Example sentences of "here and [adv] [art] [noun sg] " 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 | The shadows provided some relief , and here and there a man or a donkey dozed in one . |
6 | I shuffled down the shingle until I felt the mush of dry seaweed , and then I explored it with my hands — yes , it was just the stuff one would expect , weed , and here and there a bit of wood . |
7 | ‘ 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 . |
8 | Even a little food could be had at a pinch , for here and there were a few pale twists of grass and here and there a dandelion . |
9 | Here and there a Marco or Giuseppe . |
10 | A few of the mounts shifted their feet ; here and there a rider slid his sword back and forth in its scabbard . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Here and there the stuffing bulged , but for the most part it was in reasonable shape . |
14 | Here and there the way opened into glades , in one of which the woodmen had left the trunk of a once mighty beech . |
15 | Here and there the head of a child was seen peering over a windowsill . |
16 | There were cigarette burns on the carpet , and here and there the brown of the walls had been rubbed away to reveal a pinkish surface beneath . |
17 | But today the real sea looked wonderful , silken , with a gentle running glitter where the tide moved , and here and there the tilt and flash of white wings in the sunlight as the gulls sailed out from the cliffs . |
18 | Here and there the doctor had added a few words . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Here and there the limestone that cropped out among the heather and rough grass on the ridge above broke through the grass and mould in stony patches , fretted away occasionally into small scattered boulders , bedded into the turf and moss . |
21 | Here and there the advance had flowed around little bunches of markers , now isolated far behind the real Front . |
22 | Here and there the rain dripped through from above . |
23 | And then there was not much gro cereals grown here and then the mill stopped . |
24 | There 's only the local GP here and twice a week a doctor from Poggibonsi does a round . |