Example sentences of "here [coord] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Here and there a fight broke out , girls screeched as someone goosed them , lovers clung together and ignored all that went on around them , pickpockets worked their art furiously and everyone set out to enjoy themselves .
2 Here and there a word emerged ; she thought she detected ‘ the ’ , ‘ and ’ and ‘ hope ’ through the fog of her panic .
3 Here and there a duckboard keeps your feet off the mud .
4 The rock hissed and cracked ; here and there a stone flew up , and the steam rose like smoke .
5 ‘ I found a good place on the bus , on the top deck , right at the front , where you can feel the warmth coming up through a grating ’ ( here and there a head nodded understandingly ) ‘ and see the view .
6 A few of the mounts shifted their feet ; here and there a rider slid his sword back and forth in its scabbard .
7 Evidently there was a market not far away , for there were plenty of housewives with shopping bags bulging with fresh vegetables and fruit , while here and there a businessman hurried through the crowd clutching his briefcase or sat scanning a newspaper over his coffee or cognac .
8 Here and there an effort has been made at renovation , but always in deplorable taste , ‘ Georgian ’ bay windows or Scandinavian-style pine porches clapped on to the Victorian and Edwardian facades .
9 Here and there the stuffing bulged , but for the most part it was in reasonable shape .
10 Here and there the way opened into glades , in one of which the woodmen had left the trunk of a once mighty beech .
11 Here and there the doctor had added a few words .
12 Here and there the line dividing them from the parish clergy may have become blurred , for some chantry certificates claimed , in 1545 , that the cantarist was the only minister available , and generally give the impression that they regularly shared the parish duties .
13 Here and there the advance had flowed around little bunches of markers , now isolated far behind the real Front .
14 Here and there the rain dripped through from above .
15 And then there was not much gro cereals grown here and then the mill stopped .
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