Example sentences of "[vb past] there a " in BNC.
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| 1 | London died 12 January 1714 , leaving estates in Thames Ditton , purchased from Talman , who built there a small house for his lifelong friend . |
| 2 | Only when he trawled his memory of leaving the room earlier , and found there a distinct recollection of checking that he had locked the door behind him , did irritation turn to anxiety . |
| 3 | Mr Wakerley said when police later went to Sams ' workshop , in Newark , Nottinghamshire , they found there a set of stencils capable of producing both messages . |
| 4 | He raised his hand to his mouth in a gesture of dismay and held it suspended there a few inches from his face . |
| 5 | The Swiss underestimated the Scots mentality when we played there a year ago . |
| 6 | I noticed there a young man what 's he called Richard is he ? |
| 7 | William Thomson , later Lord Kelvin , was elected to the chair of Natural Philosophy at Glasgow in 1846 at the age of twenty-two , and organized there a physics laboratory for students . |
| 8 | At this time I began , having been converted through reading the gospels , carefully to read the book of Acts and discovered there a level of Christian effectiveness of which I knew very little . |
| 9 | Yet , when one of the local farmers , grinding the bony soil of a resisting field , felt the earth give way and drop him into a narrow grave , and discovered there a store of gravegoods disposed around the human remains , the interval of the centuries seemed to close . |
| 10 | He conquered Cyprus in three months and established there a base of operations for the Christian forces in the East . |
| 11 | At yesterday 's launch of Brook 's Impressions de Pelleas , his reworking of Debussy 's opera , Robert Palmer , Glasgow 's director of performing arts , introduced Brook as ‘ one who had brought to the Tramway the hallmark of excellence and established there a benchmark for others ’ achievement . ’ |
| 12 | She lay there a long time in the bath , soaking , looking through the open door at his sleeping figure on the bed . |
| 13 | He lay there a while longer , unable to relax , then got up and put on his robe . |
| 14 | The Chiswick Empire featured in the life of Michael Redgrave , who — as a boy — saw there a rough and ready performance , by Ben Greet , and his company , of ‘ Macbeth ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Then went Samson to Gaza and saw there a harlot , and went in unto her . ’ |
| 16 | He went there a year before the war , and is doing well I believe . ’ |
| 17 | He planned to bring her to meet his parents before he went there a second time , with her . |
| 18 | We got there a quarter of an hour early , around nine in the morning . |
| 19 | When they got there a group of men were already pulling the monster off the sharpened stakes they had set in the bottom of a pit . |
| 20 | I even made sure we got there an hour early in order to take everything in . |
| 21 | I said he said yes sh with , with her , when she was first married , but she only lived there a couple of months . |
| 22 | His eyes scanned her face , as if he sought there an answer to the problem perplexing his mind . |
| 23 | Harry felt his way backwards to the wall , out of range of the searching eyes , and leaned there a moment to breathe more easily . |
| 24 | She waited there a bit and then dashed up the road and crossed over to our street . |
| 25 | ‘ Was n't there a policeman shot there a little while ago ? ’ |
| 26 | Who said there a success ? |
| 27 | I sat there a long time , bored , with a cold bottom , and I was about to open the pub door to tell him I was going home when I saw the organ grinder trundling his barrel-organ down the street . |
| 28 | Li Yuan sat there a moment longer , thinking over the satisfactions of the last few days , recollecting the great feeling of ch'i , of pure energy , he had experienced in dealing with these matters . |
| 29 | We sat there a while , almost dark inside after Mendez dropped the side curtains , not saying anything , feeling the coach move up and down on its leather thoroughbraces as the boy who worked for us put the travelling bags in the rear end boot and covered them with a canvas . |
| 30 | Congregation , congregation , it 's not sort of all sort of these people sat there a disco or something do n't they ? |