Example sentences of "[v-ing] there [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you see what we 've got here is this problem of the old definition of quality , still lurking there in the mind , quality is a degree of excellence , therefore you have high quality and low quality . |
| 2 | This was acquired in the early ‘ twenties by the Noyce family and they continued trading there for the next sixty years . |
| 3 | Despite the stateliness of their domestic setting , Wordsworth and his sister were hardly more financially secure at Racedown than the household at Lime Street , and owed the possibility of living there to the brothers John and Azariah Pinney . |
| 4 | A thorough examination of all the available hearth tax returns on a county basis will enable him to identify which parishes had someone with the appropriate surname living there during the reign of Charles II . |
| 5 | The strain of living there in the weeks to come would be intolerable . |
| 6 | Two hundred wives have gone to live in Northern Ireland to be with their husbands serving there with the Gloucestershire regiment . |
| 7 | I brought the Ford to a halt only a foot or two from the fowl , which in turn ceased its journey , pausing there in the road in front of me . |
| 8 | Donning the mantle : Andrew McKinnon began his career in the theatre 20 years ago at Perth , training there in the early days of Joan Knight 's reign |
| 9 | In view of the vast size of Siberia , the relatively small numbers of Russians operating there in the seventeenth century , and the difficulty of carrying out a census of a mobile population , it seems likely that these figures somewhat underestimate the number of indigenous Siberians before the Russian conquest . |
| 10 | Although there was no hospital in the northern part of the town , where forces loyal to Mahdi Mohammed were concentrated , a surgical team sent by the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) began operating there in the first week of December . |
| 11 | Leaving the punchbowl lying there for the clearup people to find in the morning , Wayne followed her . |
| 12 | The letters lying there on the mat did n't exactly look as though if I did n't open them the world would stop . |
| 13 | ‘ We ran out and he was just lying there on the ground . |
| 14 | ‘ I just saw the box of cigarettes lying there on the table , and everybody else smoking , and I just knew inside me with absolute certainty that I should smoke , too . |
| 15 | All the time his eyes were laughing down at her and she suddenly flushed when she realised how she must look , lying there on the grass . |
| 16 | Lying there on the floor , cords biting into wrists and ankles , they heard Maureen screaming with terror and agony . |
| 17 | I liked just lying there after the antenatal classes , holding my lump and feeling the baby move gently . |
| 18 | I got a good look at it though while Murchison had it in his hands and then when it was lying there in the water just looking up at us all . |
| 19 | It 's lying there in the straw . ’ |
| 20 | But lying there in the dunes he had n't known what he knew now , that he had another and very different appointment to keep on Sunday , September the twenty-fifth . |
| 21 | One of his legs was shattered by shrapnel and lying there in the burning sun he prayed to God , ‘ Please God , accept my three wishes — Please send down St. David — you know , we in Wales have tremendous faith in St. David ’ . ’ |
| 22 | Anyway , that was the other thing , it was raining so hard , rattling at the windowpane in the dark … even so , I was convinced I 'd heard something , and at that hour there 's nobody else up except the baker , and he 's over here on this side of the Piazza , so I got up to take a look and saw this girl lying there in the rain . |
| 23 | While the woman was lying there in the mortuary unconscious , a crossing sweeper happened to notice a faint movement in this supposed corpse . |
| 24 | The mysterious Fox — I was more certain than ever that he was Special Branch now — that wretched young woman lying there in the mortuary , and I remembered my unease when she 'd told me how she had returned that file at the Records Office . |
| 25 | These were now waiting there with the six Somalls Omar had engaged as our camel men . |
| 26 | Murphy wanted her to stay by the first fire of the autumn and be waiting there with the tea table , as Aunt Emily had always done ; but he knew , after just over two months of Alexandra 's rule , that it was pointless even to look his disapproval . |
| 27 | Sometimes , he said we used to take them motorway he said to junction whatever at Dover and they 'd be somebody waiting there with the money give us the car we 'd go back to London and they 'd just take it up the . |
| 28 | As a Queen waiting there with the silvery hair . |
| 29 | As a Queen waiting there with the silvery hair . |
| 30 | In your letter dated Tue , 18 Jan 94 10:25:54 MET , you wrote : If I thought Wilko was going there with the intent to win I might feel a little happier , but with the form as it is I think we 'll wind up in one of those boring 1–0 or 2–0 defeats where nothing exciting happens in the game . |