Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] there [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was his intention to aid Larsen in evacuating the kids from the upper levels , before they became trapped there by the fire . |
| 2 | From an early age , his mother and father showed him the illustrated books on the subject which they had brought back from London , and described at length the wonders of the ballets they had seen danced there by the Diaghilev company , ‘ when they were young and in love ’ , as John put it later . |
| 3 | Today 's farewell party brought together staff who 'd worked there during the Second World War . |
| 4 | She 'd stood there at the door where he was such a short time before . |
| 5 | The problem here is , if , if , if , if , the , what 's , what 's happened is if , if that , if anything gets bought there in the practice , that then is taken out of our remunerations , so if we spend six hundred pounds on the stuff in the prac in , in , in the reception area |
| 6 | Of course , I shall be able to gloat , having got there before the rest of the media ! |
| 7 | But Cassie strongly suspected that Johnny would have got there in the end , without any help from Bella . |
| 8 | I could n't have stayed there with the baby . |
| 9 | She should never have gone there in the first place . |
| 10 | And then I did something even more stupid than the having gone there in the first place . |
| 11 | And if I had any sense I would never have left there in the first place . ’ |
| 12 | I could have stood there on the hillside and quoted the whole of Mark Antony 's speech in modern everyday English from beginning to end . |
| 13 | And having arrived in Zurich , or having returned there at the end of a tour round north Switzerland , visitors will probably want to spend a little time in a city about which they have heard so much . |
| 14 | He had withdrawn there on the advice of several people ( including myself ) that Downing Street was an impossible place for anyone whose curiosity extended to seeing every telegram that came in at whatever time of the day or night . |
| 15 | The night before , Kalchu and Sigarup went to the shrine , lit the oil lamp and tied two strips of new cloth — one red , one white — on to the rafters among the hundreds of old and blackened ones that had gathered there over the years . |
| 16 | A bitter personal feud had developed there between the two eminent classics professors , Otto Jahn ( like Nietzsche from Pforta ) and Friedrich Ritschl ; and in 1865 Ritschl left , followed by some of his students , to take up a post at the University of Leipzig . |
| 17 | Cliff 's contribution to the Palace cause would have been worth recording if it had stopped there at the end of 1962–63 , with Palace safely in mid-table but , twelve months later , and courtesy of 20 goals from the big man himself , we were back in Division Two after an absence of 39 years . |
| 18 | For while the Berkeley geomagnetists walked the road to Jaramillo other scientists had travelled there on the power of imagination . |
| 19 | But he also knew it had been destroyed ; like Lebanon and the 40,000 who had died there over the previous 17 months . |
| 20 | We 've got there in the lead . |
| 21 | It was small and poky , the carpet stank of sweat from all the bands that had rehearsed there over the years , the floor was rotten and covered with fungus More unpleasant smells came from the toilet that did n't work and the leaking skylight which let in so much rain the whole place was always damp . |
| 22 | Sand had drifted into the hallway on the ground floor where a one-eyed watchman , who remembered the names of all the English officers who had stayed there during the war , lived beneath the stairs . |
| 23 | I remember my excitement when I had arrived there for the first time from St Aubyn 's . |
| 24 | The two vessels had laid there off the Navy Yard all that morning . |
| 25 | One which I 've defined there with the word views . |
| 26 | Thus , the first book we know of printed in Norwich was in Dutch , for the benefit of the refugees who had fled there from the persecutions of the Duke of Alva in the Netherlands . |
| 27 | He achieved a double figure percentage of the vote only in Mississippi , and scored a derisory 9 per cent in his home state , compared with the 39 per cent which he had achieved there in the November 1991 gubernatorial contest . |
| 28 | The Rossmaynes had lived there since the sixteenth century , the house stubbornly resisting the elements which tried to erode its walls . |
| 29 | My destination was Welcombe in North Devon , a place introduced to me by Nigel , who had lived there during the early part of the war . |
| 30 | As they walked through the lamplight of the Ropewalk , Maxim noticed a small incised plaque to Lord Macaulay , who had lived there in the 1840s . |