Example sentences of "there [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Across there through that gap
2 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 .
3 What sort of feeling was there about that kind of
4 " He 's generally there about this time .
5 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 .
6 Section 5(3) provides that a person is not liable under section 2 for any damage by an animal ‘ kept on any premises or structure to a person trespassing there , if it is proved either ( a ) that the animal was not kept there for the protection of persons or property ; or ( b ) ( if the animal was kept there for the protection of persons or property ) that keeping it there for that purpose was not unreasonable . ’
7 Prentice opened it and wedged it open with a rusted chunk of iron left there for that purpose .
8 That is what the greenbelt is actually there for , and if you have it there for that purpose , as I said yesterday , the necessary corollary is that you have additional provision beyond it , and I ca n't resist to offer Mr Wincup some support , I 'm sure one piece of evidence that he gave you about the letter from the Parish Council , he 's probably already replied to that Parish Council saying , as you 're in the York greenbelt have no fear , all the Selby needs will pass straight across your heads and land somewhere else .
9 Ken wanted to rake David to this thing on his own and David , being very , very cold — he hates demonstrations of emotion — and me being very Mediterranean , I told him that as far as I was concerned , I did n't give a fuck about his award or seeing him receive it , but I thought it was a bit much that his mother could n't be there because it was a public occasion and it was a time when , without having to speak to her , he could be nice to her , as every mother loves to be there for that kind of thing .
10 Will you have enough to do down there for that length of time Christine ?
11 See look at all those cross pieces , they look as they 've been there for some purpose , you know ?
12 We had the road up there for some sewer connections and he said that our hazard warning lamps were out .
13 There might be a lot of traffic sort of nosing out there or there might be a congestion there for some reason .
14 Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time .
15 It appeared that we were going to be there for some time .
16 The doctor , who had now been there for some time , and was looking at his watch , had been explaining .
17 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 .
18 Jack stood there for some time , staring at the repairs .
19 He was there for some time , and was with her when she regained consciousness for the last time . ’
20 Which must mean that he intends to be there for some time .
21 He 'd been there for some time .
22 Brooke Alexander , of course , and Josh Baer , Ronald Feldman , Pat Hearn and Feature have been there for some time .
23 " 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
24 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 .
25 I stayed there for some time and looked at the castle , and then I walked on through the forest for about an hour .
26 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 .
27 He remained there for some time .
28 And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil !
29 Tuan Ti Fo stood there for some time , staring at the door , the wicker basket resting lightly in his hand .
30 There were signs that Sir Charles had stood there for some time .
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