Example sentences of "[verb] there [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 2 | My father had proceeded to stand there for some moments , saying nothing , merely holding open the door . |
| 3 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
| 4 | I used to fish there with some friends several years ago and we rarely caught less than 100lbs in a session . |
| 5 | Christopher had obviously been going there for some years . |
| 6 | This allows for repricing of the budget for November , nineteen ninety-two , to November nineteen ninety-three , and that sum is shown there as some fifty- seven thousand pounds . |
| 7 | Driven there by some distant memory from his youth . |
| 8 | She had settled there to some extent by the time I was released and I did n't think it was good to disrupt her again . |
| 9 | Similarly , extensive pastures can be at some distance , since animals can be walked there and kept there for some time by herdsmen . |
| 10 | We , we must go there at some stage to see her . |
| 11 | We contented ourselves with a few small purchases , but will probably go there for some more serious shopping before the end of our stay in Peking , as it is obviously the best place in the country for buying touristy things . |
| 12 | It might also cause the price of oil to soar above $50 a barrel and stay there for some months . |
| 13 | In the spring , vast masses of frogs ' spawn floated just beneath the surface , like submerged chain-mail cast there by some passing knight . |
| 14 | ‘ Riddle went there on some Wednesdays and almost every Friday . ’ |
| 15 | I had noticed the name on a map but had never read a mention of it so went there in some trepidation : it seemed remote , so far from towns and railways . |
| 16 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |
| 17 | That was , no that was that was Byrite and that , but I w I would go there but I 'd like to go there with some idea what the price elsewhere is . |
| 18 | ‘ Are you going to stop sitting there like some goddammed statue and fill me in on what 's going on in your head ? ’ |
| 19 | Biting her lip hard to prevent herself screaming at him to stop sitting there like some damned great Buddha she busied herself finding soap powder for the machine , and in her agitation knocked the packet over , spilling powder all over the floor . |
| 20 | The muddle and rush were greater even than at Reading , and we were often kept there for some twenty minutes . |
| 21 | This was unsuccessful , but fighting continued there for some time . |
| 22 | In Kufra one policeman ( the senior customs officer ) was a stranger , though he had lived there for some decades ; in Tazarbu nearly all policemen were from one lineage ( Bilal ) , or had married into it ; the senior officer 's son was also in the force , a trainee under his father 's authority . |
| 23 | Most of the families in Rimswell , especially those concerned in agriculture , have lived there for some generations . |
| 24 | Mr Fallon said a family renting a house valued at £25,000 , and entitled to the maximum price discount of 40pc because they had lived there for some years , could have a mortgage of £10,000 . |
| 25 | She had lived there for some time although it is not known where she lived before coming to Darlington . |
| 26 | There were signs that Sir Charles had stood there for some time . |
| 27 | He could not say when , but the horse dung and the faint indentations in the dry earth showed riders had stood there for some time . |
| 28 | Near the Salt Tower he found the gravel-strewn slush had been disturbed , indicating someone had stood there for some time . |
| 29 | The discoveries mentioned there of some of the world 's best mathematicians should whet the appetite for , and also place in some kind of perspective , the mathematics covered in Chapters 1 through 6 . |
| 30 | All one can say with any certainty is that the Pounds ( and probably the Yeatses also ) paid at least two visits to Sicily in these years , and that on at least one occasion — probably on more than one — they stayed there for some weeks , if not months . |