Example sentences of "[verb] there [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Bukharin 's ideas were not formed solely by what was currently happening in Soviet Russia ; rather he viewed what was happening there as a part of a much larger upheaval on a world scale . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Most residents of homes for the elderly are in their eighties and have come there towards the end of an active life . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Springfield were the first band Young formed when he came to California , driving there in a hearse all the way from Canada . |
| 7 | They were left on the car park , so people knew they were parked there for the night . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For more and more she is coming to resemble a mechanical praying mantis , frozen there in the glass , he wrote . |
| 10 | Jasper , the Tour something , ca n't remember what , stands there without a trace of sheepiness . |
| 11 | Details of some of these strategies , and others , are discussed fully in Part Two ( chapters 4 to 6 ) but since not all are considered there from an accountability perspective , they need some introduction here . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Not only was she sports captain she was also elected head girl in her final year at school , voted there by the pupils and the staff . |
| 14 | but David 's sat there at the minute in the background . |
| 15 | Well you know , she was just sat there in the chair and they said that they |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Over there they have lots of servants , and her mother asks me if I would like to work there for a year , looking after Charlotte , so that Nicola could come and stay with them . |
| 18 | It has been possible for her to work there within the family environment , which stimulates not only her own creativity but that of others . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | Solemn to stand there in the pollen light |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He had decided to leave Alston and Thesiger there with the wireless truck to observe any activity in the fortifications . |
| 24 | If one knows this bridge , it also puts one ‘ in the picture ’ suspended there over the Thames . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Ships docking at Amnisos could well have found themselves trapped there by a north wind , just as Odysseus claimed he was . |
| 27 | It was his intention to aid Larsen in evacuating the kids from the upper levels , before they became trapped there by the fire . |
| 28 | I stared stupidly at the bag in my hand as if it had just been dropped there from a helicopter . |
| 29 | He had been dropped there in a sack . |
| 30 | Yes he had booked there for a week , I think it was for a business meeting with Mr Sandy , that 's all I know . |