Example sentences of "[vb past] there [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knelt there in the darkness , listening to the sounds of the subsiding passion in the room below , then swivelled silently and with even greater care than before , and feeling far more sober , moved back towards the thin , escaping light at the far end of the chill , cramped roof space . |
| 2 | When Coffin got back to his own flat , all he found there in the way of post was an enigmatic postcard from his sister Laetitia : she had sent him a view of Edinburgh from the air , with a message scribbled on the back : I am going to the law . |
| 3 | But erm I stopped there till the war was finished and then er I went back to the Lock and as asked them if th there was any chance of coming back to work there , you know , cos and er they said oh yes , as long as you like . |
| 4 | In recent months the residents of the area around the bar had been complaining almost nightly to the police about the noise that went on until the small hours and about the hypodermics left strewn around the piazza , a serious health hazard to the children who played there during the day . |
| 5 | In recent years , ex-students have achieved rapid prominence : Ian Davenport , Fiona Rae and Damien Hirst were shortlisted for the Turner Prize in the last two years , while enough of the young neo-conceptual artists dominating the scene ( represented in the Saatchi Collection ; for instance ) studied there for the style to be referred to as ‘ the Goldsmiths ’ phenomenon ’ . |
| 6 | The first cone was melted to a puddle , the second was bending in obeisance to the blaze — as I felt myself to be , stooped there before the kiln , wanting to gaze and gaze , but the vision was barely supportable . |
| 7 | Colin was brought there by Dickon and Mary nearly every day , and he saw all the changes that happened there during the spring and early summer . |
| 8 | I knew only that they happened there in the darkness and only a few feet from the pavements . |
| 9 | Suffragette Emily Davidson , who was to throw herself under the King 's horse at the Derby in 1913 , hid there during the census of 1911 , to protest for Women 's Rights . |
| 10 | Later , the vogue for the now growing town was consolidated and much expanded by Dr Alexander Taylor , who recuperated there from the typhus he had caught serving with the sottish , mutinous and incompetent ‘ Spanish Legion ’ sent from England to help the Queen of Spain in her war against the Car lists of Navarre . |
| 11 | She had climbed the seventy-nine steps to the top of the tower and rested there beside the cupola . |
| 12 | He found a scene effectively unchanged since the rubber-seekers first arrived there at the turn of the century . |
| 13 | The clay that is damming up pools in stream B arrived there in the form of dust crystals blown from stream A. Eventually , the pools of stream B will dry up and make dust , which will infect streams F and P. With respect to the source of their dam-making clay , we can arrange streams into ‘ family trees ’ . |
| 14 | The trust has received letters of support from Americans who served there during the war and hopes much of the money can be raised in the United States . |
| 15 | Death walked there in the sunlight . |
| 16 | Part of the time it just hung there in the water , not even the tip of a fin moving . |
| 17 | They hung there in the sky like faces of fire looking down on the island , like something waiting . |
| 18 | One hundred and eighteen for three , which means thirty-nine runs added in the first hour today and it 's Tufnell coming up now to bowl , DaSilva , up he comes , bowls this one , DaSilva pushes forward and it just goes under the bat and fielded there by the wicketkeeper , no run . |
| 19 | The Russians had withdrawn from the southern to the northern side of the harbour , but survived there until the end of the war . |
| 20 | when we first started there on the course itself , typists first time we got into the erm it was the twenty sixth of erm of December . |
| 21 | it 's amazing , that there was nine people who worked there at the time of the war . |
| 22 | His father Arthur , who had played for Blackburn Rovers , Derby County and Portsmouth , worked there at the time . |
| 23 | And they 've already received support from Americans who worked there during the war . |
| 24 | When did you actually go back to when did you you worked there after the war for a while did you ? |
| 25 | But the sheaf was always cut The last sheaf was cut then it was er put in the barn and kept there for the year and |
| 26 | She fell and lay there on the floor , her legs kicking impotently . |
| 27 | It lay there on the mat inside the door . |
| 28 | The boy was sitting up , watching him , his dark , over-large eyes puzzling over the shapes that lay there on the cloth . |
| 29 | If he lay there until the morning , assuming he did not pass out , or drown , or spew up and choke to death in the meantime , he would be found when the boys came in to wash ; the humiliation would be unbearable and the whole story would be all over the school by breakfast . |
| 30 | There was not an object on that table that was without its history of contention ; every implement lay there in the pride of hideous superiority . |