Example sentences of "[vb pp] there [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By ruling in favour of the appellant , a schoolmaster at Malvern College , whose two sons were educated there at a concessionary rate , the Lords have avoided what has been described as an ‘ administrative nightmare ’ . |
| 2 | The female is attracted there by a colourful advertisement display given on the nest itself . |
| 3 | No dog , he noticed , but Cara 's son , the silent child who had always made him feel so ill at ease , still sitting by the hearth as if he had grown there from a morose three-year-old into a clean and tidy , almost dandified five . |
| 4 | It was almost as though he had grown there like a vile fungus on the dead timber . |
| 5 | The first survivors who reached the shore regrouped up the estuary past the bony tangles of mangrove in the forest at the arranged meeting place ; they were met there by a waiting group of islanders , men and women , ready to re-arm them and send them into battle . |
| 6 | While France was content for Germany to remain divided , it was concerned about its new neighbour , the Federal Republic of West Germany , not least about the rapid economic growth that had occurred there after a major currency reform in 1948 . |
| 7 | Back foot is the last into the footstraps and is only used there in a strong wind ( Force 4 & plus ) |
| 8 | Thousands of school children , all of them well over sixteen , were crammed there into a large tall gilt room , and told not to insult the French , not to talk to Arabs , and not to go to Montmartre : then an English lady stood up and said that Paris had always been for her a source inépuisable de something , and everyone clapped , and then they were all turned out again , rather quickly , for the room was clearly needed for something else . |
| 9 | He felt pleased that she was known there as a married woman . |
| 10 | His epistemology , I have suggested , was even in his own terms a failure , but I 've suggested also that failure is n't to be judged there in a naive way . |
| 11 | To me it was all familiar ( why , only a few years before I 'd danced there with a stiff-backed medical student by the name of Achille Flaubert ) . |
| 12 | The white cylinder in question may not be a piece of chalk but a carefully contrived fake placed there by a scheming pupil in search of amusement . |
| 13 | On the village green is a stone block said to have been placed there by a local lord of short stature , to help him mount his horse . |
| 14 | It has been noted that on occasions the cremated bones are found in the urns in a small cluster as if placed there in a small bag . |
| 15 | On the window was a blue-and-red peacock she had stencilled there on a wet afternoon when the garden was blanked out with grey rain . |
| 16 | In 1763 the now very substantial collection in the Louvre ( even in 1715 it had amounted to 2,000 bound volumes ) returned to Versailles to be kept there in a new foreign ministry building . |
| 17 | Faye 's medical supplies were kept there in a large lockable cupboard , and that blood-sugar level should be monitored within the next ten minutes . |
| 18 | The first was occupied by Miss Trimby , the last of a family that had lived there for a long time whilst her neighbours were Mr. & Mrs. Collins with their middle-aged bachelor son . |
| 19 | they made the area around the reactor a non living area , the problem is of course people that have lived there for a long time do n't want to move and so over |
| 20 | She sank down on to the bed and glanced at the writing pad that she 'd tossed there after a brief effort to write to Arnie . |
| 21 | They had been imprisoned there by a long dead ruler , Llud . |
| 22 | Kurunagala , the centre of the Northern Band , remained an economic backwater in the 1860s , but in the late 1880s and 1890s coconut plantations were established there on a large scale . |