Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] there [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They asked me to go there for an interview , and from that they recommended a therapist who would see me at her home . |
| 2 | I lived there as a boy and know the coal |
| 3 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 4 | And , miraculously , there was little resistance and I stared in disbelief as the great organ disappeared gloriously and wonderfully from sight I was right behind it with my arm , probing frantically away up to the shoulder as I rotated my wrist again and again till both uterine cornua were fully involuted Ben I was certain beyond doubt that everything was back in place I lay there for a few moments , my arm still deep inside the sow , my forehead resting on the floor . |
| 5 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 6 | I lay there for a minute recovering my cool and then headed for the back door . |
| 7 | The scene faded and I lay there in a limbo land between that world and this . |
| 8 | I lay there in a sort of wonderment , listening to a rich world of sound about me . |
| 9 | I sit there for a bit longer , till I finish my coffee , then I decide to go out and have a look round the station . |
| 10 | I sit there for a second thinking , No , it ca n't be … |
| 11 | I sit there with a pair of tweezers going my mum thinks you 're so fussy , and I 'm like |
| 12 | I can remember waiting some minutes before walking through the house , knowing that there must be proof of burglary at the back door , and when I got there in an uncomprehending state , lo and behold the kitchen door was broken right down ! |
| 13 | I arrived there on a planeload of Canadian oil-drillers who were several inches taller than me even without their high-heeled boots . |
| 14 | I stand there for a second , before stepping back . |
| 15 | Whatever the activity , I still see this as the old style … it 's teacher-led from that point of view in that they rely on me to start them off and I mean it 's almost as if I stand there with a gun and say ‘ Go ! ’ |
| 16 | The gear had held and I hung there for a moment , taking stock . |
| 17 | And I could put myself down as in case I get there for a day or two . |
| 18 | ‘ I flew there in a rickety old aeroplane with standing room only . |
| 19 | I wanted to check on the landing patch that I keep there on a semi-permanent lease . |
| 20 | The do that in wonderful community centre , I went there to a good function the other evening , very good fish and chips and as well . |
| 21 | I went there on a memory trip but there 's nowhere |
| 22 | And I went there for a little bit , and then we moved on , moved off from there , do you see ? |
| 23 | And then she was short of a nursing there and then I went there for a bit . |
| 24 | I went there for a week . |
| 25 | Doing Ophelia on stage before taking up the BBC contract meant that I went there with a little track record — I 'd been blooded , if you like , and it made the whole thing a lot better . |
| 26 | Er and I went there as a boy after engines and things you know , in then , do you remember them ? |
| 27 | Oh I w I went there as a young girl . |
| 28 | I live there with a man I love . |
| 29 | I thought it was the other church , the one near the market , and I waited there till a quarter to twelve , and then I realized my mistake . |
| 30 | There 's a sort of metal fence I can sit on , so I rest there for a bit and watch the ducks and that . |