Example sentences of "there [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rome Central is one of the three top postings in the country , along with Milan and Naples , and I 'd worked my way there through a succession of jobs in various provincial headquarters . |
| 2 | They 'd have been there about a couple of weeks . |
| 3 | we were gon na go down there , but erm nan and granddad had been down there about a fortnight ago and they said they had n't got a lot out yet , they said they would n't be out for about another three weeks , so about |
| 4 | I went down there about a month ago say hello to them all . |
| 5 | Now we travelled the best part of the Ukraine and we also dipped into and er we were there about a month , just under a month , and erm one of the impressions that I got there , just as an ordinary chap , no , not learned politically so I ca n't speak on the level er of most of your callers today , but er , I realise that here you had er people , in actual fact my my comment was the country 's half finished , everywhere you went there were building constructions so far incomplete , er projects underway and you 've got the impression that they did need communism in a way to make the thing work er , the er , let's take the Ukrainians , I mean that , that 's where the Cossacks come from and they love a good time , er those sort of people in a way need a strong government . |
| 6 | You 're talking there about a bunch of people trying to stop another bunch of people 's expression of what they see , when they know absolutely nothing about them . |
| 7 | You 're talking there about a bunch of people trying to stop another bunch of people 's expression of what they see , when they know absolutely nothing about them . |
| 8 | The report spells out a series of options , and leans towards a plan which would put men on the Moon in 2001 to build a base there as a springboard for the Martian expedition 10 years later . |
| 9 | It was a long while since she had visited her old home , and longer still since she had lived there as a girl . |
| 10 | I mean it was always there as a defence mechanism so you |
| 11 | I used to help there as a boy . |
| 12 | Like Jos , her brother had worked there as a boy . |
| 13 | ‘ I used to play there as a boy , and people told us the tunnels went all the way to Cuchulain 's castle . |
| 14 | Er and I went there as a boy after engines and things you know , in then , do you remember them ? |
| 15 | I lived there as a boy and know the coal |
| 16 | There 's good sport over that high pasture , I remember it well from my time there as a boy . |
| 17 | And that erm probably , possibly could run it off there as a P S Two mouse but erm I 've heard |
| 18 | However , Bukharin 's ideas were not formed solely by what was currently happening in Soviet Russia ; rather he viewed what was happening there as a part of a much larger upheaval on a world scale . |
| 19 | Elsewhere in this issue , Isabel Wolff reports on the inspiring life of Rigoberta Menchu , a indefatigable defender of human rights of indigenous people in Central America ; Ian Williams describes his experience in Somalia while working there as a nurse during the worst of the 1992 famine ; and we publish an extract from The Princess , an anonymous account of the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia . |
| 20 | If it had been me there as a kid , I 'd have wrapped my arms around him and smothered him , that 's how strong the emotion was . |
| 21 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 22 | Pat Riley , large , square and solid , the sergeant-major who ruled by tact , was actually an American citizen , having been taken there as a child . |
| 23 | The place had belonged to a Polish woman , who 'd lived there as a child and then rented it to students for the past fifteen years . |
| 24 | On the other hand , it does not quite cover all sporting interests because horse racing ( or indeed camel racing ) is also in there as a sport . |
| 25 | In 1681 King Charles II visited Winchester to inspect progress on a palace which Wren was building for him there as a base for hawking and hunting in the Hampshire hills and forests . |
| 26 | Wilko still the bookie 's favourite , but the quote from Graham Kelly the FA Chief was that anyone appointed now is just there as a caretaker , because they want to change things around and take their time now that we have nothing to play for till 1998 . |
| 27 | Society was there as a backdrop to drama , melodrama if you like , and that drama could only be presented in terms of individual destinies which had to be resolved satisfactorily in the film itself . |
| 28 | There is a token female on the adventure but she 's just there as a conversation point and to be rescued from the unwanted advances of unshaven cowboys ( ‘ This is not a very 90 's man thing , ’ Crystal warns them ) . |
| 29 | David says : ‘ I felt I should have been dressed there as a man . |
| 30 | In effect , the first dog has always been there as a crutch to rely upon . |