Example sentences of "and [vb past] there [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found it and clung there for a while , then pushed clear and knelt among the waves , head lowered . |
| 2 | Although born and bred in the country and reinstalled there for the past 30 years , I fear I am not a proper countryman ; London has dished me . |
| 3 | Many people claim that Frederick was imprisoned by the Turks , and that after his release he returned to Kaiserslautern and lived there for a long time . |
| 4 | She abandoned the half-formed thought as he went on , ‘ I was educated in England , and lived there for a number of years . |
| 5 | The arm uncurled onto Richard 's chest and moved there over the nipples and down onto the tensing stomach . |
| 6 | The latter 's delight and enthusiasm were such that he insisted that Nicholas should be sent to study at Oxford University and maintained there at the royal charge ; but a month later the youth died , on his twentieth birthday . |
| 7 | She had climbed the seventy-nine steps to the top of the tower and rested there beside the cupola . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The drum grew louder in the final roll , the flautists blew steadily , keying up anticipation , and the rattle fell silent as Dulé took one step with his other foot and left the ground , then hand over hand into the air shinned up the free-standing ladder till he alighted at the tenth rung and hung there like a heron on a breakwater at home , it seemed to Kit , even as he asked himself in wonder , what unearthly magic 's here ? |
| 10 | Last year at about this time it produced the admirable Victorian Newcastle painter Ralph Hedley ; this winter it is showing in ‘ A Romance with the North East ’ Rober and Isa ( Thompson ) Jobling , who lived and worked there until the 1920s producing powerful and poetic images of its countryside coast and people . |
| 11 | One night , later in their affair , O woke up in the middle of one of his long and noisy dreams and lay there for a long time looking at Boy 's face as he slept . |
| 12 | She fell and lay there on the floor , her legs kicking impotently . |
| 13 | Kim woke and lay there in the darkness , strangely alert , listening . |
| 14 | He pushed her away , and she fell to the floor and lay there like a broken bird . |
| 15 | But the sheaf was always cut The last sheaf was cut then it was er put in the barn and kept there for the year and |
| 16 | Robert Kelly evidently returned to Madras and died there with the rank of major by 1807 . |
| 17 | That man was admitted to hospital after his fall and died there within a week without regaining consciousness . |
| 18 | On retirement from the Army & Navy Stores I was appointed managing director of Hatchards , Piccadilly , and Miss Riley came as my secretary and continued there in a full or part time capacity for many years . |
| 19 | The cossacks were given allotments of land and farmed there as the wooden fortifications gradually rotted away . |
| 20 | Still , she reached Bristol , and waited there for a ship , ‘ with plenteous tears and boisterous sobbings , with loud cryings and shrill shriekings ’ , and , although her fellow-voyagers threatened to throw her overboard , she got to Spain and back to Bristol in a month . |
| 21 | Adam closed the front door and stood there for a moment as if he could not wrench himself away . |
| 22 | He went across and stood there beside the saddle , smoothing his hand over its finely polished surfaces . |
| 23 | Rosten had his back to Ben and stood there between the window and the prisoners . |
| 24 | Jumping down from his mount , he came back and stood there at the head of the path , looking down at her . |
| 25 | Slowly Peter opened the door to the river and stood there at the opening , the water lapping at his feet . |
| 26 | They walked out together , and stood there in the street , and Clara looked once more at her watch . |
| 27 | He went through into the marbled bathroom and stood there in the shower , letting the cold , hard jets of water purge him . |
| 28 | He crossed the room and stood there by the door , his mind running through possibilities . |
| 29 | ‘ Oberon ’ was commissioned by Covent Garden , and conducted there by the composer himself in 1826 . |
| 30 | This he accepted in 1862 and remained there for the rest of his life , being left free to pursue his own research . |