Example sentences of "there in a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marooned there in a tide of little bodies |
| 2 | Captain Cook broached the forbidding shores of west New Guinea , and lost several men there in a fight with the Asmat cannibals , under circumstances similar to those in which he would later lose his own life in the Hawaiian Islands . |
| 3 | If he took the short cut across the beck , he would arrive there in a fraction of the time . |
| 4 | Most seemed to know what one should do there in a variety of situations in order to be an accepted member . |
| 5 | Yeah , I 've got my band playing down there in a couple of weeks . |
| 6 | They will remain there in a state of torpor , patiently awaiting the return of the rains . |
| 7 | ‘ She 's been lying there in a state of collapse , and not a soul has been next or nigh her ! ’ |
| 8 | This one posts are erected at a hundred metre intervals on a motorway , how many posts are there in a distance of four thousand seven hundred kilometres ? |
| 9 | All the old favourites are there in a medley of hits which , like him , have hardly failed to age over 30 years since they first hit the charts . |
| 10 | ‘ He just stood there in a cloud of smoke , ’ recalls one of the people first through the door after him , ‘ while they effed and blinded at him and told him what they thought of what had been going on in the hall . |
| 11 | DEC , Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM have yet to agree to adopt the software , but USL is trying to get their representatives there in a show of solidarity and support for the operating system . |
| 12 | I lay there in a sort of wonderment , listening to a rich world of sound about me . |
| 13 | You never saw such a frenzy as her frantic rush to dress herself , me pulling outfits from the wardrobe , she rejecting them as fast as they landed on the bed , trying on and discarding until she stood there in a stew of irritation and indecision in nothing but bra and panties . |
| 14 | The grypesh swam out after them , and there were battles fought there in a welter of blood and foam . |
| 15 | ‘ I glanced inside , and saw Froggy lying there in a pool of blood . |
| 16 | There in a pool of sunlight which flooded the storeroom stood a fat brown chicken with one corkscrew leg . |
| 17 | Its fallow years were between 1607 and 1858 , when the second history of Lourdes began , with the eighteen appearances of the Virgin Mary there in a grotto beside the river to a miller 's daughter , Bernadette Soubirous , which turned the town quite rapidly into the greatest pilgrimage centre of Roman Catholicism . |