Example sentences of "[vb past] there a [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | I noticed there a young man what 's he called Richard is he ? |
| 4 | She lay there a long time in the bath , soaking , looking through the open door at his sleeping figure on the bed . |
| 5 | He planned to bring her to meet his parents before he went there a second time , with her . |
| 6 | ‘ Was n't there a policeman shot there a little while ago ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We stayed there a long time , until well after midnight . |
| 9 | Then she shut us in the byre — and we stayed there a long time ! |
| 10 | ‘ I stood there a long time , looking at a row of the most twisted , gnarled , sorry-looking pollard willows I have ever seen . |
| 11 | We stood there a long time watching , heads tipped back , neck muscles beginning to ache . |
| 12 | He stood there a long time , letting the feeling ebb . |
| 13 | Three minutes ago she stood there a fucking minute , never mind about Lucinda . |