Example sentences of "and [vb past] there [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found it and clung there for a while , then pushed clear and knelt among the waves , head lowered . |
| 2 | She abandoned the half-formed thought as he went on , ‘ I was educated in England , and lived there for a number of years . |
| 3 | That man was admitted to hospital after his fall and died there within a week without regaining consciousness . |
| 4 | Still , she reached Bristol , and waited there for a ship , ‘ with plenteous tears and boisterous sobbings , with loud cryings and shrill shriekings ’ , and , although her fellow-voyagers threatened to throw her overboard , she got to Spain and back to Bristol in a month . |
| 5 | Adam closed the front door and stood there for a moment as if he could not wrench himself away . |
| 6 | A statement that the buildings in Old Aberdeen are beautiful is embedded within an assertion that the speaker was recently in Old Aberdeen , and stayed there for a period , and so she has a warrant for making the statement . |
| 7 | Then she went back to her car and sat there for a while . |
| 8 | Mildred leapt to the floor and sat there for a moment , reflecting how nice it was to be able to jump such an amazing distance without getting hurt . |
| 9 | Donna slid behind the wheel of the Volvo and sat there for a moment , looking back at the ruins . |
| 10 | Do n't just go into these meetings and sat there like a dumbbell . |