Example sentences of "here [coord] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " 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 ( Note that here and elsewhere in the book , underlined stretches of talk mean that it is phonologically and/or grammatically marked as " Creole " . )
5 here and here on the pupil
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 A comment here and there on a classic will not be out of place , but a list of recommended varieties is out !
9 Here and there on the hillside I could see sheep and goats grazing among the wild flowers and stunted trees .
10 The Welsh Road , which appears here and there on the map of the Midlands , refers to this cross-country traffic .
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 And big mossy , fungus-like growths here and there on the shores .
13 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 .
14 An old broken bicycle frame , some rusted railings , an old disintegrating metal gate … it had all been lying here and there on the property .
15 Here and there amid the chaos , delicate things have survived by chance .
16 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 .
17 The ground inside the arch was cobbled , and there were strangely shaped metal fittings set here and there into the walls .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 And there was and there was cairns where they used to rest the the coffin , cairns here and there along the route .
21 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 .
22 They stopped and waited , dotted here and there about the slope .
23 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 .
24 Clouds of little-crested parrots and rose-breasted cockatoos swarmed upon the woods that were dotted here and there over the grasslands .
25 We went out into New York City and staggered here and there through the Village and drooled it all out in bar after bar .
26 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 .
27 Flutter here and there amongst the trees , sensing the life all around you — the plants , birds , animals and insects .
28 We take our orders , issued here and there in a whisper . ’
29 He thought that here and there in the slaves he could detect traces of an old lineage .
30 There have been improvements here and there in the East European countries , but generally speaking they distribute sulphur dioxide to their own fields and cities and to the countries downwind of them as liberally as they ever did .
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