Example sentences of "here [conj] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | ‘ Six months is neither here nor there in the scheme of things . |
3 | ‘ I thought we 'd be OK here until later in the morning , but the wind has shifted . ’ |
4 | 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 ) . |
5 | ( Note that here and elsewhere in the book , underlined stretches of talk mean that it is phonologically and/or grammatically marked as " Creole " . ) |
6 | here and here on the pupil |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Here and there on the hillside I could see sheep and goats grazing among the wild flowers and stunted trees . |
9 | The Welsh Road , which appears here and there on the map of the Midlands , refers to this cross-country traffic . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | An old broken bicycle frame , some rusted railings , an old disintegrating metal gate … it had all been lying here and there on the property . |
13 | Here and there amid the chaos , delicate things have survived by chance . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | And there was and there was cairns where they used to rest the the coffin , cairns here and there along the route . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | They stopped and waited , dotted here and there about the slope . |
20 | We went out into New York City and staggered here and there through the Village and drooled it all out in bar after bar . |
21 | The ceiling was painted a dark maroon , with tiny pin-points of light set here and there in the plaster to glow like stars in the night sky . |
22 | Nevertheless I feel that I have a responsibility to the public and to the world of art both to present your unpublished writings in as comprehensible a form as possible , and at the same time to correct some of the misleading impressions these might give , not of course about yourself , but about others , casually mentioned here and there in the course of your jottings . |
23 | Yet here and there in the Park , for those creatures with the inclination to look and take note , the first secret signs of spring were showing through . |
24 | Before dusk I had a look around and was surprised to come across several graves of British soldiers , here and there in the undergrowth . |
25 | From a herb border to a complete herb garden is not a very long step , and once the initial interest has been started with the planting of single plants here and there in the garden , it is not long before friends are giving one new species , other varieties are discovered at garden centres , and catalogues are found to list even more . |
26 | So I asked around , a word here and there in the sort of places where people hear things . |
27 | You 'd see them here and there in the city , cycling around on rallies , doing formation displays in the parks . |
28 | The walls were built of dark , rough stone , almost black , pitted here and there by the heat of the furnaces . |
29 | Here and there around the city . |
30 | 13 Update news from here and there around the group |