Example sentences of "[vb base] there [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even by the 1980s , seminar teaching had found little hold there despite a decreasing proportion of staff to students . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | You sit there , then you get up and you walk to one end of your cell , which is n't very far , stand there for a little while , then you walk back , look out the window , and all the thoughts go through your mind — I could be out there , your children , friends , what you 'd be doing if you was out there . |
| 4 | The second half proved a nightmare as the visitors hit the first three baskets to take the lead for the first time and stay there for a 7670 victory . |
| 5 | Stay there for a few minutes and you will begin to experience one of several sensations : it may be a slight breeze , or perhaps a tingling sensation , heat ( especially in the palms ) , static or even a magnetic pull . |
| 6 | In contrast to some other low-income countries in Africa , most children do eventually get to primary school and stay there for a few years . |
| 7 | Go there on a false errand . |
| 8 | I wanted to check on the landing patch that I keep there on a semi-permanent lease . |
| 9 | I sit there for a second thinking , No , it ca n't be … |
| 10 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 11 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 12 | And , miraculously , there was little resistance and I stared in disbelief as the great organ disappeared gloriously and wonderfully from sight I was right behind it with my arm , probing frantically away up to the shoulder as I rotated my wrist again and again till both uterine cornua were fully involuted Ben I was certain beyond doubt that everything was back in place I lay there for a few moments , my arm still deep inside the sow , my forehead resting on the floor . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |