Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] there [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I do like she says , and sit there with the damp towel round my neck and wait for her to come back . |
2 | A diver absorbing excessive nitrogen must ascend to a designated depth to reduce the pressure and remain there for a specified time for what is known as a ‘ decompression stop . ’ |
3 | Although born and bred in the country and reinstalled there for the past 30 years , I fear I am not a proper countryman ; London has dished me . |
4 | Many people claim that Frederick was imprisoned by the Turks , and that after his release he returned to Kaiserslautern and lived there for a long time . |
5 | The latter 's delight and enthusiasm were such that he insisted that Nicholas should be sent to study at Oxford University and maintained there at the royal charge ; but a month later the youth died , on his twentieth birthday . |
6 | His earliest patron was Hubert Walter , later archbishop of Canterbury [ q.v. ] , a fellow native of West Dereham and founder there of a Premonstratensian abbey whose charters are witnessed by Master Elias , perhaps as early as 1188 . |
7 | When I prised her off and tried to stand her on the floor she kept rocking back and sitting on her tail , then falling over sideways and lying there like a stuffed parrot . |
8 | One of his legs was shattered by shrapnel and lying there in the burning sun he prayed to God , ‘ Please God , accept my three wishes — Please send down St. David — you know , we in Wales have tremendous faith in St. David ’ . ’ |
9 | They 'd let them sink down to the bottom and drift there with the long-haired weeds — ; |
10 | One night , later in their affair , O woke up in the middle of one of his long and noisy dreams and lay there for a long time looking at Boy 's face as he slept . |
11 | He pushed her away , and she fell to the floor and lay there like a broken bird . |
12 | On retirement from the Army & Navy Stores I was appointed managing director of Hatchards , Piccadilly , and Miss Riley came as my secretary and continued there in a full or part time capacity for many years . |
13 | The cossacks were given allotments of land and farmed there as the wooden fortifications gradually rotted away . |
14 | Hopefully they will not include Bryan Adams ' ‘ ( Everything I Do ) I Do It For You ’ , which grabs the Number One spot in the UK singles chart and remains there for an unprecedented 16 weeks . |
15 | Goodfellow went to Korea in November 1945 and remained there until the following summer . |