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 | Every poor family that moved there from the crowded east of Brazil was to have about 100 ha and a small house . |
| 6 | You you mentioned there about the old market . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Behind her , the flat expanse in the centre of the roof was dominated by something that perched there like a gigantic black dragonfly . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I arrived there at the due time and waited and waited , but no corporal appeared . |
| 14 | The question hung there in the cool air of the mountainside , the whole world seemingly silent and listening . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ? ’ |
| 17 | My grandparents were Italian emigrants who settled there in the early nineteen-twenties . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I flew there in a rickety old aeroplane with standing room only . |
| 19 | A large crowd milled there despite the cold wind which lashed face and hand . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Cursing and gasping , he lay there for a full five minutes , the surprisingly intact fish by his side . |
| 22 | It lay there on the dry cracked mud below the high water mark , waiting for the next tide to wet its bottom . |
| 23 | She lay there in the faint moonlit darkness , her face wet from crying , her pulse-rate frantic , completely disorientated for a few seconds . |
| 24 | He pushed her away , and she fell to the floor and lay there like a broken bird . |
| 25 | Oh I w I went there as a young girl . |
| 26 | The do that in wonderful community centre , I went there to a good function the other evening , very good fish and chips and as well . |
| 27 | There were a lot of people there who felt seriously about what they were fighting for but people went there for a good fight really , they had n't been able to show any aggression for the last two years . |
| 28 | And I went there for a little bit , and then we moved on , moved off from there , do you see ? |
| 29 | ‘ Then one night Hugo and Jebb ( The Mouse 's twanging Boothby twins ) went there for a quiet beer and the DJ was going , ‘ I 've heard that a couple of Jacob 's Mouse are here and I want to tell them to get off their high horse and come down to play here . |
| 30 | We went there with a new cloth on the drum , as near as could be ; and when we come away there was n't a piece of it no bigger than your hand . |