Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] there [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found it and clung there for a while , then pushed clear and knelt among the waves , head lowered . |
| 2 | Sometimes I go into a public-house and sit there with a glass of lemonade in my hand , eavesdropping , hoping to hear some treasonable conversation . |
| 3 | What luxury to go and bathe there after a day in the outdoors ! |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Many people claim that Frederick was imprisoned by the Turks , and that after his release he returned to Kaiserslautern and lived there for a long time . |
| 6 | She abandoned the half-formed thought as he went on , ‘ I was educated in England , and lived there for a number of years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When I prised her off and tried to stand her on the floor she kept rocking back and sitting on her tail , then falling over sideways and lying there like a stuffed parrot . |
| 10 | Charles continued to live with her in Cambridge , commuting by car to Ipswich to teach his classes , and staying there for a night or two each week . |
| 11 | It goes as far as it can and waits there for a while , its big eyes staring up , tantalized . |
| 12 | The drum grew louder in the final roll , the flautists blew steadily , keying up anticipation , and the rattle fell silent as Dulé took one step with his other foot and left the ground , then hand over hand into the air shinned up the free-standing ladder till he alighted at the tenth rung and hung there like a heron on a breakwater at home , it seemed to Kit , even as he asked himself in wonder , what unearthly magic 's here ? |
| 13 | One night , later in their affair , O woke up in the middle of one of his long and noisy dreams and lay there for a long time looking at Boy 's face as he slept . |
| 14 | He pushed her away , and she fell to the floor and lay there like a broken bird . |
| 15 | In contrast to some other low-income countries in Africa , most children do eventually get to primary school and stay there for a few years . |
| 16 | The saddles are neat and trim , and stay there for a week to ten days . |
| 17 | The young woodlice hatch in this pouch and stay there for a while . |
| 18 | Right now she 'd like nothing better than to climb into bed and stay there for a week , sleeping her troubles away . |
| 19 | They 're especially pleased because artists of Springsteen 's stature normally head straight for Wembley and stay there for a week . |
| 20 | The second half proved a nightmare as the visitors hit the first three baskets to take the lead for the first time and stay there for a 7670 victory . |
| 21 | That man was admitted to hospital after his fall and died there within a week without regaining consciousness . |
| 22 | I think that the idea of erm you know , rushing in to a disaster , taking the aeroplane out , and , and seeing this enormous distress around one and sitting there with a notebook and a pencil is , is unacceptable and indeed we do n't do that at all . |
| 23 | On retirement from the Army & Navy Stores I was appointed managing director of Hatchards , Piccadilly , and Miss Riley came as my secretary and continued there in a full or part time capacity for many years . |
| 24 | Still , she reached Bristol , and waited there for a ship , ‘ with plenteous tears and boisterous sobbings , with loud cryings and shrill shriekings ’ , and , although her fellow-voyagers threatened to throw her overboard , she got to Spain and back to Bristol in a month . |
| 25 | Adam closed the front door and stood there for a moment as if he could not wrench himself away . |
| 26 | Anyway , after they 'd gone , I just hobbled round to me mates and stayed there for a few weeks . |
| 27 | A statement that the buildings in Old Aberdeen are beautiful is embedded within an assertion that the speaker was recently in Old Aberdeen , and stayed there for a period , and so she has a warrant for making the statement . |
| 28 | Henry and I reached London in early October and stayed there for a few months . |
| 29 | After the closure of the prison in 1805 , Lambert reluctantly decided to exhibit himself in London , and travelled there in a specially constructed coach . |
| 30 | Mildred leapt to the floor and sat there for a moment , reflecting how nice it was to be able to jump such an amazing distance without getting hurt . |