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

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1 Nothing seems to have been put here or there by chance : this is a cockpit designed by professionals for people to do things professionally in .
2 Her shift , too , was white , but it was sticking to her body here and there with sweat .
3 The landscape is a stony desert , smeared here and there with sulphur compounds .
4 Her hair , once so dark and lustrous , had lost its sheen and was stranded here and there with grey .
5 The highly polished wooden floor was marked here and there with chalk rings , like an infection .
6 Erm and er there 's the er loading gauge and there of course is the whitewashed erm cattle dock .
7 There is a Nazi in everyone , so schoolmaster Golding suggests , and there since childhood ; and civilisation is no more than the thinnest of thin veneers , as Hitler showed , masking a base , innate craving to rule and be ruled .
8 And there from saddle we worship the goddess of moorland and whin .
9 When an act or omission involving fault which might otherwise be regarded as founding an action occurs , there must , in order for such act or omission to be regarded as negligent , be then and there in existence some legal person to sue or be sued .
10 Mr Denny said : ‘ They came to an alleyway between houses and there in fact the purpose changed and he was confronted by MacPherson . ’
11 We turn a bend in the road and there in front of us is an entrance to a town .
12 This particular airfield had been chosen for the test-flight because it was surrounded by open country , and there in front of me were fields from which I could choose .
13 And there in front of them was the blue rectangle of the swimming pool , framed by the green of the grass and the darker green of the box hedges that acted as windbreaks .
14 On the landing he pushed open the first bedroom door , and there in front of him was Sarah Ryan .
15 Suddenly she heard a strange noise , and there in front of her was a boy .
16 When I went to the first meeting I had been appointed to the job , I went to the first meeting and there in front of me were lots of people who were managing their own schools and they were organising how to spend money that they had been allocated .
17 I 'm quite well out from the ladder because it s at an angle and there in front of me is the wardrobe .
18 Everlastingly the Kingsbrook rattled over its stones , hindered here and there by tree roots or a growth of weed , but ultimately unimpeded , always moving , glittering in the sun as if gold pieces gleamed beneath its ripples .
19 These , already adumbrated here and there by Willaert-for instance in the above-mentioned ‘ Pater noster ’ and in ‘ Amor mi fa morire ’ — are boldly developed in some of Rore 's madrigals : the insertion of accidentals beyond those which simply confirm the procedures of musica ficta , accidentals related to points in the text which they underline .
20 Water , it seemed , was everywhere ; the lanes were mired with it , dikes deep , clogged here and there by flotsam into dams that would sunder and flood under the pressure of constant rain .
21 A path led up from where they stood , its stone flags worn and broken , its progress hidden here and there by moss and weed .
22 Instead he read Hilbert 's books , notably selections from a shelf of classic pornography , not in any way hidden , the books not concealed under plain covers , but there on display for anyone to find .
23 But there without doubt were the elusive twin spires of Saigon 's cathedral that he 'd seen from far off , stationary now and clearly visible , standing sentinel over the wide , tree-lined avenues .
24 But there in front of him , a great mountain of white water flew into the sky … ten … twenty metres above the ship .
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