Example sentences of "[vb past] there [prep] [art] [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 | Then his glance flicked down to her mouth , lingered there for a moment — and she just knew that he was remembering those kisses they had shared . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Æthelred 's confirmation of the will of Æthelric of Bocking , which is from no later than 999 , says that there was a plan to receive Swegen in Essex when he first came there with a fleet , and that Æthelred was told of Æthelric 's involvement in it many years before he died . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I knew only that they happened there in the darkness and only a few feet from the pavements . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She had climbed the seventy-nine steps to the top of the tower and rested there beside the cupola . |
| 14 | I arrived there on a planeload of Canadian oil-drillers who were several inches taller than me even without their high-heeled boots . |
| 15 | He found a scene effectively unchanged since the rubber-seekers first arrived there at the turn of the century . |
| 16 | The second thing I did n't know , she er , she worked eighteen , she worked for eighteen months in London , arrived there for a holiday , and er , from being eighteen , so sh , this now will explain why she 's quite mature as I said she 's still very young , and that . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | A snowflake touched the glass , stuck there for a moment then melted . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Walked there for a start . |
| 21 | We walked from Little Thomham to Steams of Shimpling ; and we walked there for a week . |
| 22 | Death walked there in the sunlight . |
| 23 | He hung there for a second before slithering sideways , and as he slipped towards the ground the seladang hooked blindly at his body , knocking it this way and that , until one of its long horns caught and held . |
| 24 | The gear had held and I hung there for a moment , taking stock . |
| 25 | The last gleam of sun touched the ruined battlements as they watched , hung there for a moment like a tattered cloth caught on a briar , and was gone . |
| 26 | It hung there for a moment . |
| 27 | Part of the time it just hung there in the water , not even the tip of a fin moving . |
| 28 | They hung there in the sky like faces of fire looking down on the island , like something waiting . |
| 29 | It collected there in a stone hollow , fell down over moss . |
| 30 | 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 . |