Example sentences of "here and " in BNC.

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1 In November 1990 , the Government conceded that the Immigration ( Carriers Liability ) Act and associated visa requirements ‘ do indeed prevent some asylum seekers from coming to the UK ’ , but further stated that it ‘ has no obligation to encourage or assist would-be asylum seekers … to come here and enter our procedures ’ .
2 At the same time , both here and in Hawksmoor , Ackroyd , too , is his own man .
3 Face crushed face , but even the humiliated ones , the ones pushed away , the third-raters and the defeated ones , even those — from a certain distance imposed by the law of hierarchy , it 's true — still moved toward the front , showing here and there from behind the first-rate , titled ones , if only as fragments : an ear , a piece of temple , a cheek or a jaw … just to be closer to the Emperor 's eye !
4 Here and elsewhere , the method , for all that Amis would hate to hear it , is dialectical .
5 I have decided , however , in the interests of posterity , to cut nothing , though I may take the liberty of annotating the text here and there , putting some of the facts straight and referring the reader to related documents , such as interviews you once gave or books and articles on you which have since appeared .
6 Nevertheless I feel that I have a responsibility to the public and to the world of art both to present your unpublished writings in as comprehensible a form as possible , and at the same time to correct some of the misleading impressions these might give , not of course about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 .
7 And Dicky can take over as a footman — he may need a few lines changed here and there . ’
8 ‘ How many times do I have to tell you , Hawkins , my name 's Doctor Streeter , not Miss Streeter ; now come up here and wipe that filth off . ’
9 We 'll find a hotel where you can go for the night and then tomorrow you can come back here and talk to Kathleen .
10 Kathleen evidently ran things around here and nothing could be done without her say-so .
11 I kept wandering around for a few hours , with no idea where I was or where I was going , then somewhere along the line I chanced upon an open space where there was the odd bench scattered here and there and I used one of these for my lie-down .
12 Look , you stay here and I 'll be back as soon as it 's over .
13 She took the bones of Lucy 's text , then fleshed them out a little here and there .
14 ‘ I know you 're in love with me , ’ said Lucy , making a neat mound of cigarette ash , firming her hand against shaking , ‘ and I said it before , and I 'll say it here and now .
15 Here and now , just be here and now .
16 Here and now , just be here and now .
17 Making lunch for Lucy and Francis , giving her lifts here and there when her car was off the road , calling her just to see how she was , ordering her home when she looked exhausted , plying her with remedies if she had a cold , rubbing her back if she was tense .
18 A sort of hi I 'm here and how are you , have a nice day .
19 Or if you keep them , there are four hundred of us here and two thousand on their way , and we will cut you down to a man . ’
20 He had published his first book of poetry , Here And Now , in 1946 ; his second , Now Is The Place , in 1948 — shortly before Leonard chanced on Lorca 's poetry .
21 There are a large number of psycholinguists who would say that Fodor is overstating his case here and that parsing is indeed canalized by so-called ‘ real world knowledge ’ .
22 I invite you up here and all you think is whether the dyke is full of nitrates poisoning the villagers . ’
23 Their noise had stopped me sleeping : shouting , shattering glass , the word ‘ police ’ echoing here and there .
24 She asked me if I was happy here and I sighed .
25 They went into the kitchen and I started to tidy the room , gathering the plates from here and there and scattering the remains of the food on the window ledge .
26 Duncan buried himself in the paper and with an air of finality he said , — Well I 've got my job here and I 'm happy with it .
27 Her guides need to be adjusted regularly , a spot of oil here and there and a spot of grease here and there periodically .
28 Her guides need to be adjusted regularly , a spot of oil here and there and a spot of grease here and there periodically .
29 Whereas restorers in the past speculated on some of the missing elements and snapped in a few flowers here and there , we take the view that if it 's missing when we took the carving down then it will stay missing when we put it back up again .
30 Yet how better to characterise his transformation into a ‘ dear little donkey trotting here and there ’ with dainty feet ?
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