Example sentences of "[vb past] there [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter 's delight and enthusiasm were such that he insisted that Nicholas should be sent to study at Oxford University and maintained there at the royal charge ; but a month later the youth died , on his twentieth birthday . |
| 2 | She remembers Guildford with affection — since she trained there as a young actress in the 1950s . |
| 3 | Particular attention is being paid to the major Indian rebellions which occurred there in the late colonial period ( 1780 and 1814 ) , to the role of southern Peru in the overthrow of Spanish rule ( in 1824 ) , and to political , social , and economic developments in the first three decades after independence . |
| 4 | Ron and Pat Woolley , of Rhyl , recently took a huge lorry-load of medical supplies , equipment and clothes to the Klaipicla Children 's Hospital in Lithuania after being shocked by the conditions they found there during a previous visit . |
| 5 | Nothing moved there except the few blackheaded gulls wheeling and crying above the river . |
| 6 | Our intention was to reside half the year at Southall , and the remainder in London , and I remember we moved there on the 26th June , 1830 … |
| 7 | Every poor family that moved there from the crowded east of Brazil was to have about 100 ha and a small house . |
| 8 | You you mentioned there about the old market . |
| 9 | Then finally , Paul Reichmann saw the opportunity he had been waiting for in London , a city he fondly recalled from the days when he studied there as a young man . |
| 10 | Its students , from as far away as Java , Sumatra , Korea , China and Japan included Hsuang Tsang , the Chinese traveller who studied there in the seventh century . |
| 11 | At weekends we cycled there under the hot sun in the early afternoon , not minding the heat at all because we knew that as soon as we arrived the cool water would welcome us . |
| 12 | It had been built when Alphonse Mobuto first came to power and quickly became known throughout the country as La Boucherie , the Butcher 's Shop , because of the number of anti-government dissidents who were tortured then murdered there by the feared and hated Security Police . |
| 13 | Leading a band of forty-five lodges up the Valley of Winding Waters in the summer of 1875 , Joseph found two companies of cavalry under Captain Whipple stationed there as a peace-keeping force . |
| 14 | Behind her , the flat expanse in the centre of the roof was dominated by something that perched there like a gigantic black dragonfly . |
| 15 | I arrived there during the last day of it , and heard Dr. Bernardo pleading eloquently on behalf of the children he labours so unweariedly to rescue from the streets of our great cities , and also saw a gathering of the colporteurs gathered from the north and west , to get a word of encouragement in their laborious work of carrying pure literature into the homes of those who in numbers of instances live beyond the reach of the minister and the bookseller . |
| 16 | We arrived there on a wild morning in May , having the previous evening taken the ferry from Fishguard in Wales to Rosslare , Co Wexford , about 50 miles away . |
| 17 | I arrived there at the due time and waited and waited , but no corporal appeared . |
| 18 | She began there in the Seventies on Greene Street , where she opened a multi-discipline art and performance space . |
| 19 | The question hung there in the cool air of the mountainside , the whole world seemingly silent and listening . |
| 20 | His advocacy of the ideas of the Enlightenment aroused the suspicion of the Orthodox Church leaders in Karlovci when he returned there after the Karadjordje revolt . |
| 21 | Well , actually I left school , I think it was the either tenth or eleventh of November nineteen thirty one and I went straight into the Transport Department and I think my record will show that I actually started there on the twelfth of November nineteen thirty one . |
| 22 | We started there on the twenty sixth of December , November |
| 23 | It confirmed that the preoccupations of the founders of the experiment in rural reconstruction , started there in the 1920s , remain important for their successors . |
| 24 | Last year at about this time it produced the admirable Victorian Newcastle painter Ralph Hedley ; this winter it is showing in ‘ A Romance with the North East ’ Rober and Isa ( Thompson ) Jobling , who lived and worked there until the 1920s producing powerful and poetic images of its countryside coast and people . |
| 25 | The Modernists had enjoyed a brief life as a London group after Pound settled there for a dozen years in 1908 ; Bloomsbury was already one , first in Cambridge and later in London and Sussex , sharing not just a range of assumptions and convictions but an intimate web of social and amorous relations . |
| 26 | And Dr Charles Deering , who settled there after a wandering career , said that ‘ were a naturalist in Quest of an exquisite Spot to build a Town or a City , could he meet with one that would better answer his Wishes ? ’ |
| 27 | My grandparents were Italian emigrants who settled there in the early nineteen-twenties . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I flew there in a rickety old aeroplane with standing room only . |
| 29 | A large crowd milled there despite the cold wind which lashed face and hand . |
| 30 | Murrells spent ten years in the reserve , kept there for the last few years against his will because Mitchell considered him indispensable . |