Example sentences of "[vb past] there [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She remembers Guildford with affection — since she trained there as a young actress in the 1950s . |
| 2 | Ron and Pat Woolley , of Rhyl , recently took a huge lorry-load of medical supplies , equipment and clothes to the Klaipicla Children 's Hospital in Lithuania after being shocked by the conditions they found there during a previous visit . |
| 3 | Then his glance flicked down to her mouth , lingered there for a moment — and she just knew that he was remembering those kisses they had shared . |
| 4 | Then finally , Paul Reichmann saw the opportunity he had been waiting for in London , a city he fondly recalled from the days when he studied there as a young man . |
| 5 | Æthelred 's confirmation of the will of Æthelric of Bocking , which is from no later than 999 , says that there was a plan to receive Swegen in Essex when he first came there with a fleet , and that Æthelred was told of Æthelric 's involvement in it many years before he died . |
| 6 | Leading a band of forty-five lodges up the Valley of Winding Waters in the summer of 1875 , Joseph found two companies of cavalry under Captain Whipple stationed there as a peace-keeping force . |
| 7 | Behind her , the flat expanse in the centre of the roof was dominated by something that perched there like a gigantic black dragonfly . |
| 8 | We arrived there on a wild morning in May , having the previous evening taken the ferry from Fishguard in Wales to Rosslare , Co Wexford , about 50 miles away . |
| 9 | I arrived there on a planeload of Canadian oil-drillers who were several inches taller than me even without their high-heeled boots . |
| 10 | The second thing I did n't know , she er , she worked eighteen , she worked for eighteen months in London , arrived there for a holiday , and er , from being eighteen , so sh , this now will explain why she 's quite mature as I said she 's still very young , and that . |
| 11 | A snowflake touched the glass , stuck there for a moment then melted . |
| 12 | Walked there for a start . |
| 13 | We walked from Little Thomham to Steams of Shimpling ; and we walked there for a week . |
| 14 | The gear had held and I hung there for a moment , taking stock . |
| 15 | The last gleam of sun touched the ruined battlements as they watched , hung there for a moment like a tattered cloth caught on a briar , and was gone . |
| 16 | He hung there for a second before slithering sideways , and as he slipped towards the ground the seladang hooked blindly at his body , knocking it this way and that , until one of its long horns caught and held . |
| 17 | It hung there for a moment . |
| 18 | The drum grew louder in the final roll , the flautists blew steadily , keying up anticipation , and the rattle fell silent as Dulé took one step with his other foot and left the ground , then hand over hand into the air shinned up the free-standing ladder till he alighted at the tenth rung and hung there like a heron on a breakwater at home , it seemed to Kit , even as he asked himself in wonder , what unearthly magic 's here ? |
| 19 | It collected there in a stone hollow , fell down over moss . |
| 20 | As I looked towards the right , however , along the other widespread arm of the building , something materialized there like a stain : light towards the dead dull end of the electromagnetic spectrum . |
| 21 | The Modernists had enjoyed a brief life as a London group after Pound settled there for a dozen years in 1908 ; Bloomsbury was already one , first in Cambridge and later in London and Sussex , sharing not just a range of assumptions and convictions but an intimate web of social and amorous relations . |
| 22 | And Dr Charles Deering , who settled there after a wandering career , said that ‘ were a naturalist in Quest of an exquisite Spot to build a Town or a City , could he meet with one that would better answer his Wishes ? ’ |
| 23 | It was Mrs Robinson who served him his late breakfast and it took no more than the tapping of an eggshell to discover from that guileless woman that her husband had gone down to Lorton with goats ' cheese and potted char for the market men who called there on a Thursday . |
| 24 | ‘ I flew there in a rickety old aeroplane with standing room only . |
| 25 | Moreover , Dorothy 's Englishness was centuries old : among her cousins was one Charles Talbot — ‘ one of the Shakespear names ’ , she said — who owned a medieval abbey , ‘ and once Ezra and I crawled over the roof in a turret to see a copy of the Magna Charta , kept there in a glass case ’ . |
| 26 | I threw my bag into Armstrong 's boot and checked the sleeping-bag I always kept there in a polythene bag . |
| 27 | He lay there for a moment , stunned , winded , waiting for a message from his numbed brain . |
| 28 | He lay there for a moment , getting his breath . |
| 29 | One night , later in their affair , O woke up in the middle of one of his long and noisy dreams and lay there for a long time looking at Boy 's face as he slept . |
| 30 | He lay there for a minute , beneath his tumbled bedclothes , savouring the excitement . |