Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] there [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wondered whether to tell the four of them seated there about the death of Dr Kemp , for they 'd have to know very soon anyway . |
| 2 | I lay there on the couch and shuddered at the very thought . |
| 3 | Rather as it looked when I lay there in the dark , wedged between the changed Herta and the cold wall , in full confidence of erotic failure . |
| 4 | I lay there in the Bomb Circle where I killed her other son , and I hoped that she was dead , too . |
| 5 | ‘ I sit there in the laboratory , ’ says Phil , ‘ trying to think how people go , and I ca n't remember . |
| 6 | Oh , yes , it took me a bit of time to recognise you , but I got there in the end . |
| 7 | But erm I stopped there till the war was finished and then er I went back to the Lock and as asked them if th there was any chance of coming back to work there , you know , cos and er they said oh yes , as long as you like . |
| 8 | All I am conscious of , as I stand there with the page in my hand , is that here at last are the two terms of my inquiry , Strategy and Summerchild , united by the same sheet of paper . |
| 9 | Whereas I lie there in the night with an expired passport , pushing a baggage trolley with a squeaking wheel across to the wrong carousel . |
| 10 | Yeah , but it 's very , it 's well , can , I do n't suppose it can be , I might of had one of the speakers out but I know there in the back of the speakers , you had this loft insulation it 's full of that |
| 11 | But I mean you know he 's a workaholic and he expects everybody to be the same and then he works in there by the time I get there in the morning he works , works solidly right through until I leave there at night , you know . |
| 12 | I went there for the clothing , because Antoinette wanted me to take photographs . |
| 13 | I went there for the opening and I 'm really proud to be associated with water because I think it 's I think it 's a wonderful piece of engineering and excellent . |
| 14 | Added to that , there was something about the Wartberg works that I found soothing the first time I went there for the interview . |
| 15 | I went there with the intention and cash to buy a PRS/Eggle dream machine — surely a salesperson 's dream ! |
| 16 | I still remember that Christmas Day — the inspector and I standing there in the drizzle — the city of Belfast enjoying an uneasy period of quietness with the men of violence possibly challenged by their memories of the Christmas Message and declaring a truce [ for Christmas only ] . |
| 17 | I waited there on the grass too long . |
| 18 | I can sort out everything I need there in the morning . |
| 19 | I sat there in the darkness for a moment and then the grill slid open . |
| 20 | As I sat there in the dark , the ship moving gently in the water , I almost fell asleep . |
| 21 | I sat there in the dark , waiting for her to return . |
| 22 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 23 | I stayed there for the duration to try and prove to myself that I was able to do it . |
| 24 | As I stood there with the pencil hovering over the ballot paper , the child 's voice echoed in my ear . |
| 25 | I stood there with the salt spray and the mist damp on my face , and the vastness of it , and the antiquity of the desolate remains behind me , made all my life to date seem insignificant and of no account . |
| 26 | I stood there on the beach waiting to feel this excruciating pain , but nothing came , so I must have escaped . ’ |
| 27 | I stood there at the entrance to her lair , hesitating , unsure of what to do next . |
| 28 | As Pyke got me a half of bitter I stood there regarding the rows of inverted bottles behind the barman 's head , not looking at the other actors in the pub , who I knew were all staring at me . |
| 29 | I stood there in the trees , absolutely at a loss ; and then smiled . |
| 30 | I stood there in the dark and the rain , and knew that I had created a monster . |