forest for about an hour . |
| 5 | Over the farmhouse door is a date stone , 1712 , referring to Roger and Isabella Taylor , who lived there at that time . |
| 6 | She moved there with French husband and , after failing to persuade the French authorities to accept her English teaching qualifications , she has pursued a career as a bilingual secretary , joining Courtaulds seven years ago . |
| 7 | Off Coleshill Road , north of the city centre , is a short street called Cash 's Lane , named after the Cash brothers , John and Joseph , who built there in 1857 Cash 's ‘ Top Shops ’ . |
| 8 | The device could 've been planted as early as Saturday morning and police want to speak to anyone who went there from that time , to when the alarm was raised yesterday . |
| 9 | She stayed there for some time , the heavy depression that had been weighing her down ever since Marianne had appeared in her room soothed a little by the gentle singing of the river . |
| 10 | The ninth bomber came out of a lightening sky at six o'clock exactly , and though she sat there for another hour , it was the last . |
| 11 | The other thing I wondered when I was watching the video , you sat there at one stage , while I was writing and I thought , I thought , what are you thinking ? |
| 12 | If you want to label people modernizers , we got there in this union first . |
| 13 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
| 14 | So something happened there at that house , we told 'em the house number , where the lamp 's situated , we gave 'em all the information they they need but we still ca n't get any response . |
| 15 | A girl I vaguely knew from the village was standing there with tears streaming down her face and apart from the occasional sob from her we stood there in stony silence . |
| 16 | ‘ Athens , my chiefest joy , ’ he had written several years before he got there in vivid anticipation ; now he experienced its individual dynamic . |
| 17 | And you may ask yourselves , my dear and most innocent readers , whether he spoke there with more gentleness or cunning , since the lady set such store on giving herself of her own free will , and since also the castle with its gardens , though now measurable with pins and fine stitches and thumbnails and thimbles , were lordly and handsome enough for any man to wish to spend his days there . |
| 18 | He remained there for some time . |
| 19 | He stood there in full evening dress , the shiny black rim of his topper slicing across the bulge of his massive brow . |