Example sentences of "there [vb -s] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the centre of their hive there sits a queen , radiating her implacable commands through the labyrinthine tunnels . |
| 2 | ‘ Now , lads , there goes a mad bastard if ever there was one . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ There goes a white boy , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Then he left her , and she watched him go : he had yellow hair , unmistakable yellow hair , and she said to herself , there goes a public school boy . |
| 5 | Those who use them in this way thereby manifest their own acceptance of them as guiding rules and with this attitude there goes a characteristic vocabulary different from the natural expressions of the external point of view . |
| 6 | There goes a woman who would dance on her enemy 's grave , he thought , curious and thoughtful . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , ’ Melissa murmured aloud as she listened to his footsteps pattering through the hall , followed by the slam of the outer door , ‘ there goes a man with a guilty secret . |
| 8 | But once he was safely out of sight , these same strangers unclenched their buttocks and declared that ‘ there goes a wrong'n if ever there was , who 'll end in a gallows dance . ’ |
| 9 | There goes a genius who works miracles ; from a single key he 'd extract enough to write the whole Opera . |
| 10 | Aha , here comes a car , there goes a car , vroom , Renault da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da have you said to your dad get Sky yet ? |
| 11 | Ho ho ho , ah God can you imagine that , Christ , aha here comes a car , there goes a car we are now in a country lane , looking out on the odd passing car bom , bom , bom , bom , bom I do n't know about Jessica and Rebecca actually |
| 12 | Are n't there causes a little closer to home they could be investigating ? |
| 13 | Let us suppose that to each positive integer n there corresponds a statement which we denote by S(n) . |
| 14 | For instance , the sound ‘ tree ’ that I hear is the signifier , to which there corresponds a signified tree in the sense of the concept that the sound evokes in my mind . |
| 15 | The term ‘ participant observation ’ is commonly used to describe rather different sorts of research methods , and in the very diffuseness of methods used under this umbrella term there lies a danger . |
| 16 | Between geologist and geology there lies a daunting barrier : the deep and rolling ocean . |
| 17 | But behind this there lies a period , obscurely documented , in which there was far greater freedom and equality among the cities — an era brought to a sharp end by the threat of foreign conquest , which drew the Greek cities together in heroic resistance to the Persian invaders — and thus began the process which ended in the effective dominance of Sparta and Athens over their neighbours . |
| 18 | Typically , in between there are such doubtful cases as ‘ built a boat ’ — just alliteration , or assonance as well ? — while over the whole poem there lies a web of grammatical repetitions and variations , also never quite exact — ‘ her sails ( he wove ) of silver fair , /of silver ( were ) her lanterns ( made ) , or later ‘ his sword ( of steel ) was valiant , / ( of adamant ) his helmet tall ’ . |
| 19 | Yet in this latter ambition there lies a danger . |
| 20 | What one should however point to is that the critique of western culture which in recent years has been mounted by feminists has not been understood or appropriated — and that in this there lies a certain blindness . |
| 21 | There lies a group of stones deposited by the glacier , the largest of which , the Carlow Stone , is said to have been used by the druids for human sacrifice . |
| 22 | However , there lies a problem beneath the labels . |
| 23 | Thus , beneath what may seem to be pure escapist entertainment , there lies a deep psychological truth . |
| 24 | ‘ Their minds are like trains going along a track which here and there has a broken connection , ’ said the nurse . |
| 25 | Despite the formidable interpretational problems of applying quantal analysis to central synapses , there has a been a resurgence of interest in the use of this technique to analyse the locus of expression of LTP . |
| 26 | Would my right hon. Friend feel able to lead a crusade with other European countries to put pressure on the Governments of central and south America so that every child there has a home , food , clothing and education and is not allowed to fall prey to the worst excesses of human nature ? |
| 27 | ‘ Then there starts a game whose aim is to reverse the bank 's assessment . ’ |
| 28 | In the pond there lives a grass snake , which will emerge at some random point on the surface , and eat whichever frog is closest to it . |
| 29 | In its place there stands a new Ballistic Missile Defence Organisation which employs the same people to do the same things with the same money — $1.8 billion requested for the next year . |
| 30 | Bauen was the birthplace of the composer of the Swiss national anthem to whose memory there stands a small monument in the village . |