Example sentences of "there [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deciding where to place your boat on the start line and then threading your way there through a crowded fleet is no mean feat , but Stuart Quarrie offers some tips |
| 2 | Oh I was there about a good bit . |
| 3 | Ron and Pat Woolley , of Rhyl , recently took a huge lorry-load of medical supplies , equipment and clothes to the Klaipicla Children 's Hospital in Lithuania after being shocked by the conditions they found there during a previous visit . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's become harder and harder to smile or laugh out there during an international match . |
| 5 | The diagram shape is there as a visual aid for the knitter to see the ultimate shape of the garment section being knitted . |
| 6 | Nigel Maynard , son of the Malta A.O.C. The unit now moved to Alexandria , although a small servicing detachment was to be left at Kalafrana for several more weeks in order that Sunderlands might land there as a forward base . |
| 7 | He felt pleased that she was known there as a married woman . |
| 8 | After the building was taken the " national salvation committee " installed itself there as a rival government . |
| 9 | I was neither Jew nor English nor white , or even a proper Indian or a proper Pakistani ; but my travels through Europe and stay in the USA and my near acceptance there as a living entity capable of suffering pain and enjoying pleasure had temporarily given me a sort of quasi-human status , further aggravated by those willing to be my sexual partners ; I had become spoilt and pampered . |
| 10 | She remembers Guildford with affection — since she trained there as a young actress in the 1950s . |
| 11 | Then finally , Paul Reichmann saw the opportunity he had been waiting for in London , a city he fondly recalled from the days when he studied there as a young man . |
| 12 | Oh I w I went there as a young girl . |
| 13 | The Russian ambassador in Kiev has described Ukrainian independence to other diplomats there as a temporary phenomenon , unlikely to last more than another year and a half . |
| 14 | But I always knew you were fiercely independent and I knew how you 'd react to my eternal presence if you realised I was there as a self-appointed bodyguard . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I take it that you see that architectural dog 's dinner down there as a skilfully-planned structure — some sort of enormous palace . ’ |
| 16 | Presumably he was there as a special precaution because of the Amal-Hezbollah fighting . |
| 17 | ‘ Take your son , your only son , whom you love , Isaac , and go to the land of Moriah , and offer him there as a burnt offering upon one of the mountains of which I shall tell you . ’ |
| 18 | Leading a band of forty-five lodges up the Valley of Winding Waters in the summer of 1875 , Joseph found two companies of cavalry under Captain Whipple stationed there as a peace-keeping force . |
| 19 | Almost immediately they felt the vibration in the deck , a steady throbbing that was there as a constant background between the ringing blows of the storm . |
| 20 | In its vast project to kick the mainframe habit and move to Unix-based client-server systems , Mead Corp 's database operator Mead Data Central Inc is spreading its favours around , and while some Unix business has gone to Hewlett-Packard Co , NCR Corp is also in there as a so-called strategic technology partner ( presumably its non-strategic technology partners are the people that supply the brooms they sweep the floor with ) as Mead moves existing applications off mainframes to a client-server environment : the two have been working together for the past year on projects to re-engineer access to the widely-used Lexis and Nexis on-line information services and create a new internal information system infrastructure and campus-wide network , and Mead is using NCR System 3000 symmetric multiprocessors and AT&T Co and NCR network products . |
| 21 | She lit a candle over there as a silent prayer for her estranged husband and went home . |
| 22 | His expert knowledge of classical history was sharpened by a deep interest in Indian law based upon his years of service there as a senior legal official . |
| 23 | It has been estimated that as many as 10% of old people admitted to hospital are there as a direct result of drugs prescribed by their GP ( Age Concern , 1977 ) , and Phillipson ( 1982 ) suggests that much over-prescription of drugs is a conscious attempt to control the medical demands on the health service by older people . |
| 24 | This moral goodness was not exactly out there as an actual property of the benevolent feelings and actions which presented themselves to an observer as possessing it . |
| 25 | He also belongs for the reason suggested by Svidrigailov ; Petersburg is the administrative centre of Russia , and Porfiry occupies his position there as an official examining magistrate within the metropolitan and national legal system . |
| 26 | just wants to go there as an equal |
| 27 | If you go there as an investigating officer either do it more subtly or use the full paraphernalia of your office . ’ |
| 28 | If I was outside , she said she could telephone me every day for nothing , if I gave her the number of a phone box and arranged to be there for a certain time … |
| 29 | Do you have to be there for a certain amount of time ? |
| 30 | It 's only there for a certain amount of time . |