Example sentences of "[vb pp] there [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the body had come there as a result of a crime that took place on the river , then the River Police with their specialised knowledge of tides and shipping were the obvious people to investigate it . |
| 2 | Most residents of homes for the elderly are in their eighties and have come there towards the end of an active life . |
| 3 | Traders buying nutmegs and doves from Arabian merchants had been aware of their existence for centuries ; Marco Polo knew roughly where they were , for he saw junk traffic in the ports of Cathay loaded down with spices and manned by suntanned crews who had clearly come there from the south . |
| 4 | They were left on the car park , so people knew they were parked there for the night . |
| 5 | For more and more she is coming to resemble a mechanical praying mantis , frozen there in the glass , he wrote . |
| 6 | Details of some of these strategies , and others , are discussed fully in Part Two ( chapters 4 to 6 ) but since not all are considered there from an accountability perspective , they need some introduction here . |
| 7 | but David 's sat there at the minute in the background . |
| 8 | Well you know , she was just sat there in the chair and they said that they |
| 9 | I , too , could have sat there like a fan watching an actress , like a lover watching his beloved , content not to be thinking about Mum and what we could do about her . |
| 10 | Martin Martin notes that on a small rocky island to the south of Skye there is ‘ a great quantity of scurvey-grass , of an extraordinary size , and very thick ; the natives eat it frequently , as well boiled as raw : two of them told me that they happened to be confined there for the space of thirty hours , by a contrary wind ; and being without victuals , fell to eating this scurvey-grass , and finding it of a sweet taste , far different from the land scurvey-grass , they ate a large basketful of it , which did abundantly satisfy their appetites until their return home ’ . |
| 11 | By 1937 , as a result of migration from rural Kaszubia , an influx of unemployed people from nearby Elbing and Marienburg , and the large number of Jews in transit through the city who had become trapped there after a change in US immigration policy , there were about 17,000 Poles — including Kaszubians , Danzig Poles , Polish immigrants and Polish Jews — living in the urban districts . |
| 12 | Ships docking at Amnisos could well have found themselves trapped there by a north wind , just as Odysseus claimed he was . |
| 13 | It was his intention to aid Larsen in evacuating the kids from the upper levels , before they became trapped there by the fire . |
| 14 | I stared stupidly at the bag in my hand as if it had just been dropped there from a helicopter . |
| 15 | He had been dropped there in a sack . |
| 16 | Yes he had booked there for a week , I think it was for a business meeting with Mr Sandy , that 's all I know . |
| 17 | One of his most recent expeditions was climbing in an unexplored area of Greenland , having sailed there in a yacht . |
| 18 | In part this was due to an acute awareness of his own awkwardness as a speaker ; the stuttering circumlocutions , the ers and ahs , leading inexorably to a pained silence , or the word that always hung there like a tail , ‘ Anyway … ’ . |
| 19 | This one just hung there like a kite on an invisible string and then fell on its prey like a stone , somewhere in another field . |
| 20 | I would like to ask the convenor , with relation to one three on page three hundred and forty concerning the Christian ideal of marriage why not mention is menti is made there of the importance of the family worshipping and praying together . |
| 21 | Nylon yarn was made there for a time along with Cellophane packaging film , carpets and circular knitted fabrics . |
| 22 | The teamwork done there with the headmaster and teachers could not be better . |
| 23 | Twice she removed her eyes from the letter , matching what was written there with the woman in front of her . |
| 24 | Well another physical challenge in midfield seen there by the referee and Forest get the free kick and the ball was rolling when Pearce took it . |
| 25 | Manchuria was known to be rich in raw materials , notably coal and iron ore , and capable of supporting a far larger population than dwelt there at the time . |
| 26 | Nanny and baby could both be accommodated there for a while . |
| 27 | The problem here is , if , if , if , if , the , what 's , what 's happened is if , if that , if anything gets bought there in the practice , that then is taken out of our remunerations , so if we spend six hundred pounds on the stuff in the prac in , in , in the reception area |
| 28 | But Cassie strongly suspected that Johnny would have got there in the end , without any help from Bella . |
| 29 | We 've got there in the lead . |
| 30 | Of course , I shall be able to gloat , having got there before the rest of the media ! |