Example sentences of "[vb pp] there [prep] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thousands of school children , all of them well over sixteen , were crammed there into a large tall gilt room , and told not to insult the French , not to talk to Arabs , and not to go to Montmartre : then an English lady stood up and said that Paris had always been for her a source inépuisable de something , and everyone clapped , and then they were all turned out again , rather quickly , for the room was clearly needed for something else . |
| 2 | To me it was all familiar ( why , only a few years before I 'd danced there with a stiff-backed medical student by the name of Achille Flaubert ) . |
| 3 | In 1763 the now very substantial collection in the Louvre ( even in 1715 it had amounted to 2,000 bound volumes ) returned to Versailles to be kept there in a new foreign ministry building . |
| 4 | Faye 's medical supplies were kept there in a large lockable cupboard , and that blood-sugar level should be monitored within the next ten minutes . |
| 5 | They had been imprisoned there by a long dead ruler , Llud . |