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Inversion after place adjuncts 

336b

Particularly in very formal and literary styles, inversion of subject and lexical verb

may occur after a front-placed adjunct denoting location:

In the corner

stood another man of the law

, by his isolation and beribboned

uniform clearly one of a higher rank.

Out of the dark, away to my right, 

came the roar of a pneumatic drill

.

This does occur occasionally in informal speech, especially with frequent

expressions such as here comes and there goes:

Here comes the bus.

There goes the phone. 

(often said when a phone starts to ring)

[telling a story about a crime and the arrival of a police helicopter]

Out comes the helicopter, hovering over everybody’s house, waking 

everybody up. 

A–Z

45 Here, there

hardly

little* 

on no account

on no occasion

scarcely

seldom

under no

circumstances