Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] there [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | To me it was all familiar ( why , only a few years before I 'd danced there with a stiff-backed medical student by the name of Achille Flaubert ) . |
| 2 | She sank down on to the bed and glanced at the writing pad that she 'd tossed there after a brief effort to write to Arnie . |
| 3 | The place had belonged to a Polish woman , who 'd lived there as a child and then rented it to students for the past fifteen years . |
| 4 | By 1937 , as a result of migration from rural Kaszubia , an influx of unemployed people from nearby Elbing and Marienburg , and the large number of Jews in transit through the city who had become trapped there after a change in US immigration policy , there were about 17,000 Poles — including Kaszubians , Danzig Poles , Polish immigrants and Polish Jews — living in the urban districts . |
| 5 | Instead of walking to school as we always used to do in the olden days , even if it was a three mile journey , nearly every child of today gets taken there in a car . |
| 6 | I , too , could have sat there like a fan watching an actress , like a lover watching his beloved , content not to be thinking about Mum and what we could do about her . |
| 7 | One of his most recent expeditions was climbing in an unexplored area of Greenland , having sailed there in a yacht . |
| 8 | He came out of the clinic on 19 March having stayed there for a week longer than he had anticipated , and was once again forced to rest . |
| 9 | I must have stood there for a couple of hours , getting more and more fed up as my imagination worked overtime . |
| 10 | Yes he had booked there for a week , I think it was for a business meeting with Mr Sandy , that 's all I know . |
| 11 | If the body had come there as a result of a crime that took place on the river , then the River Police with their specialised knowledge of tides and shipping were the obvious people to investigate it . |
| 12 | It was almost as though he had grown there like a vile fungus on the dead timber . |
| 13 | No dog , he noticed , but Cara 's son , the silent child who had always made him feel so ill at ease , still sitting by the hearth as if he had grown there from a morose three-year-old into a clean and tidy , almost dandified five . |
| 14 | While France was content for Germany to remain divided , it was concerned about its new neighbour , the Federal Republic of West Germany , not least about the rapid economic growth that had occurred there after a major currency reform in 1948 . |
| 15 | Yes , Devlin had worked there for a while , but he 'd left three days ago . |
| 16 | Like Jos , her brother had worked there as a boy . |
| 17 | I 've had first hand er experience of the States because I 've worked there for a couple of years . |
| 18 | On the window was a blue-and-red peacock she had stencilled there on a wet afternoon when the garden was blanked out with grey rain . |
| 19 | It was a long while since she had visited her old home , and longer still since she had lived there as a girl . |
| 20 | These neighbours had lived there for a number of years ; they knew Mrs Browning well , and what they told my husband made us feel rather small , and very inexperienced . |
| 21 | The first was occupied by Miss Trimby , the last of a family that had lived there for a long time whilst her neighbours were Mr. & Mrs. Collins with their middle-aged bachelor son . |
| 22 | However , there were two big differences : Whites had more in privately rented accommodation and had lived there for a shorter time ; these areas contained only 6 per cent . |
| 23 | After we had lived there for a few years , we wanted to buy it and do it up , so we asked my College for a mortgage . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , prior to our moving in , 27 cats had lived there with a professor of history and his wife who were a little eccentric . |
| 25 | She had stood there like a damsel in a high tower , imprisoned by her own fears , and had said imperiously , ‘ Here I am . |
| 26 | Knowing it impossible to sleep again , she had lain there for a while and listened to the silence of sleep throughout the house . |
| 27 | It stayed poised there for a moment and another question , another proclamation of innocence , then he brought it down ready to drive into the small man 's stomach again . |
| 28 | they made the area around the reactor a non living area , the problem is of course people that have lived there for a long time do n't want to move and so over |