Example sentences of "there [prep] the [adj] " 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 | Others from Rhodesia will go there through the next three months . |
| 3 | Poetry has often been a form of self-pity and a means of self-advancement , and it has often pretended otherwise : Kundera 's book rumbles such pretence , as in the comedy he stages of an embassy of poets to a college of policemen and a debate there about the aesthetic of the socialist love-poem . |
| 4 | Keith , I 've had a look at page one seven four , Chemical and Allied Industries and I ca n't find anything in there about the recent problems that we 've had at Allbright and Wilsons . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You you mentioned there about the old market . |
| 7 | ‘ You know , ’ said Lesley , busy at the coffee-tray , ‘ I must have been out there about the same time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The clue to his gardening success in such unpromising terrain can be found at Hidcote in Gloucestershire , for it was a visit there during the 1960s that inspired him to hedge in his land , making a series of compartments to protect plants from the weather . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | because no white people were there during the hot weather . |
| 13 | The parallels here are with Sheffield before huge new steel works were erected there during the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | Today 's farewell party brought together staff who 'd worked there during the Second World War . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Williams had not been there during the vital moments when the kidnapping had taken place . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Several young adults hatched there during the last two breeding seasons live there as well . |
| 19 | It was indeed a performance to get your hair cut there as the two elderly unmarried brothers quite unwittingly put on a music hall act . |
| 20 | He is there as the only one who fully understands the problems of both Elgar and his Wife , but plays no part in the other activities . |
| 21 | She is also there as the inquisitive fun-loving Swanhilda in Coppélia and displays a humble origin in Cranko 's Pineapple Poll . |
| 22 | Presumably it was brought to London when John Gamgee moved his college there as the short-lived Albert Veterinary College . |
| 23 | There may even yet be reason , as Whitty ( 1989 ) claims , to be ‘ thankful that the National Curriculum is there as the one remaining symbol of a common education system and specifiable entitlement which people can struggle collectively to improve ’ . |
| 24 | There was no what we call , ends on on the slate , you know going over the tip , there was not so much waste with them there as the new tables . |
| 25 | The cossacks were given allotments of land and farmed there as the wooden fortifications gradually rotted away . |
| 26 | Now to be fair , the dilemma was there as the whole soft crust thing got going on 10 November 1989 , when the fall of the Berlin Wall gave a prop of plausibility to the caring-Nineties mediaschlock , and to Rifat Ozbek 's baggy Kleenex-vagabond numbers . |
| 27 | It seems his effort , which is what has taken two weeks ’ — he glanced at Jim Donaldson as he spoke — ‘ to portray himself as the guy trying to help Zack , and all the rest of us here and there as the bad guys making problems , has worked . |
| 28 | Thus , the squatter lost — and would have lost even had he been there for the twelve years . |
| 29 | I takes the lot in there for the lower orders , ’ said Sid . |
| 30 | When she just nodded shyly his hands came to her shoulders , warm , possessive hands that stayed right there for the two visitors to see . |