Example sentences of "here and [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 A great deal of research on the problem has already been carried out here and abroad but the findings are rarely understood even in Whitehall .
2 Well not as many , er there is the odd break in here and there but no one has had the sort of amount that I have erm
3 I had been able to have a couple of hours ' sleep here and there since the landings and , most important , I was able to move around more or less as I wanted to .
4 The accompaniment sounds very well when it is hummed , with perhaps a few words here and there while the solo part rests , or to join with it at a point of culmination .
5 Her guides need to be adjusted regularly , a spot of oil here and there and a spot of grease here and there periodically .
6 But early yet and a kind of hush , just scattered bodies here and there and a rag-glad snore on the floor , in the sawdust .
7 Sawdust in the gear-boxes , the electric-drill on the speedometer cables , a splash of paint here and there and a few other clever little tricks and the idiots were all falling over themselves to buy . ’
8 Peeling and torn adverts advertise the ‘ Summer Sun ’ a middle aged woman , in a tweed suit looks up and reads it as an excuse to turn away from her neighbour , an ‘ undesirable type ’ or a young again middle aged man greased back hair , a black fake leather jacket with sheep skin bits appearing here and there and a necklace protruding from his left nostril eventually attaching itself to his right ear .
9 They are mainly culled from old and sometimes dubious material , but there 's a bargain here and there and the trend is welcomed by hard-up punters .
10 How it 's here and there and the other the other sort of hear you hear with your ear and it 's got an ear inside it .
11 The chateau was like many of its kind , stained by war here and there when the English ( or the Goddamns , as the French call us ) had tried to conquer Northern France , nothing remarkable .
12 Here and there where the ground was more open near the lake-edge there were signs of cultivation as though someone with crude implements had scratched and dug a little to encourage nature , already prodigal , to do better still .
13 On the Lantonment and river sides of the banqueting hall there had been no firing of chain shot to clear the jungle : this was partly to save powder , partly because the banqueting hall was , anyway , higher than the surrounding land and thus more difficult to surprise ; there were also natural clearings to be seen here and there where the ground was too stony for a thick growth .
14 But would n't it be a wonderful New Year gesture if the Government declared here and now that the first few million will be set aside to save St Bart 's .
15 Bearing in mind these remarks you might try to prove here and now that the numerically largest common divisor d of a and b , as described above , is indeed their ( positive ) gcd .
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