Example sentences of "there [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plan turned out to be North 's own favoured ‘ final act ’ for the contras : that if Congress did not approve any more money for them they would seize a piece of Nicaragua , establish a provisional government and there make a last stand , while the American Navy blockaded the rest of the country . |
| 2 | It 's a kind of health farm and you go there to sample a simple lifestyle which Mongolians have been enduring for about 3,000 years and you are going to put up with for twenty-four hours . |
| 3 | I suppose that many people went there to support a particular person . |
| 4 | Yet he was unwilling to take leave , treating his engagement as settled , without some more conventional glance in that direction than he could find an opening for in the manner of the large , affable lady who sat there drawing a pair of soiled gants de Suede through a fat , jewelled hand and , at once pressing and gliding , repeated over and over everything but the thing he would have liked to hear ( 2 ) . |
| 5 | Black immigration , recession , and the enormous purses which television can provide have meant there remain a ready supply of men willing to risk brain damage in the ring . |
| 6 | None the less there remain a number of common misapprehensions that need constant clarification . |
| 7 | However , even after excluding these infective causes and any anatomical reasons ( it has been suggested , for instance , that a ‘ pouting ’ urethral meatus in women can give rise to recurrent urethral symptoms , and a urethral caruncle , a tiny button of sensitive flesh at the urethral opening , can certainly cause a similar discomfort ) , there remain a few women for whom no predisposing factor can be elicited . |
| 8 | Furthermore , if the demand for full-time places increases , will there remain a sufficient number of part-time students to sustain the continuance of the courses ? |
| 9 | There remain a great many questions to answer for psychological and linguistic theories . |
| 10 | There remain a few kinds of crime fiction we have yet to look at . |
| 11 | As I have said repeatedly , there remain a number of people for whom we think it is right to do more , and we have been doing more through the income support premiums . |
| 12 | And erm one of the girls that was on there became a very very famous soprano in the country , erm Connie Shackelock you 've probably not heard of her , she 's sort of a bit before your time but er she always used to sing Land of Hope and Glory on the last night of the Proms a few years ago . |
| 13 | A recently discovered ‘ memoir ’ of an old bedridden resident has , for December 1860 , the following : ‘ In an old house that was next to Mr Wagoner 's shop near the Red Lion there lived a man by the name of C … , who had been a gentleman 's servant , but had lost his character and situation and was very lazy . |
| 14 | Near Dad 's house there lived a couple . |
| 15 | But beneath this exterior there lived a man who treated the islanders with the affection which a good father bestows on his slightly wayward children . |
| 16 | ’ ’ In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit ’ ’ ’ ’ the opening to a novel that transformed the face of fantasy literature . |
| 17 | It is traffic-free ( motorised baggage trolleys ) which means that getting there involves a delightful half-hour train journey . |
| 18 | A week ago the garrison there made a sally against us and surrounded and took a company of our men . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ No thank you , ’ said Penelope , feeling that he could hardly sit there eating a sandwich unless she did too . |
| 20 | Dorothy L.Sayers was born and educated in the city , so it was only fitting that other women crime writers should be there to see a plaque unveiled in her honour . |
| 21 | Can there exist a continuous function which is not differentiable for any x ? |
| 22 | What is clear is that behind the brilliance of the official Court there lay a core of family — one is tempted to say bourgeois — life , but this is not , of course , how the Second Empire is remembered , for few even of the courtiers were admitted to the intimacy of the Imperial family and the general public not at all . |
| 23 | Approximately thirty-two kilometres west of the narrowest point of the Straits there lay a small group of rather oddly-named islands : Krakatoa , Verlaten Island , Lang Island and , oddest of all , Polish Hat . |
| 24 | Nutty had hoped that underneath his Nailsishness there lay a heart of gold , but if there did he took care not to reveal it . |
| 25 | And yet , underneath that veneer of stoicism there lay a devious imp . |
| 26 | He led me through to the next room , and up against the wall there lay a stack of some ten to fifteen canvases . |
| 27 | Beyond the compact unity of the City of London and the LCC ( and its constituent metropolitan boroughs ) there lay a multiplicity of administrative units , extending over almost 2,600 square miles divided amongst no less than 143 local authorities , nearly every one of which had a planning scheme prepared or in course of preparation , independently of its neighbours . |
| 28 | I wondered what he would say if I should remark that just outside the right-hand frame there lay a disused water wheel , and that the low wall of the ruined house had a hollow place where it was comfortable to sit , shaded by what remained of the pigeon tower . |
| 29 | On the altar there lay a long dark shadow . |
| 30 | Between its upper and lower layers there lies a cavity , filled with an oily material similar to that found in the melon ( see Figure 4.2 ) . |