Example sentences of "[v-ing] there [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was acquired in the early ‘ twenties by the Noyce family and they continued trading there for the next sixty years . |
| 2 | Donning the mantle : Andrew McKinnon began his career in the theatre 20 years ago at Perth , training there in the early days of Joan Knight 's reign |
| 3 | Although there was no hospital in the northern part of the town , where forces loyal to Mahdi Mohammed were concentrated , a surgical team sent by the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) began operating there in the first week of December . |
| 4 | In view of the vast size of Siberia , the relatively small numbers of Russians operating there in the seventeenth century , and the difficulty of carrying out a census of a mobile population , it seems likely that these figures somewhat underestimate the number of indigenous Siberians before the Russian conquest . |
| 5 | I liked just lying there after the antenatal classes , holding my lump and feeling the baby move gently . |
| 6 | One of his legs was shattered by shrapnel and lying there in the burning sun he prayed to God , ‘ Please God , accept my three wishes — Please send down St. David — you know , we in Wales have tremendous faith in St. David ’ . ’ |
| 7 | As a Queen waiting there with the silvery hair . |
| 8 | As a Queen waiting there with the silvery hair . |
| 9 | These were now waiting there with the six Somalls Omar had engaged as our camel men . |
| 10 | Do n't know why you 're going there in the first place . |
| 11 | Alighting upon the bonnet ( hood , if you are American ) , in full view through the windscreen , it opened its wings to their fullest extent , remaining there before the grateful gaze of this gentle man who walked with God and loved the creatures of His natural world . |
| 12 | we 're getting there at the right time |
| 13 | Getting there by the orthodox method of a succession of highly unreliable inter-island launches was a sufficiently bad experience , they claimed , let alone making the journey with the Bugis . |
| 14 | If there is any doubt about getting there in the worst circumstances , it is better to get down short in any open space ahead and risk rolling into the hedge . |
| 15 | Their small mission accomplished , Tennyson and Hallam sank back to being tourists , and Tennyson never forgot the scenery around Cauterets , which he associated for the rest of his long life with the happiness he had felt when travelling there with the beloved but now dead Hallam . |
| 16 | Will Carling , the captain of England , is travelling there for the first time and the selectors decided not to weigh him down with the cares of office . |
| 17 | I could see her face now , Mum 's face , eyeshadow and lipstick perfect as always , struggling there in the thick slimy mud — gasping , sinking … |
| 18 | It was Lee , standing there with the pink blanket , the string bag and the hot water bottle . |
| 19 | What does it mean , standing there in the empty room , bigger than a man ? |
| 20 | This is what strikes fear into the hearts of all but the most experienced , and has men playing there for the first time knocking at the knees . |
| 21 | She was sitting there with the pink blanket spread over her , the hot water-bottle on her ankles . |
| 22 | was utterly peaceful , sitting there in the hot sun with the scent of thyme around me and a view of distant Hymettos over the tiled roofs of Athens . |
| 23 | I was still sitting there in the early evening , staring out to sea when a young forestry worker from the town found me . |
| 24 | Time went by until a whole hour had passed but it was restful sitting there in the homely room with its smell of damp wool . |
| 25 | Well I was between sixteen and seventeen because I think I started r er working there in the mid Summer or or m early Spring of twenty seven , and worked there through that period , all through nineteen twenty eight , then I emigrated to the United States in nineteen twenty nine . |