Example sentences of "here [conj] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Not unpleasant , perhaps , ’ he said thoughtfully , ‘ but you have n't exactly gone out of your way to make me feel welcome — either here or back at the television studio . ’
2 I had n't been thinking about her that much , just a few times a day , and seldom imagined that I 'd glimpse her here or there on the street , on a bus , in the Superette , in the hospital , on a passing aeroplane five miles high .
3 It seemed much colder here than out in the open .
4 ‘ Six months is neither here nor there in the scheme of things .
5 ‘ I thought we 'd be OK here until later in the morning , but the wind has shifted . ’
6 I had to leave the Chamber to attend a Select Committee and did not return here until halfway through the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun ( Mr. McKelvey ) .
7 ( Note that here and elsewhere in the book , underlined stretches of talk mean that it is phonologically and/or grammatically marked as " Creole " . )
8 here and here on the pupil
9 The application of seamanship to Smart 's release from potter 's madhouse in Bethnal Green strikes the reader with more force , however , than its addition here and there to the language of the psalms .
10 But the man who sat with her now in the huge heated conservatory that overlooked the gently foaming waters of the bay , dotted here and there with the lights of bobbing buoys , seemed relaxed and clearly in his element .
11 Here and there on the hillside I could see sheep and goats grazing among the wild flowers and stunted trees .
12 The Welsh Road , which appears here and there on the map of the Midlands , refers to this cross-country traffic .
13 He sighed regretfully as he picked his way slowly through the tattered refugees camped here and there on the floor , wondering what had become of his Louis XVI table .
14 And big mossy , fungus-like growths here and there on the shores .
15 Their daughter , Shelagh , has moved to Belfast where she has a job in an office but her younger brother , Sean helps here and there on the farm while he is looking for some other work , sadly without too much hope , since there is already much unemployment in the towns .
16 An old broken bicycle frame , some rusted railings , an old disintegrating metal gate … it had all been lying here and there on the property .
17 Here and there amid the chaos , delicate things have survived by chance .
18 The island 's coast is mainly rocky , but , except for the northerly crags , the coastal cliffs are low , thrusting out here and there into the sea to enclose small curved beaches .
19 The ground inside the arch was cobbled , and there were strangely shaped metal fittings set here and there into the walls .
20 We ran into the warm waves like little children , and swam and did duck dives and looked at the strangely corrugated sand under the water , and kept an eye open for jellyfish and pointed shells and silver fishes in the groves of coral that cropped up here and there along the sea bed .
21 Modern brick and concrete duplexes squatted here and there along the road , each with a few rows of vines trained along wires suspended from concrete posts behind them .
22 And there was and there was cairns where they used to rest the the coffin , cairns here and there along the route .
23 After dinner we would gossip , play cards or perhaps walk along the Dee , idly picking up a piece of driftwood here and there along the way .
24 They stopped and waited , dotted here and there about the slope .
25 What was more , his posters were displayed on every available space on the walls , and on fancy artists ' easels here and there between the cars .
26 Clouds of little-crested parrots and rose-breasted cockatoos swarmed upon the woods that were dotted here and there over the grasslands .
27 We went out into New York City and staggered here and there through the Village and drooled it all out in bar after bar .
28 There would still be a bit of clublife here and there through the alleyways , and the all-night gambling schools in Chinatown , though those were usually reserved for the Oriental abacus-for-brains fanatic .
29 Flutter here and there amongst the trees , sensing the life all around you — the plants , birds , animals and insects .
30 He thought that here and there in the slaves he could detect traces of an old lineage .
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