Example sentences of "i [verb] there [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I sit there for a second thinking , No , it ca n't be … |
| 5 | I can remember waiting some minutes before walking through the house , knowing that there must be proof of burglary at the back door , and when I got there in an uncomprehending state , lo and behold the kitchen door was broken right down ! |
| 6 | I arrived there at the due time and waited and waited , but no corporal appeared . |
| 7 | I arrived there during the last day of it , and heard Dr. Bernardo pleading eloquently on behalf of the children he labours so unweariedly to rescue from the streets of our great cities , and also saw a gathering of the colporteurs gathered from the north and west , to get a word of encouragement in their laborious work of carrying pure literature into the homes of those who in numbers of instances live beyond the reach of the minister and the bookseller . |
| 8 | ‘ I flew there in a rickety old aeroplane with standing room only . |
| 9 | I wanted to check on the landing patch that I keep there on a semi-permanent lease . |
| 10 | The do that in wonderful community centre , I went there to a good function the other evening , very good fish and chips and as well . |
| 11 | And I went there for a little bit , and then we moved on , moved off from there , do you see ? |
| 12 | Doing Ophelia on stage before taking up the BBC contract meant that I went there with a little track record — I 'd been blooded , if you like , and it made the whole thing a lot better . |
| 13 | Oh I w I went there as a young girl . |
| 14 | One company director — then unconverted — whom I took there for the first time one Tuesday had this reaction : ‘ All my life I have been longing without knowing it to hear preaching like this . ’ |
| 15 | Indeed , I sat there in the muggy warmth until the balding , bull-necked scruff of a proprietor or manager started to put the chairs upside down on the swabbed tables — a peculiar custom which is surely unhygienic enough to be banned by law . |
| 16 | I got to France on the 15th May 1915 and I stayed there until the 21st February 1919 . |
| 17 | For two or three days I stayed there in a commercial travellers ’ hotel . |
| 18 | I stood there like a half-opened penknife , splattering the forecourt noisily . |