Example sentences of "[adv prt] there [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 At the sound of her mother 's voice , faint but even at this distance still accusing , away down there on the snow-covered lawn , Alexandra drew away from the window into the shadows of the room behind .
2 You just turn the key down there on the right hand side . "
3 Lynn Carter had put in her time down there on the sexual shop floor — there were two teenage sons to prove it — but now she 'd taken early retirement .
4 I mean , these metal strips are down there for the public entertainment license , they were n't gon na give us it because the carpet was lifting .
5 Down there in the front room .
6 Luv to all down there in the Eternal City and be assured I turn a deaf ear to the rumours that it is a cesspit .
7 ’ Will you mind working down there in the new building then ? ’
8 ‘ Ah just like to know the company Ah 'll be keepin' down there in the Southern Ocean . ’
9 Verger it may have seemed once , down there in the sunlit nave … but up in the spaces … with no one to witness … it no longer needed that shape .
10 Even down there in the coastal flatlands it was a wild night .
11 Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG now looks as if it is right down there in the corporate basket case category : after some three years of substantial losses , Siemens AG chairman Heinrich von Pierer now says that an effort is being made to ensure that its return to profit ‘ does n't take much longer than three years ; ’ its biggest problem is that the pain of customers starting to go stone cold on mainframes has scarcely begun yet in Germany .
12 Howard 's heart goes out to them — to Michael and Myra , to Jack and Miriam , to Roy and Prue — to all of them down there in the glittering darkness .
13 Emil beckoned me towards the kitchen end , and I went up there into the small lobby with a serving counter , a space that made a needed gap between the hot glittering galley and the actual dining area .
14 Meanwhile Saddam Hussein massed troops in northern Iraq in apparent preparation , said the United States , for an attack on the ‘ safe haven ’ set up there for the Iraqi Kurds .
15 Right up there to the yellow books .
16 Okay , Jesus is the Son of God , poor old Joseph is just a kind of surrogate father erm , you know like a test-tube baby father actually test tube er is er is like you know er a complete surrogate father er for God erm they 're threatened by Herod so they have to flee to Egypt and er then they come back and eventually Jesus realizes who he is and after a long struggle with good and evil , temptation at the desert , crucifixion and God knows what , erm off he goes back to you know , sitting up there on the right hand of God saying you know I 'm the Son of God which he is , so Oedipus , Oedipus is expelled by his parents , there 's a prophecy he will murder his father and marry his mother , so they get rid of him , but he does n't die , he gets found by a shepherd , brought up by a shepherd .
17 Up there on the top step , looking down on Lucenzo 's bright fair head , she felt as if she stood on the brink of a great change in her life .
18 Never my best feature , my face is still swollen , up there on the left-hand side .
19 And of course er w wondered if this Land Rover would go up there with the four wheel drive .
20 that wax that we made up there with the antique wax has n't turned out as well it did with Mansion polish so when you make it up
21 ‘ If we want to be up there with the big boys then let's study and use their tactics . ’
22 I visited the local Oxfordshire set ups , that 's Williams , Benneton and Leyton House in the last couple of weeks , and all of them say ‘ Eddy 's got a good car , a good chassis , a good engine and he 's got good finance ’ , and they expect him to be right up there with the big names from the start .
23 Afterwards she admitted : ‘ That ranks right up there with the worst losses of my career .
24 They then moved west to a new holding area at Bir Zalten , sixty miles south of the German positions at El Agheila , which had been recced by Mike Sadler who had flown up there during the first week in November .
25 Up there among the coach-house windows it was all swimming light , free-style , and tolerance of the noise and warmth of the human commerce below .
26 There were too many mirrors in the house : long , thin ones in polished mahogany frames , round ones , oval ones , and the gigantic mirror up there in the dark studio .
27 Dot knew there must be people up there in the vulnerable places on the top floor because on their way through the draughty corridors they passed the lift-shafts , each with its rattling metal cage and fearful loops of cable and black rope dangling beneath like greasy snakes .
28 And we were the ones who put them up there in the first place .
29 ‘ He should n't have put his finger up there in the first place .
30 But when we tol When we told us they said Oh they 'd have come down to match the nearest competitor , and we thought oh why did he quote up there in the first place then .
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