Example sentences of "[vb base] there [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even by the 1980s , seminar teaching had found little hold there despite a decreasing proportion of staff to students . |
| 2 | His earliest patron was Hubert Walter , later archbishop of Canterbury [ q.v. ] , a fellow native of West Dereham and founder there of a Premonstratensian abbey whose charters are witnessed by Master Elias , perhaps as early as 1188 . |
| 3 | You sit there , then you get up and you walk to one end of your cell , which is n't very far , stand there for a little while , then you walk back , look out the window , and all the thoughts go through your mind — I could be out there , your children , friends , what you 'd be doing if you was out there . |
| 4 | The peninsula is peaceful and pretty now , and many go there for a gentle but gastronomic tour . |
| 5 | Go there on a false errand . |
| 6 | I wanted to check on the landing patch that I keep there on a semi-permanent lease . |
| 7 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 8 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 9 | She stared in horror at the whitened , frozen cadavers which lay there under a tattered , canvas sheet . |
| 10 | A diver absorbing excessive nitrogen must ascend to a designated depth to reduce the pressure and remain there for a specified time for what is known as a ‘ decompression stop . ’ |