Example sentences of "[verb] there a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | London died 12 January 1714 , leaving estates in Thames Ditton , purchased from Talman , who built there a small house for his lifelong friend . |
| 2 | Only when he trawled his memory of leaving the room earlier , and found there a distinct recollection of checking that he had locked the door behind him , did irritation turn to anxiety . |
| 3 | I noticed there a young man what 's he called Richard is he ? |
| 4 | generally speaking the nation had good ears , they knew what was what and they listened quite well , hear you deaf ones he 's describing them and look forth to see you blind once verse twenty it was a case of seeing many things , but you did not cheat watching and Daniel , verse twenty five , look it says there a little phrase near , half way through that he took no note , the nation took no note of what was happening at that time , but we know what happened to them , many of them , thousands , a million of them lost their lives did n't they ? |
| 5 | Once you have established better eating habits , cut out the empty calorie foods , and achieved your target weight by a slow , careful process of calorie control , you should find staying there a natural follow-up . |
| 6 | Unless hers is the first brood of the season , she finds there a large flock of other ducklings supervised by one or two adult females . |
| 7 | ‘ After the death of his beloved Queen Taj Mahal , ’ wrote Manucci , ‘ Shah Jehan selected in Hindustan the city of Dihli in order to build there a new city as his capital . |
| 8 | She lay there a long time in the bath , soaking , looking through the open door at his sleeping figure on the bed . |
| 9 | The Chiswick Empire featured in the life of Michael Redgrave , who — as a boy — saw there a rough and ready performance , by Ben Greet , and his company , of ‘ Macbeth ’ . |
| 10 | However , when he returned in 1908 to the foreign ministry in St Petersburg he was struck by finding there a considerable number of women typists who " filled the offices , walked arm in arm in the corridors , and flirted with everybody " . |
| 11 | They 'd planned to stay there a long time and they left fingerprints all over the place |
| 12 | ‘ Was n't there a policeman shot there a little while ago ? ’ |
| 13 | I sat there a long time , bored , with a cold bottom , and I was about to open the pub door to tell him I was going home when I saw the organ grinder trundling his barrel-organ down the street . |
| 14 | There is a legend , born out of a murder once committed at the St. James ' Theatre , that if anyone else should be murdered there a dumb woman will appear on stage to reveal the murderer . |
| 15 | We stayed there a long time , until well after midnight . |
| 16 | Then she shut us in the byre — and we stayed there a long time ! |
| 17 | I have there a large collection of dried plants and a pacquet of seeds , which I hope for before the end of April . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I stood there a long time , looking at a row of the most twisted , gnarled , sorry-looking pollard willows I have ever seen . |
| 19 | We stood there a long time watching , heads tipped back , neck muscles beginning to ache . |
| 20 | He stood there a long time , letting the feeling ebb . |
| 21 | Three minutes ago she stood there a fucking minute , never mind about Lucinda . |
| 22 | Liz had joked that they were sure , in the rafters , to discover a dead baby , and indeed they did find there a mummified cat , which a pathologist friend hazarded to be at least a hundred years old . |