Example sentences of "[v-ing] there [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a miracle , almost boiling hot water poured out of the taps into the bath and Julia let herself have a really deep bath for once , lying there dreaming about the day when her life might be whole again and weaving plans to make it so , until the skin of her fingers and toes crinkled and the water felt cold . |
| 2 | While I was lying there staring at the ceiling counting the number of tiles I heard a girl going ‘ ouch , ouch that hurts ’ , when I looked over she was having difficulty with the needle going in and I noticed she was barely gripping the nice bit of perspex . |
| 3 | ‘ I would n't fancy just standing there yelling into the void . ’ |
| 4 | At once it opened , as if she had been standing there waiting for the summons . |
| 5 | Stok was sitting there speaking to a telephone that looked like a prop from The Young Mister Edison . |
| 6 | I was sitting there waiting for the grub to show when Martin Amis came through the open door — you know , the writer I was chatting to in the pub the other night . |