Example sentences of "[verb] there [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knelt there in the darkness , listening to the sounds of the subsiding passion in the room below , then swivelled silently and with even greater care than before , and feeling far more sober , moved back towards the thin , escaping light at the far end of the chill , cramped roof space . |
| 2 | Most residents of homes for the elderly are in their eighties and have come there towards the end of an active life . |
| 3 | Traders buying nutmegs and doves from Arabian merchants had been aware of their existence for centuries ; Marco Polo knew roughly where they were , for he saw junk traffic in the ports of Cathay loaded down with spices and manned by suntanned crews who had clearly come there from the south . |
| 4 | They were left on the car park , so people knew they were parked there for the night . |
| 5 | To know with certainty whether one 's life had been considered good or bad would be a comfort , but even more satisfying would be to find there in the book the answers to the little unsolved mysteries of everyday life ; to read what really happened clearly and truly , like a watchmaker who opens the little door in the front of a grandfather clock and looks inside . |
| 6 | For more and more she is coming to resemble a mechanical praying mantis , frozen there in the glass , he wrote . |
| 7 | But you see what we 've got here is this problem of the old definition of quality , still lurking there in the mind , quality is a degree of excellence , therefore you have high quality and low quality . |
| 8 | but David 's sat there at the minute in the background . |
| 9 | Well you know , she was just sat there in the chair and they said that they |
| 10 | It has been possible for her to work there within the family environment , which stimulates not only her own creativity but that of others . |
| 11 | Martin Martin notes that on a small rocky island to the south of Skye there is ‘ a great quantity of scurvey-grass , of an extraordinary size , and very thick ; the natives eat it frequently , as well boiled as raw : two of them told me that they happened to be confined there for the space of thirty hours , by a contrary wind ; and being without victuals , fell to eating this scurvey-grass , and finding it of a sweet taste , far different from the land scurvey-grass , they ate a large basketful of it , which did abundantly satisfy their appetites until their return home ’ . |
| 12 | Solemn to stand there in the pollen light |
| 13 | When I eventually reached the gods I hesitated , afraid to push the door open , but after a couple of minutes I became too frightened to stand there in the dark any longer . |
| 14 | When Coffin got back to his own flat , all he found there in the way of post was an enigmatic postcard from his sister Laetitia : she had sent him a view of Edinburgh from the air , with a message scribbled on the back : I am going to the law . |
| 15 | He had decided to leave Alston and Thesiger there with the wireless truck to observe any activity in the fortifications . |
| 16 | It was his intention to aid Larsen in evacuating the kids from the upper levels , before they became trapped there by the fire . |
| 17 | My father still lives there in the house where I grew up . ’ |
| 18 | He lies there in the peeling pyramid of the attic bedroom , on his cot shaped like a gutter . |
| 19 | She lies there in the dark , with her eyes open , keeping watch . |
| 20 | Jane and children plan to fly out to Cape Town when the boats dock there at the end of the third leg in April . |
| 21 | But erm I stopped there till the war was finished and then er I went back to the Lock and as asked them if th there was any chance of coming back to work there , you know , cos and er they said oh yes , as long as you like . |
| 22 | I 've had some armchairs brought in and put there at the window in case you want to talk to people more informally than around the table . ’ |
| 23 | In recent months the residents of the area around the bar had been complaining almost nightly to the police about the noise that went on until the small hours and about the hypodermics left strewn around the piazza , a serious health hazard to the children who played there during the day . |
| 24 | A thorough examination of all the available hearth tax returns on a county basis will enable him to identify which parishes had someone with the appropriate surname living there during the reign of Charles II . |
| 25 | I brought the Ford to a halt only a foot or two from the fowl , which in turn ceased its journey , pausing there in the road in front of me . |
| 26 | They spread there from the area of the Aegean at about the same time as the Israelite tribes themselves moved into the land from the east . |
| 27 | In recent years , ex-students have achieved rapid prominence : Ian Davenport , Fiona Rae and Damien Hirst were shortlisted for the Turner Prize in the last two years , while enough of the young neo-conceptual artists dominating the scene ( represented in the Saatchi Collection ; for instance ) studied there for the style to be referred to as ‘ the Goldsmiths ’ phenomenon ’ . |
| 28 | I would like to ask the convenor , with relation to one three on page three hundred and forty concerning the Christian ideal of marriage why not mention is menti is made there of the importance of the family worshipping and praying together . |
| 29 | The first cone was melted to a puddle , the second was bending in obeisance to the blaze — as I felt myself to be , stooped there before the kiln , wanting to gaze and gaze , but the vision was barely supportable . |
| 30 | we 're gon na have to have a manual involvement or override there by the project coordinator to , to , |