Example sentences of "[vb past] there [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Off Coleshill Road , north of the city centre , is a short street called Cash 's Lane , named after the Cash brothers , John and Joseph , who built there in 1857 Cash 's ‘ Top Shops ’ . |
| 2 | She moved there with French husband and , after failing to persuade the French authorities to accept her English teaching qualifications , she has pursued a career as a bilingual secretary , joining Courtaulds seven years ago . |
| 3 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
| 4 | So something happened there at that house , we told 'em the house number , where the lamp 's situated , we gave 'em all the information they they need but we still ca n't get any response . |
| 5 | I felt very alone at that moment , stuck there on that track somewhere in the Andes , my body chill with sweat and my hands still trembling with the nervous tension of getting safely through the rutted mud of the bend . |
| 6 | I served there for thirteen year , became a chargehand eventually and eventually the f the firm folded up . |
| 7 | Well I was between sixteen and seventeen because I think I started r er working there in the mid Summer or or m early Spring of twenty seven , and worked there through that period , all through nineteen twenty eight , then I emigrated to the United States in nineteen twenty nine . |
| 8 | Similarly , extensive pastures can be at some distance , since animals can be walked there and kept there for some time by herdsmen . |
| 9 | Han Ch'in 's death lay there in that silence ; cold , heavy , unmentionable : a dark stone of grief in the guts of each that neither had managed to pass . |
| 10 | The intention was to march onto Tiananmen , but they never reached there on this occasion . |
| 11 | It only reached there by Chief Superintendent knew what he was bloody talking about . |
| 12 | I had noticed the name on a map but had never read a mention of it so went there in some trepidation : it seemed remote , so far from towns and railways . |
| 13 | The device could 've been planted as early as Saturday morning and police want to speak to anyone who went there from that time , to when the alarm was raised yesterday . |
| 14 | ‘ I got there on one A-level and kept thinking I should n't really be here . |
| 15 | If you want to label people modernizers , we got there in this union first . |
| 16 | ‘ Athens , my chiefest joy , ’ he had written several years before he got there in vivid anticipation ; now he experienced its individual dynamic . |
| 17 | Over the farmhouse door is a date stone , 1712 , referring to Roger and Isabella Taylor , who lived there at that time . |
| 18 | And you may ask yourselves , my dear and most innocent readers , whether he spoke there with more gentleness or cunning , since the lady set such store on giving herself of her own free will , and since also the castle with its gardens , though now measurable with pins and fine stitches and thumbnails and thimbles , were lordly and handsome enough for any man to wish to spend his days there . |
| 19 | This was unsuccessful , but fighting continued there for some time . |
| 20 | He accesses a Nifty-Serve bulletin board which may carry idol information deposited there by other otaku , and he desperately seeks a way to hack into the mainframe of Nakayama 's record company with a code-cracking programme he designed himself . |
| 21 | Prentice opened it and wedged it open with a rusted chunk of iron left there for that purpose . |
| 22 | I du n no if they got nests or nothing to go to at night , but sat there under that bush all huddled up , they look froze to death . |
| 23 | The other thing I wondered when I was watching the video , you sat there at one stage , while I was writing and I thought , I thought , what are you thinking ? |
| 24 | The ninth bomber came out of a lightening sky at six o'clock exactly , and though she sat there for another hour , it was the last . |
| 25 | A dark , low-browed gent sat there in pampered profile , his once-powerful frame encased in a double-breasted needlestripe suit . |
| 26 | And er I stayed there at that school until nineteen hundred and twelve . |
| 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 | She stayed there for some time , the heavy depression that had been weighing her down ever since Marianne had appeared in her room soothed a little by the gentle singing of the river . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He remained there for some time . |