Example sentences of "there by a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The female is attracted there by a colourful advertisement display given on the nest itself .
2 They had been imprisoned there by a long dead ruler , Llud .
3 The white cylinder in question may not be a piece of chalk but a carefully contrived fake placed there by a scheming pupil in search of amusement .
4 The first survivors who reached the shore regrouped up the estuary past the bony tangles of mangrove in the forest at the arranged meeting place ; they were met there by a waiting group of islanders , men and women , ready to re-arm them and send them into battle .
5 On the village green is a stone block said to have been placed there by a local lord of short stature , to help him mount his horse .
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