Example sentences of "there [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Had to see Elmore there about some instruments . |
| 2 | This allows for repricing of the budget for November , nineteen ninety-two , to November nineteen ninety-three , and that sum is shown there as some fifty- seven thousand pounds . |
| 3 | See look at all those cross pieces , they look as they 've been there for some purpose , you know ? |
| 4 | My father had proceeded to stand there for some moments , saying nothing , merely holding open the door . |
| 5 | We had the road up there for some sewer connections and he said that our hazard warning lamps were out . |
| 6 | In Kufra one policeman ( the senior customs officer ) was a stranger , though he had lived there for some decades ; in Tazarbu nearly all policemen were from one lineage ( Bilal ) , or had married into it ; the senior officer 's son was also in the force , a trainee under his father 's authority . |
| 7 | Most of the families in Rimswell , especially those concerned in agriculture , have lived there for some generations . |
| 8 | All one can say with any certainty is that the Pounds ( and probably the Yeatses also ) paid at least two visits to Sicily in these years , and that on at least one occasion — probably on more than one — they stayed there for some weeks , if not months . |
| 9 | There might be a lot of traffic sort of nosing out there or there might be a congestion there for some reason . |
| 10 | Christopher had obviously been going there for some years . |
| 11 | In 1863 he died and the mills were leased to Reynolds and Allen , who remained there for some years . |
| 12 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 13 | This port was frequently a target for Iraqi attacks , if only because of the intermittently suspended Japanese-Iranian petrochemical plant which had been under construction there for some years . |
| 14 | Mr Fallon said a family renting a house valued at £25,000 , and entitled to the maximum price discount of 40pc because they had lived there for some years , could have a mortgage of £10,000 . |
| 15 | It might also cause the price of oil to soar above $50 a barrel and stay there for some months . |
| 16 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 17 | It appeared that we were going to be there for some time . |
| 18 | The doctor , who had now been there for some time , and was looking at his watch , had been explaining . |
| 19 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 20 | Jack stood there for some time , staring at the repairs . |
| 21 | He was there for some time , and was with her when she regained consciousness for the last time . ’ |
| 22 | Which must mean that he intends to be there for some time . |
| 23 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 24 | Brooke Alexander , of course , and Josh Baer , Ronald Feldman , Pat Hearn and Feature have been there for some time . |
| 25 | " Any more than I can explain why cholera should have always attacked those of our soldiers who had recently arrived in the Crimea in preference to those who had been there for some time … |
| 26 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |
| 27 | I stayed there for some time and looked at the castle , and then I walked on through the forest for about an hour . |
| 28 | Alcuin was resident among the Northumbrians in 790 and remained there for some time in the hope of influencing Aethelred , whose accession he welcomed , though evidently to no avail for shortly after he declared that he was working against injustice and that Aethelred 's attitude was not as he had hoped . |
| 29 | He remained there for some time . |
| 30 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |