Example sentences of "[coord] beside it " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be underneath the chapel , or behind or beside it , and may consist of a church hall , meeting rooms and offices . |
| 2 | I saw some of the places that were to play an important part in the later dramas of my life : the great Clerecia church where I was to be sitting one momentous morning , and beside it the lovely Casa de las Conchas , its walls decorated with rows of carved scallop shells — seven rows adorn the upper storeys . |
| 3 | There are books and periodicals everywhere — on shelves , on tables , on the floor — posters and reproductions of modern paintings on the walls , parched-looking potted plants in the fireplace , a BBC micro and monitor on the desk , and beside it sheaves of dot-matrix typescript of early chapters of Domestic Angels and Unfortunate Females in various drafts . |
| 4 | By the same token , there is a need for good new shopfront design that is highly individual in style but respects the character of the buildings above and beside it . |
| 5 | The village school , now quiet behind its white palings in the morning sunshine , was next in the row , and beside it was a well-built house of Cotswold stone which stood back from the green . |
| 6 | Behind him was a big CND poster , and beside it , another two , reading ‘ VICTORY TO THE MINERS ’ and ‘ COAL NOT DOLE ’ . |
| 7 | Under it was a narrow bed covered with a brown army blanket and beside it a chair with a collection of objects neatly arranged . |
| 8 | There were screens around her bed , and beside it sat the young Sub-lieutenant , almost as motionless as the form under the sheets , staring earnestly at the bandaged head and the small white face . |
| 9 | The entrance to it is now covered over , and beside it there is a memorial inscription to Loubens and to another speleologist who has been killed there since . |
| 10 | There is also a hut with a thatched roof and beside it a store room of split poles . |
| 11 | A good fire burned in the fireplace and beside it sat Doctor Jekyll , looking white and ill . |
| 12 | On the chaise longue lay her brown wool skirt , neatly brushed , and beside it her pink striped blouse with a white collar that needed to be fastened on with studs . |
| 13 | A huge fire was burning , and beside it sat Aunt Emily , dressed in heliotrope and a number of shawls . |
| 14 | Every so often there was a little crab corpse or a twist of sand thrown up by a sandworm or a streak of brilliant green weed like the hair of a water nymph and sometimes a smooth small rock and beside it a still , clear , tiny pool with mussels , blue black and pearly . |
| 15 | There was a huge range on which a vast kettle simmered like a cauldron and beside it a gun rack where four guns rested , gleaming with care and beautiful . |
| 16 | The church tower loomed up from its promontory and beside it Theodora saw the solid block of the seventeenth-century Rectory . |
| 17 | And then a noticeboard similar to the one on the highway caught her attention , and beside it was an entrance to a tree-lined drive . |
| 18 | Under the window was an easel and a stool and beside it a battered chest of drawers . |
| 19 | His chair was there , and beside it his empty bottle , but Woolley had gone . |
| 20 | Inside an alcove was a fridge , and beside it a two-ring gas stove . |
| 21 | A brown-glass bottle of sleeping pills stood capless and empty on the bedside table , and beside it , lying on the top of a Georgette Heyer novel , was a short , soberly legible ( though unsigned ) note : |
| 22 | On the bedside table was a Gideon Bible , and beside it an entry form which , if and when completed and dispatched , would entitle the fortunate applicant to inclusion in a free draw for a ticket to one of the following summer 's golfing championships . |
| 23 | It was a high one , but although she was confident she could climb it , she knew that if she tried to do so she would risk being seen from the house ; but beside it was a shallow grassy ditch were she could remain out of sight , so bending double she ran along this ditch , and came to the spot where she had seen Tristram . |
| 24 | Something was burning out there , not in the car wreck … but beside it . |