Example sentences of "[verb] there [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was instituted there on 3 May 1631 and served for several years . |
| 2 | In chartered helicopters they hovered over the empty stretch of road between Fenny Stratford and Buckingham to photograph the bare tarmac and the last few barriers and police cars parked there at first light . |
| 3 | Katherine Parr , the widow of Henry VIII , saw out her last years at Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire , dying there on 5 September 1548 . |
| 4 | Off Coleshill Road , north of the city centre , is a short street called Cash 's Lane , named after the Cash brothers , John and Joseph , who built there in 1857 Cash 's ‘ Top Shops ’ . |
| 5 | But by looking at this document here , it would appear there 's been more violence committed there against lawful pickets and yet that does n't make the national press . |
| 6 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 7 | Late one evening in 1958 Alfred Cobban telephoned me to see if I would consider going to Cumberland Lodge , in Windsor Great Park , to work there for three years as Director of Studies . |
| 8 | ‘ We talked of the extraordinary fact of Lady Grange 's being sent to St Kilda , and confined there for several years , without any means of relief . ’ |
| 9 | Edward continued to stand there for another minute or two . |
| 10 | My father had proceeded to stand there for some moments , saying nothing , merely holding open the door . |
| 11 | Another casualty of this bombing raid was the Royal West of England School for the Deaf at Exeter , which at that time had seemed a safe haven , not only for the children of the area the school served , but also for the 52 children and staff of the Anerley School for the Deaf , London , who had been evacuated there on 14th September 1939 . |
| 12 | She moved there with French husband and , after failing to persuade the French authorities to accept her English teaching qualifications , she has pursued a career as a bilingual secretary , joining Courtaulds seven years ago . |
| 13 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 14 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
| 15 | My grandmother , right , had a back to back No listen , this is funny , she lived in a tenement in er which is n't there anymore actually just up by the river , up by the Angel , and there was nine people living there in two rooms and they had a lodger and the lodger , so they did have |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She studied there for three years with Frederick Brown and Henry Tonks [ qq.v. ] , winning a certificate for figure drawing ( 1896–7 ) and the Melvill Nettleship prize for figure composition ( 1897–8 ) . |
| 18 | The Henderson Collection will be exhibited there from 12 December 1992–22 February 1993 , accompanied by a modest catalogue with an overview of Korean ceramics , illustrated with Henderson objects . |
| 19 | Cleveleys has always been an important destination on the Blackpool and Fleetwood line , with an intermediate service operating there from earliest Company days . |
| 20 | Are women welcome there with open arms ? |
| 21 | Some species will swim there for two seasons , others for up to five . |
| 22 | She gave a shaky little laugh , holding out her skinny forearm to display the number written there in blue biro . |
| 23 | the desolate home of Miss Havisham for which CD 's original was the picturesque old Elizabethan mansion in Rochester known as Restoration House in honour of the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 , the king having lodged there for one night en route for London . |
| 24 | For the current purpose , demonstrating that they were different is sufficient to illustrate two main points : that understanding a place involves uncovering the multivariate and inter-related nature of its culture , for which the three components of the schema in chapter 3 provide a valuable framework ; and that without understanding the nature of a place in all its complexity , it is difficult to appreciate what happens there during particular events — simple , monocausal explanations ( often located in the sphere of production ) are usually insufficient . |
| 25 | of places that they can not fill because miners have already been moved there from other pits . |
| 26 | The largest concentration occurs fairly consistently in Chichester Harbour , where flocks of 40 to 60 birds have been annual since 1947 ; 130 were seen there on 18 December 1954 , the largest flock yet noted in the county , and there were 97 on 4 December 1971 . |
| 27 | You are just lying there with these people washing , dressing and at the same time inflicting pain on you . |
| 28 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
| 29 | And the great thing is they 've taken that opportunity and erm thankfully we are still lying there in second place . |
| 30 | How could I not be when I thought of Mum Lying there in that bed day after day , completely wrecked by Dad having run off with another woman ? |