Example sentences of "[vb past] there [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Off Coleshill Road , north of the city centre , is a short street called Cash 's Lane , named after the Cash brothers , John and Joseph , who built there in 1857 Cash 's ‘ Top Shops ’ . |
| 2 | She moved there with French husband and , after failing to persuade the French authorities to accept her English teaching qualifications , she has pursued a career as a bilingual secretary , joining Courtaulds seven years ago . |
| 3 | The club moved there in 1954 . |
| 4 | The club moved there in 1954 . |
| 5 | They moved there in 1965 to take on the joint roles of warden and matron at the then residential and day training centre for the mentally handicapped . |
| 6 | When the lease ended in 1810 , Lord transferred his ground to North Bank , Regent 's Park , in order to avoid a greatly increased rent bill , and the MCC moved there in 1811 . |
| 7 | He moved there in 1920 and his first years were marked by extreme poverty . |
| 8 | Despite Australia 's economic difficulties , sales also rose there by 3 per cent . |
| 9 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 10 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
| 11 | He follows his great grandmother who played there in 1904 . |
| 12 | She studied there for three years with Frederick Brown and Henry Tonks [ qq.v. ] , winning a certificate for figure drawing ( 1896–7 ) and the Melvill Nettleship prize for figure composition ( 1897–8 ) . |
| 13 | She was playing the piano on Children 's Hour when the BBC studios opened there in 1956 . |
| 14 | Only the Strand block , now appropriately ( if not very elegantly ) occupied by the Courtauld Institute Galleries , which opened there in 1990 , was intended for ‘ cultural ’ use — as premises for the Royal Academy and other learned bodies . |
| 15 | So something happened there at that house , we told 'em the house number , where the lamp 's situated , we gave 'em all the information they they need but we still ca n't get any response . |
| 16 | Ramsey arrived there on 30 July 1927 . |
| 17 | It was much more convenient to carry out a fine firing exercise on our backs … result : I arrived there with 175 men , I returned with 34 , several half mad . |
| 18 | I arrived there at ten-thirty to find an ashen-faced Geraldine hunched in a chair by the door . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , Jonathan arrived there in 1882 and missed the emperor by about 60 years . |
| 20 | Cistercian monks arrived there in 1152 and built their large abbey in some remote fields close to the banks of the River Aire . |
| 21 | The spiritual history of Cotherstone reflects the ebb and flow of religious influence in the Teesdale area George Fox arrived there in 1653 and established the Quakers as the dominant force in the village . |
| 22 | I felt very alone at that moment , stuck there on that track somewhere in the Andes , my body chill with sweat and my hands still trembling with the nervous tension of getting safely through the rutted mud of the bend . |
| 23 | Rosita and I are to be punished , stuck there with long faces , alongside our fellow wrong-doers , representations of swarthy people , black as tea taken without milk . |
| 24 | The story was an apparently true one concerning a certain butler who had travelled with his employer to India and served there for many years maintaining amongst the native staff the same high standards he had commanded in England . |
| 25 | He served there for many years , ultimately becoming chairman . |
| 26 | I served there for thirteen year , became a chargehand eventually and eventually the f the firm folded up . |
| 27 | He served there until 1841 , and , moving easily in Russian society , was a shrewd commentator on Russian social conditions , personalities , and policy . |
| 28 | The alteration of the building into offices was approved in 1946 , and the various services of the then Junta began there in 1953 . |
| 29 | The needle crept steadily up to Mach .99 and hung there for several seconds . |
| 30 | I campaigned there in 1981 for Eddie Fenech-Adami . |