Example sentences of "there [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deciding where to place your boat on the start line and then threading your way there through a crowded fleet is no mean feat , but Stuart Quarrie offers some tips |
| 2 | Rome Central is one of the three top postings in the country , along with Milan and Naples , and I 'd worked my way there through a succession of jobs in various provincial headquarters . |
| 3 | You 're talking there about a bunch of people trying to stop another bunch of people 's expression of what they see , when they know absolutely nothing about them . |
| 4 | You 're talking there about a bunch of people trying to stop another bunch of people 's expression of what they see , when they know absolutely nothing about them . |
| 5 | Oh I was there about a good bit . |
| 6 | They 'd have been there about a couple of weeks . |
| 7 | I went down there about a month ago say hello to them all . |
| 8 | Now we travelled the best part of the Ukraine and we also dipped into and er we were there about a month , just under a month , and erm one of the impressions that I got there , just as an ordinary chap , no , not learned politically so I ca n't speak on the level er of most of your callers today , but er , I realise that here you had er people , in actual fact my my comment was the country 's half finished , everywhere you went there were building constructions so far incomplete , er projects underway and you 've got the impression that they did need communism in a way to make the thing work er , the er , let's take the Ukrainians , I mean that , that 's where the Cossacks come from and they love a good time , er those sort of people in a way need a strong government . |
| 9 | we were gon na go down there , but erm nan and granddad had been down there about a fortnight ago and they said they had n't got a lot out yet , they said they would n't be out for about another three weeks , so about |
| 10 | Edmund Sparkler born there during a ‘ mighty frost ’ in which , his companions say , ‘ his brain had been frozen up … and had never thawed from that hour ’ . |
| 11 | Ron and Pat Woolley , of Rhyl , recently took a huge lorry-load of medical supplies , equipment and clothes to the Klaipicla Children 's Hospital in Lithuania after being shocked by the conditions they found there during a previous visit . |
| 12 | I used to help there as a boy . |
| 13 | I was neither Jew nor English nor white , or even a proper Indian or a proper Pakistani ; but my travels through Europe and stay in the USA and my near acceptance there as a living entity capable of suffering pain and enjoying pleasure had temporarily given me a sort of quasi-human status , further aggravated by those willing to be my sexual partners ; I had become spoilt and pampered . |
| 14 | It was not that they were there as a punishment , just that the cellar was their living room ( a common arrangement in the back-to-backs of Bradford where most Asian families live ) . |
| 15 | The report spells out a series of options , and leans towards a plan which would put men on the Moon in 2001 to build a base there as a springboard for the Martian expedition 10 years later . |
| 16 | While for boys the ‘ justice ’ rather than the ‘ welfare ’ model prevails , between 70 and 80 per cent of girls in care in this country are there as a result of parents or step-parents calling in the social services because they feel their daughters to be ‘ beyond parental control ’ or ‘ morally at risk ’ . |
| 17 | But it does state that ‘ immediately after Soviet power had been restored there as a result of complicated processes in international and internal life ’ abuses of power and human rights violations were committed . |
| 18 | She lit a candle over there as a silent prayer for her estranged husband and went home . |
| 19 | ‘ Take your son , your only son , whom you love , Isaac , and go to the land of Moriah , and offer him there as a burnt offering upon one of the mountains of which I shall tell you . ’ |
| 20 | In effect , the first dog has always been there as a crutch to rely upon . |
| 21 | Like Jos , her brother had worked there as a boy . |
| 22 | ‘ I think the cairn was placed there as a landmark to guide Bronze Age pilgrims to the rings of stone , ’ he said . |
| 23 | ‘ I used to play there as a boy , and people told us the tunnels went all the way to Cuchulain 's castle . |
| 24 | But if they do n't — well , they are there as a record . |
| 25 | Leading a band of forty-five lodges up the Valley of Winding Waters in the summer of 1875 , Joseph found two companies of cavalry under Captain Whipple stationed there as a peace-keeping force . |
| 26 | He had studied psychology at QUB from 1961 and made a reputation there as a debater , winning the Orator of the Year award in 1963 . |
| 27 | Pat Riley , large , square and solid , the sergeant-major who ruled by tact , was actually an American citizen , having been taken there as a child . |
| 28 | She remembers Guildford with affection — since she trained there as a young actress in the 1950s . |
| 29 | However , Bukharin 's ideas were not formed solely by what was currently happening in Soviet Russia ; rather he viewed what was happening there as a part of a much larger upheaval on a world scale . |
| 30 | Almost immediately they felt the vibration in the deck , a steady throbbing that was there as a constant background between the ringing blows of the storm . |