Example sentences of "[vb past] 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 | The Swiss underestimated the Scots mentality when we played there a year ago . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He conquered Cyprus in three months and established there a base of operations for the Christian forces in the East . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | He lay there a while longer , unable to relax , then got up and put on his robe . |
| 9 | ‘ Then went Samson to Gaza and saw there a harlot , and went in unto her . ’ |
| 10 | He went there a year before the war , and is doing well I believe . ’ |
| 11 | We got there a quarter of an hour early , around nine in the morning . |
| 12 | When they got there a group of men were already pulling the monster off the sharpened stakes they had set in the bottom of a pit . |
| 13 | I said he said yes sh with , with her , when she was first married , but she only lived there a couple of months . |
| 14 | Harry felt his way backwards to the wall , out of range of the searching eyes , and leaned there a moment to breathe more easily . |
| 15 | She waited there a bit and then dashed up the road and crossed over to our street . |
| 16 | Who said there a success ? |
| 17 | We sat there a while , almost dark inside after Mendez dropped the side curtains , not saying anything , feeling the coach move up and down on its leather thoroughbraces as the boy who worked for us put the travelling bags in the rear end boot and covered them with a canvas . |
| 18 | Congregation , congregation , it 's not sort of all sort of these people sat there a disco or something do n't they ? |
| 19 | Li Yuan sat there a moment longer , thinking over the satisfactions of the last few days , recollecting the great feeling of ch'i , of pure energy , he had experienced in dealing with these matters . |
| 20 | That Arthur 'ad stopped at a pub on 'is way to the church , 'e said 'e needed fortifyin' , and 'im and 'is best man both went in the pub an' stayed there a lot longer than they should of . |
| 21 | He crouched there a moment , watching him . |
| 22 | She could see lights on inside and men moving about , and as she stood there a policeman in uniform came out of the front door . |
| 23 | Li Yuan stood there a while , watching her go . |
| 24 | He stood there a while longer , mindlessly enjoying the flow of water over his limbs . |
| 25 | Meg stood there a moment , staring at the journal , wondering what it said , knowing Ben would tell her when he wanted to . |
| 26 | She stood there a moment , suddenly aware of how still he was . |
| 27 | She stood there a moment , looking out across the pre-dawn darkness of the spaceport , barely conscious of the passengers pushing by , knowing that this was probably the last view she would ever have of City Europe — the City in which she had spent her whole life . |
| 28 | He stood there a moment , not certain what to do , then let instinct take over . |
| 29 | Li Shai Tung stood there a moment , his arm outstretched , one hand resting against the door frame as he got his breath . |
| 30 | ’ He stood there a moment longer , watching her , then turned and made his way back along the path towards the house . |