Example sentences of "[verb] there [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And in terrible conditions , erm , another country is Zaire where there is currently , I mean I 'd think there was a military coup or something there in the last few weeks , but these things are colonies which were n't connected to Britain , hoping I 'm being , I think it 's a French colony , they use a Belgian colony or is an ex Belgian colony , maybe in Belgium and France you would get more news about those two countries , but here we do n't , because they , we have n't got that colonial connection that makes us interested perhaps erm and , and when we do find out about South Africa because it used to be a colony , we do find out about , I mean Ethiopia I think we found out about because of the disaster that 's happening there in several of the countries all around it , used to be British colonies . |
| 3 | Everything 's seized up while the ground 's frozen — there wo n't be much happening there till spring now . |
| 4 | He used to visit the factory rather late in the afternoon and , if I knew he was coming , I would wait there for him under some pretext . |
| 5 | I 'll wait there till midnight . |
| 6 | For Philip said that board , thick papers , " something , should be put under the tank to raise it , because of some tricky protruding pipes , and Jasper , seeing the stacks of newspaper that had come down from the attic , swiftly gathered them up and built them , while he knelt there beside it , into an eighteen-inch-high platform . |
| 7 | His knees ached as he knelt there for hours . |
| 8 | For a second or two Ben knelt there in front of him threateningly , his whole body tensed as if to act . |
| 9 | He knelt there in the darkness , listening to the sounds of the subsiding passion in the room below , then swivelled silently and with even greater care than before , and feeling far more sober , moved back towards the thin , escaping light at the far end of the chill , cramped roof space . |
| 10 | If the body had come there as a result of a crime that took place on the river , then the River Police with their specialised knowledge of tides and shipping were the obvious people to investigate it . |
| 11 | Most residents of homes for the elderly are in their eighties and have come there towards the end of an active life . |
| 12 | Tindal C.J. in that case gave as examples of permissible retaking by A from the land of an innocent person , C , ( a ) where the goods have come there by accident ; ( b ) where they have been feloniously taken by B and A follows them to C's land ; ( c ) where C refuses to deliver up the goods or to make any answer to A's demand for them . |
| 13 | Traders buying nutmegs and doves from Arabian merchants had been aware of their existence for centuries ; Marco Polo knew roughly where they were , for he saw junk traffic in the ports of Cathay loaded down with spices and manned by suntanned crews who had clearly come there from the south . |
| 14 | And the Bishop married me there and the vicar and er quite a lot of people had come there from all over like because I was being marrying in the Welsh church you see , I did n't have a lot of And the Bishop married me , that was something for them to come . |
| 15 | Springfield were the first band Young formed when he came to California , driving there in a hearse all the way from Canada . |
| 16 | He was instituted there on 3 May 1631 and served for several years . |
| 17 | In ordinary language the accused does not intend to deprive the victim permanently of his umbrella , but s.6 deems there to be an intention permanently to deprive . |
| 18 | Section 3(1) deems there to be an appropriation where the accused " has come by the property ( innocently or not ) without stealing it " . |
| 19 | ‘ There he was a-sitting there like a scaly old bull . ’ |
| 20 | Nadine had been invited to stay the night at Deanne 's home and the girls were walking there with Deanne 's mother Sharon and her boyfriend when tragedy struck . |
| 21 | They were left on the car park , so people knew they were parked there for the night . |
| 22 | In chartered helicopters they hovered over the empty stretch of road between Fenny Stratford and Buckingham to photograph the bare tarmac and the last few barriers and police cars parked there at first light . |
| 23 | Katherine Parr , the widow of Henry VIII , saw out her last years at Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire , dying there on 5 September 1548 . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | The latter 's delight and enthusiasm were such that he insisted that Nicholas should be sent to study at Oxford University and maintained there at the royal charge ; but a month later the youth died , on his twentieth birthday . |
| 26 | To know with certainty whether one 's life had been considered good or bad would be a comfort , but even more satisfying would be to find there in the book the answers to the little unsolved mysteries of everyday life ; to read what really happened clearly and truly , like a watchmaker who opens the little door in the front of a grandfather clock and looks inside . |
| 27 | We rehearsed there for about two weeks — it was about 90 degrees in there ! ’ |
| 28 | You 've located there for year 's … ’ |
| 29 | Another issue of considerable importance is the question of additionality : what proportion of companies have located on , or remained within , the zones as a result of designation , and what proportion would have located there without designation ? |
| 30 | He was frozen there with an appalled sense of waste , that his cohort had denied him his greatest discovery . |