Example sentences of "here [conj] there [prep] [art] " 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 | She and Carolan had no children , but that was neither here nor there as an indication of matrimonial harmony nowadays . |
| 3 | ‘ Six months is neither here nor there in the scheme of things . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A comment here and there on a classic will not be out of place , but a list of recommended varieties is out ! |
| 7 | He was doing a bit of odd work here and there on an ad hoc basis , not musical work . |
| 8 | An old broken bicycle frame , some rusted railings , an old disintegrating metal gate … it had all been lying here and there on the property . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | To my delight , dotted here and there on the leafy verge were gleams of light , a pale luminous shining in the warm darkness . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Welsh Road , which appears here and there on the map of the Midlands , refers to this cross-country traffic . |
| 13 | And big mossy , fungus-like growths here and there on the shores . |
| 14 | Here and there on the hillside I could see sheep and goats grazing among the wild flowers and stunted trees . |
| 15 | Here and there amid the chaos , delicate things have survived by chance . |
| 16 | The ground inside the arch was cobbled , and there were strangely shaped metal fittings set here and there into the walls . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 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 | And there was and there was cairns where they used to rest the the coffin , cairns here and there along the route . |
| 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 | It seems his effort , which is what has taken two weeks ’ — he glanced at Jim Donaldson as he spoke — ‘ to portray himself as the guy trying to help Zack , and all the rest of us here and there as the bad guys making problems , has worked . |
| 23 | They stopped and waited , dotted here and there about the slope . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Clouds of little-crested parrots and rose-breasted cockatoos swarmed upon the woods that were dotted here and there over the grasslands . |
| 26 | We went out into New York City and staggered here and there through the Village and drooled it all out in bar after bar . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Flutter here and there amongst the trees , sensing the life all around you — the plants , birds , animals and insects . |
| 29 | We take our orders , issued here and there in a whisper . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |