adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
come here
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Can you come here for a minute?
got here in one piece
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Ring Mum and let her know we got here in one piece .
here comes sb/sth spoken (= used to say that someone or something is coming towards you )
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Ah, here comes the bus at last!
Here lies (= written on a gravestone )
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Here lies Percival Smythe .
I'm a Celebrity ... Get me Out of Here!
live here
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Does Paul still live here ?
over here
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Come over here and see what I’ve found.
right here/there
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I left my bags right here.
round here
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Do you live round here ?
somewhere near here
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I’m sure they live somewhere near here .
stay here/there
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Stay right there! I’ll be back in a minute.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
come
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We here came to a central issue in all our discussions.
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What about all the people who come here from other countries?
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The gunmen and the survivors who came here , the photographers and correspondents and film crews simply walked on to the theatrical stage.
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Before Friant, Hollywood stars like Clark Gable used to come here to duck hunt.
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Cheque books at the ready, pop kids, here comes the nitty gritty.
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They paid a lot of money for me to come here .
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They didn't come here to be monsters, presumably.
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But now only a handful of his old clients ever called him and even fewer came here .
live
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He's thinking about how if his lover comes to live here , then that's not how the story will end.
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Langston, a sophomore at Mountain View High, started in archery when she first lived here .
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The people living here know it's my place.
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And why not -- the small contractors and craftspeople who live here know how important it is to keep our city livable.
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By the year 2020 there will be 8 billion people living here .
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Unfortunately, after 11 years living here , I too am becoming discouraged.
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I've lived here longer than you.
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I hope they do not think that I will live here for ever.
sit
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And now I sit here , in Fotheringhay Castle, and wait for her to answer.
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John Chico sat here , Alice Puerala sat here.
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We sit here , comfortably wrapped up by the night.
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Nancy, sit here with me.
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When I sit here with the laibon and his family I feel envious of their flimsy values.
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You can't sit here laughing like this, you know.
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She wanted to sit here , and stare at this view, which was much better than hospital.
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What am I saying as we sit here talking about this rather strange difficulty that we find ourselves in?
stay
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Had Kit and Astrid stayed here too, before they left her behind?
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Perhaps you'd rather stay here and read your riveting book.
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Had it not been for Nagji, they would have had to pay anything up to twenty thousand rupees to stay here .
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No, you both stay here and talk to Charles.
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It is early autumn, the lake is deep and cold, the soldiers can not stay here for ever.
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Do you want to stay here ?
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What we know is that we can not move away, so we have to stay here and get used to it.
work
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The greatest of his achievements is that he is working here .
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Furthermore, you do not work here .
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The chefs and waiters will work here for a year.
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They have people up here working on this stuff day and night.
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You've been plaguing the life out of me and everybody else for as long as I've worked here .
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Many of the guys in the group all work here in the plant.
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Unless you work here , however, there is no public access, except to the marble atrium.
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My brother was already down here working for an electrician, and I got a job there too.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be all downhill (from here)/be downhill all the way (from here)
be here to stay
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He believed that Money Advice was here to stay , whatever happened to the economy.
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Hence the extent to which Conservative criminology is here to stay depends on more than mere changes of political parties.
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Managed care is here to stay , experts at the conference agreed Wednesday.
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Perhaps it is time we had a choice between parties which agree that liberal free-market economics are here to stay .
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Running is here to stay , even if Baby is gone.
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Teams are here to stay , and participating in them is the only option.
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The Classics is here to stay .
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Without question, the Africanized bees are here to stay .
be neither here nor there
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It's true we're not friends but that's neither here nor there. We're still able to work together.
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What Cheng's intentions were is neither here nor there. What matters is what he did.
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What I think about your husband is neither here nor there.
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Art was neither here nor there; money was the issue.
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But that was neither here nor there.
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Dinner half an hour earlier or later was neither here nor there.
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She and Carolan had no children, but that was neither here nor there as an indication of matrimonial harmony nowadays.
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That he was not in the category ordained by the Marketing Department for the evening was neither here nor there.
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The cost would be borne by Grunte Accessories, but that was neither here nor there.
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The fact that she hadn't seen her prospective husband since she was ten was neither here nor there.
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The fact that you fantasise about a woman rather than a man is neither here nor there in these circumstances.
be up to here
here's mud in your eye
here/there sb goes again
it's the same story here/there/in ...
look here
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Look here, you can't say things like that to me!
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But look here, brother, I said.
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But look here, in-between is precisely where you seem to have stationed yourself.
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But do not look here for specific advice.
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I shall be looking here at the effect of adjusting their published accounts between 1972 and 1991 to allow for inflation.
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Let me look here in front of me.
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Now look here, if you're reading this, who's grooming the badgers for the badger parade?
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So why look here for schools that work?
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Well, then, look here.
look who's here!
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Well, look who's here! It's Jill and Paul!
same here
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"I'm really thirsty." "Yeah, same here."
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But there are no plans to do the same here.
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I will do the same here with my stack of left halves.
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It's the same here in the home.
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It's the same here, but they do all get listened to and they get a reply.
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The smash sequel has already taken the United States by storm and is now doing the same here.
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The stars looked almost the same here as they did on the other side of the world.
the buck stops here
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It was my decision to close the hospital; the buck stops with me.
there's/here's the rub
where does sb/sth go from here?
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He has just turned 25 years old and the question is: Where does he go from here?
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So where does Dirk go from here?
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The question now is, where does UMass go from here?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Where are you?" "I'm down here in the basement."
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Did you grow up around here ?
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How far is Denver from here ?
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I'll stay here and wait for the others.
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I know a good Japanese restaurant not far from here .
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I love it here - it's so quiet and peaceful near the ocean.
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I think Jeff lives somewhere near here .
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If we win this game, it should be pretty easy from here .
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Ken was supposed to be here at ten.
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Let's eat here .
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The keys were right here 15 minutes ago. Where did they go?
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The real question here is whether he is qualified for the job.
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They got here about 15 minutes before you did.
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We've lived here for over a year now.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But then Gillian came along, and everything starts here .
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I don't want to be anywhere near here when the sun comes up.
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Now that she thought about it, he was just about the only person here whom she felt like trusting with Anna.
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Or do you think he would like to come here ?
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Such decisions should not be made here .
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They were right here , all around him, every day.
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This is not what we are talking about here .
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You don't live here and now.