Example sentences of "[verb] there in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Springfield were the first band Young formed when he came to California , driving there in a hearse all the way from Canada . |
| 2 | He had been dropped there in a sack . |
| 3 | One of his most recent expeditions was climbing in an unexplored area of Greenland , having sailed there in a yacht . |
| 4 | Most seemed to know what one should do there in a variety of situations in order to be an accepted member . |
| 5 | And white gloves with a tunic of silvery mail , lying there in a tent that was empty but for himself and Klakkr . |
| 6 | ‘ She 's been lying there in a state of collapse , and not a soul has been next or nigh her ! ’ |
| 7 | In females it generally consists of a group of stout bristles which lies beneath the extended fore Wing and engages there in a retinaculum formed from a patch of hairs near the cubitus . |
| 8 | It was at Ariel 's insistence that she was buried there in a cenote , the kind of grave the islanders reserved for their prophets , and Kit had yielded to her , even though it was well inside the stockade . |
| 9 | It 's an accident on the M Six , and er now if you look there in a moment you 'll see a car come out of control up through there . |
| 10 | It collected there in a stone hollow , fell down over moss . |
| 11 | I threw my bag into Armstrong 's boot and checked the sleeping-bag I always kept there in a polythene bag . |
| 12 | Moreover , Dorothy 's Englishness was centuries old : among her cousins was one Charles Talbot — ‘ one of the Shakespear names ’ , she said — who owned a medieval abbey , ‘ and once Ezra and I crawled over the roof in a turret to see a copy of the Magna Charta , kept there in a glass case ’ . |
| 13 | If he took the short cut across the beck , he would arrive there in a fraction of the time . |
| 14 | Oh you have to got there in a minute . |
| 15 | I lay there in a sort of wonderment , listening to a rich world of sound about me . |
| 16 | The scene faded and I lay there in a limbo land between that world and this . |
| 17 | Staunin' there in a kilt — an' ( splutters ) a Harris tweed jaikit with dung all ower his wellies sayin' name yir poison . |
| 18 | The mountain peaks of Christian belief are travelled there in a style that has few rivals in the whole history of the church , and none at all in the twentieth century . |
| 19 | Grandmother lived there in a house that looked over the water , but she 's dead now . ’ |
| 20 | They will remain there in a state of torpor , patiently awaiting the return of the rains . |
| 21 | Might get there in a minute but I think these are going to go on the floor in a minute . |
| 22 | I do n't know if they 're laughing all the way to the bank , but they can certainly afford to get there in a cab . |
| 23 | Watching through the window , Lucy saw him make his way towards the wool shed , his strides long , as though he wished to get there in a hurry . |
| 24 | A solitary figure standing there in a trench coat under one of the street lamps ? |
| 25 | Well when they 're just standing there in a vest and shorts then there is n't much else to look at is there , really ? |
| 26 | They were due to meet a Bradman XI at Bowral the day after South Africa were playing there in a World Cup warm-up match . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The grypesh swam out after them , and there were battles fought there in a welter of blood and foam . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd be on the beach sunbathing and he 'd be sitting there in a suit , collar and tie and black shoes . |
| 30 | A man stood there in a dressing gown . |