Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] there [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we do n't locate and interview every inmate detained there at that time , we 'll be accused of some sort of cover-up . ’ |
| 2 | This was unsuccessful , but fighting continued there for some time . |
| 3 | is n't it , oh yes perfectly harmless no malice meant there at all but you try and convince somebody of that . |
| 4 | At the same time Miss Butterworth was employing women at the Flax Home Industry House at Grasmere and work continued there for many years . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | Look , I appreciate the use of the bathroom , but that damn well does n't give you the right to stand there with that superior look on your face , lecturing me as if I were a child . ’ |
| 7 | In the spring , vast masses of frogs ' spawn floated just beneath the surface , like submerged chain-mail cast there by some passing knight . |
| 8 | Prentice opened it and wedged it open with a rusted chunk of iron left there for that purpose . |
| 9 | But then , it had n't really been her choice to go there at all . |
| 10 | The firm traded there for many years and a number of well-known craftsmen served their apprenticeships at the works . |
| 11 | The reply was a flabbergasted burble followed by a desperate plea to get there at any cost : ‘ The press are expecting — I mean , the TV cameras and everything — please , look , we 'll give you a room to lie down in , anything , if you could just — ’ |
| 12 | The raw little syllable sits there in all its nakedness . |
| 13 | She catches quarter nine bus to get there for half nine , quarter to ten . |
| 14 | If the right foot remains there for several bars , the arms will be held still , but as soon as the left moves in front the arms will change . |
| 15 | and that there is no other regular ministry held there by any other denomination of Christians whereby any adequate surveillance might be held over the moral and religious state of the community , and that consequently the sins of intemperance , Sabbath desecration , and the other vices that follow in their train have become sadly prevalent and daily increasing . |
| 16 | Han Ch'in 's death lay there in that silence ; cold , heavy , unmentionable : a dark stone of grief in the guts of each that neither had managed to pass . |