Example sentences of "[adv] there [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There was place enough there for a knight , after the archers had done their work .
2 Enough there for a painting — but for the most part there is an awful lot of nothing and no canvas seems big enough to contain it .
3 I ca n't say for sure ; I mean , I was only there for a second or two …
4 you 're only there for an hour or so you may have , I do n't know , twenty minutes of appropriate sociability which builds a rapport tremendously well
5 But his gesture was shrugged off by organisers of the 40-nation conference because Karadzic was only there as an observer .
6 ‘ Ca n't say I do , but you must 98 remember I 'm only there in a freelance capacity .
7 He trudges along there on a Sunday , in hat , tie , dark suit .
8 He tapped the desk as though it was all there in a diagram that I should have already looked at .
9 See well , you could er I still went with the horse and cart down there on a Saturday , take the meat , still the same I done that for a year or two .
10 I 'll have to go down there on a Saturday , my mum said she 'd take me down there .
11 ‘ Government ’ , Denys Finch Hatton wrote to his friend Kermit Roosevelt , ' … panicked and sent for Delamere who seems to have gone down there with a boy and a cook and settled the whole thing . ’
12 We 'd be down there with a load and they used to come along and inspect it .
13 Settled down there for a while .
14 As we said earlier on , he had been they had been travelling through and Jesus had se settled down there for a while and sent his disciples into a , th a nearby town across the frontier , er to get some food and some provisions , er to last them for the remainder of their journey and Jesus is just sitting there by this well , he 's tired , he 's thirsty , weary and hungry , just waiting there and then this lady comes to draw water from the well .
15 You see , I 'd mentioned the fact that I 'd seen this chap several mornings hanging about in the Cove , so I decided not to take Miss Celia down there for a bit , even though we were having a real Indian summer that year .
16 Yeah yes the we went to we used to go down there for a day to Skeggie .
17 So we were able to tell how many tickets of certain classes were sold each day but not route by route , we 'd lost that that facility because the waybills just were n't big enough and of course the , wa everything got mechanical but now I mean I do n't profess to know anything about what happens now but I was introduced to it when I went down there for a retirement and believe me it 's , it 's all electronics now they can tell how a ticket machine is issuing tickets at any particular one day by this , this electronic business , this computers .
18 From her they had learned that Jerome Fanshawe had a bungalow at Eastover between Eastbourne and Seaford and that he and his wife and daughter had driven down there for a week 's holiday on May 17th .
19 His mother reassured him , 'people often go down there with their dogs ; do n't worry , I 'm sure he would n't hurt you , but perhaps you should n't go down there for a week or two , David . ’
20 In fact , we did go down there for a week to explore the possibilities , and I admitted that it was n't what it was and that the rosy glow that still suffused me at the very name was probably nostalgia for my touring days , when it was the most prestigious of all the dates .
21 I mean he said down Southall Road they was always claiming down there for an armchair
22 I was supposed to have a meeting on with erm , a couple of guys from the British Coal Enterprise down in Middlesbrough with , but unfortunately again the weather caught all of them out and they decided not to come , but did n't occur to them to say they would n't come , so I sat down there for an hour , and eventually managed to find a phone number and get in contact and the guy was still there , and he said oh no I 'm not coming up .
23 we were gon na go down there , but erm nan and granddad had been down there about a fortnight ago and they said they had n't got a lot out yet , they said they would n't be out for about another three weeks , so about
24 I went down there about a month ago say hello to them all .
25 Yeah , I 've got my band playing down there in a couple of weeks .
26 ‘ Two men to get out of a van down there in a minute 's time and tell my father that Sean Walsh is a criminal wanted for six murders in Dublin and that he has to be handcuffed and out of there this instant . ’
27 You 'll be back down there in a minute !
28 Terribly fast , it was er , er , over his left shoulder going down there like a rate of knots and he 's now telling the other slips , putting his left hand showing where it might have gone .
29 Fox was already there with a pharmacologist from the country hospital who was looking at Alfred 's stock of drugs with a view to discovering a possible source of the poison .
30 There is a token female on the adventure but she 's just there as a conversation point and to be rescued from the unwanted advances of unshaven cowboys ( ‘ This is not a very 90 's man thing , ’ Crystal warns them ) .
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