Example sentences of "there [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The raft drifted very slowly , making no disturbance , and there through the mirror-smooth surface I saw a giant pike , lying in wait for its prey like a lurking U-boat . |
| 2 | I think obviously I would agree with a lot of what what the districts have said there about the strategic importance of having such a policy . |
| 3 | You you mentioned there about the old market . |
| 4 | ‘ You know , ’ said Lesley , busy at the coffee-tray , ‘ I must have been out there about the same time . |
| 5 | There during the first half of the century , as in other armies , notably that of France , regiments were in effect the property of their colonels . |
| 6 | They then moved west to a new holding area at Bir Zalten , sixty miles south of the German positions at El Agheila , which had been recced by Mike Sadler who had flown up there during the first week in November . |
| 7 | Orders were sent to no fewer than four squadrons to try to engage him in the Irish Sea or , as a last resort , to intercept him off Brest on his way home ; but in the event none of them was needed for he was caught , almost by chance , near Kinsale on the southern coast of Ireland at daybreak on 29 February 1760 , by three frigates which had taken refuge there during the recent storm . |
| 8 | because no white people were there during the hot weather . |
| 9 | The parallels here are with Sheffield before huge new steel works were erected there during the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | Today 's farewell party brought together staff who 'd worked there during the Second World War . |
| 11 | My destination was Welcombe in North Devon , a place introduced to me by Nigel , who had lived there during the early part of the war . |
| 12 | I arrived there during the last day of it , and heard Dr. Bernardo pleading eloquently on behalf of the children he labours so unweariedly to rescue from the streets of our great cities , and also saw a gathering of the colporteurs gathered from the north and west , to get a word of encouragement in their laborious work of carrying pure literature into the homes of those who in numbers of instances live beyond the reach of the minister and the bookseller . |
| 13 | It would be a record label for their own music and for the struggling artists just waiting out there for the benevolent despotism of the Beatles to pluck them from obscurity . |
| 14 | I can take it over there for the first service which is free anyway and I can take it back to Swansea for the others ca n't I ? |
| 15 | Have it there for the first month or something . |
| 16 | So consequently every time I moved school , moved into different I had to fight me way there for the first week because I hated anyone to call me Ginger you see ? |
| 17 | The one that eluded him was that of the Association of Golf Writers which , asked to nominate who had done most for European golf , decided on the Walker Cup team that went to the United States and won the trophy there for the first time . |
| 18 | This is what strikes fear into the hearts of all but the most experienced , and has men playing there for the first time knocking at the knees . |
| 19 | It was at Lovell 's dinner-table that Coleridge eventually found Southey , and there for the first time that he met Lovell 's wife Mary and her eldest sister Sarah Fricker . |
| 20 | Linford was there for the first time . |
| 21 | One company director — then unconverted — whom I took there for the first time one Tuesday had this reaction : ‘ All my life I have been longing without knowing it to hear preaching like this . ’ |
| 22 | Jack seemed to realise she was there for the first time . |
| 23 | ‘ I suppose being at an emotional low I did actually take heroin there for the first time , ’ he said . |
| 24 | When you walk you wait there for the first time do n't you ? |
| 25 | At his death he was unknown as a poet ; on 8 December 1975 , the centenary of the wreck of the Deutschland , a plaque to his memory was unveiled in poets ' corner , Westminster Abbey , honouring a Roman Catholic there for the first time since John Dryden [ q.v . ] . |
| 26 | I remember my excitement when I had arrived there for the first time from St Aubyn 's . |
| 27 | Our friendly policeman had gone but there were nurses there for the first time that I 'd seen , and even the odd doctor . |
| 28 | Some 500 psychologists from all parts of the world meet in Scarborough next month when the British Psychological Society holds its conference there for the first time . |
| 29 | There were some boys out there for the first time and they were absolutely terrified . ’ |
| 30 | Will Carling , the captain of England , is travelling there for the first time and the selectors decided not to weigh him down with the cares of office . |