Example sentences of "[verb] there a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Wakerley said when police later went to Sams ' workshop , in Newark , Nottinghamshire , they found there a set of stencils capable of producing both messages . |
| 2 | Beneath the castle he proposes to open a bay in the woods and build there a cottage that ‘ will give an air of cheerfulness and inhabitancy to the scene which would without it be too sombre , because the castle tho ’ perfectly in character with the solemn dignity of the surrounding woods , increases rather than relieves the apparent solitude ’ . |
| 3 | The Swiss underestimated the Scots mentality when we played there a year ago . |
| 4 | No , they was living together they 'd only been living there a fortnight ! |
| 5 | I shop there a lot as it 's so handy for my offices , and I seem to recall that about six months ago the floristry section was moved from an upper floor where no one ever saw it right on to the Oxford Street frontage . ’ |
| 6 | Just pausing there a minute , did you have did you I should say , have personal experience of that estate ? |
| 7 | ‘ Just wait there a moment . ’ |
| 8 | Wait there a moment , I 'll go and ask him . ’ |
| 9 | We used to go swimming there a lot . |
| 10 | Stop there a minute I know that 's the way I started off . |
| 11 | They lie there a minute , looking up at the ceiling . |
| 12 | No it is n't but what was not put was that er if the police had got there a couple of days earlier they would have caught because I was half . |
| 13 | I stopped going there a season ago too difficult to get a drink . |
| 14 | William Thomson , later Lord Kelvin , was elected to the chair of Natural Philosophy at Glasgow in 1846 at the age of twenty-two , and organized there a physics laboratory for students . |
| 15 | I stand there a bit , organising myself . |
| 16 | Before it gets there a barricade of grey concrete blocks daubed with ‘ Free Lithuania ’ and ‘ Independence for Baltic Countries ’ has been drawn across the street . |
| 17 | Sudanese radio reported on June 25 that the interim administration in Ethiopia had given SPLA forces based there a deadline ( unspecified ) before which they had either to disarm or to leave Ethiopian territory . |
| 18 | At this time I began , having been converted through reading the gospels , carefully to read the book of Acts and discovered there a level of Christian effectiveness of which I knew very little . |
| 19 | Yet , when one of the local farmers , grinding the bony soil of a resisting field , felt the earth give way and drop him into a narrow grave , and discovered there a store of gravegoods disposed around the human remains , the interval of the centuries seemed to close . |
| 20 | Bella had stayed there a bit , though , along with her ghastly cronies . |
| 21 | My head 's spinning , so I just sort of lean there a bit and have a rest . |
| 22 | He conquered Cyprus in three months and established there a base of operations for the Christian forces in the East . |
| 23 | At yesterday 's launch of Brook 's Impressions de Pelleas , his reworking of Debussy 's opera , Robert Palmer , Glasgow 's director of performing arts , introduced Brook as ‘ one who had brought to the Tramway the hallmark of excellence and established there a benchmark for others ’ achievement . ’ |
| 24 | Breathes there a woman with soul so dead that she can take a trip round Bath 's exhilarating architecture without wanting to take home ‘ a touch of the Georgians ’ — even if it 's only a silver spoon ? |
| 25 | I stay there a bit watching a telly programme with this man doing stuff . |
| 26 | He lay there a while longer , unable to relax , then got up and put on his robe . |
| 27 | She says she has much more chance at this school of getting the qualifications she would need to become a social worker or a journalist ( she feels there a lot of good black journalists around but not enough women ) . |
| 28 | He let his gaze rest there a moment . |
| 29 | ‘ Then went Samson to Gaza and saw there a harlot , and went in unto her . ’ |
| 30 | The bed that Boy climbed into that morning , knowing that he would n't sleep , but wanting just to lie there a while , was on the twentieth floor of a council block right close by the river on the east side of the city . |