Example sentences of "[v-ing] there [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pair of golden eagles may defend a territory of up to 16 square miles , living there in splendid detachment from the remainder of their species . |
| 2 | For at last the witch was weakened by Carmellina 's guile , and hoisted her to her feet , and pulled her over to the window and pointed down the stony path that led to one of her lair 's doors , and to the Indian fig cacti growing there in bat-eared monster shapes , and said , ‘ I 've always fancied a new little number , made to measure , of stuff woven from prickly-pear skins , bit of red for excitement , but mainly green , it 's so elegant , do n't you think , with long sleeves and a full skirt sweeping around me , with a bit of a train … . |
| 3 | Ali and Mohammed discussed the possibility of staying there with subsequent trekking parties . |
| 4 | But the difficulty of getting there by public transport is a real problem . |
| 5 | If only she could see the good work they are doing there among young people . |
| 6 | Just standing there like big kids . |
| 7 | Some chairs had been arranged on the platform and two senior officers were sitting there with bland smiles like judges at a beauty competition . |
| 8 | But you must be , or you must become , very much your own men and women because newspapers everywhere and all the other parts of the media are only , are just sitting there with baited breath aching for that phone to ring from you , to tell us things , because virtually anything which you get involved in , is likely in one way or another to be controversial . |
| 9 | She imagined that they were sitting there on opposite sides of the little table they used when they were alone . |
| 10 | And one is full of meat , tons of the stuff — ribs of beef and saddles of lamb , sitting there in cool silence , waiting their turn upon the table . |
| 11 | Neither she nor Aunt Tossie , sitting there in dignified order , could foresee that the memory to be implanted would not be of the rare perfection of each course , but of a social mishap , a horror that would engross unbelieving attention and sear its recollection , like a scar , into Nicandra 's loving . |
| 12 | Sittin' there from early afternoon till the church closed at night . ’ |