Example sentences of "there he [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As he stood there he felt a hand on his shoulder .
2 There he became a world champion in a year filled with controversy and difficulty and there he learned that he neither really liked being world champion ( it was inhibiting ) nor really driving fast cars as fast as he was expected to ( they were thoroughly frightening ) .
3 There he shared a platform with distinguished Japanese financiers , who agreed that shareholders ought to have more power over company managers .
4 There he meets a group of lads from Liverpool .
5 There he saw a pair of motor torpedo boats tied up at one of the quays and decided to attack .
6 He joined the court of Chlothar II after 614 , and there he formed a number of close friendships .
7 When he visited Ottery in August 1793 his brothers reluctantly agreed to help him ; but some of the money they supplied was frittered away on the journey back to Cambridge , and when he got there he discovered a host of forgotten debts .
8 There he lifted a corner of the curtain to peer out at the bright patches of daylight filtering through the trees .
9 From there he got a taxi home , arriving at 2am .
10 When we got there he got a letter to say the owner had fixed up for coal for Poole in Dorset .
11 He landed eventually at Stabiae ( near the present Castellammare ) , where things were still fairly tolerable , and there he encountered a friend of his , one Pomponianus , who was making frantic preparations to escape , loading his possessions on to ships and fretting for a favourable wind so that he could put to sea .
12 There he toured a canal barge , specially built to cater for the disabled .
13 That 's punishment , yeah , they would either do that or there was one driver down there he broke a wheel , that were n't his fault , and he had to pay for it , he had to go in the office like I did once .
14 There he opened a day-school in 1849 and built a parsonage in 1854 .
15 From there he fly a Learjet , acting as pathfinder for the Skyhawks , and I believe once for the Super Etendards .
16 There he found a moment of illusory tranquillity with his stepdaughter and her two sons , before setting out on the journey which was to end at Saint Helena .
17 There he built a model farm specialising in truffles — the regional speciality — potatoes and nuts .
18 There he entered a museum which had no antiquities , and in the course of several years built galleries to house two private collections which he brought to the museum .
19 There he won a half-blue in chess , and left in 1898 without taking a degree .
20 While there he begged a look around a semi-derelict Dakota and realised he was hooked on propliners !
21 From there he begged a lift in a bomber belonging to the Desert Air Force , and the crew flew him to Udine — he had been very glad of his sheepskin coat and boots .
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