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Example sentences for "around here"

  • Why, thar was that old miner, Kunnel John Kracker, I jest reckon he spent as much as four months several times up around here, pokin' into the most unlikely places you ever heard tell of.

  • I jest don't like it around here, and that's what," they heard him say presently.

  • What-ever can Miss Townsend want to be around here for?

  • It must seem natural to you to be around here," Nancy ventured.

  • The holes seem to be getting worse up around here," remarked Bristles, after he had had to execute several speedy movements in order to avoid running into dangerous spots.

  • So you see that tells us the thief must be around here still.

  • Now, by that I reckon you mean wait and see if anything is pulled off again in town, or around here?

  • If Ackers went in below, he would strike the marsh, and in this way block his own progress but no doubt Ackers knew this, since he and his friends had been down to examine the course, and must have done considerable prowling around here.

  • It's always the safe thing to do around here.

  • They're goin' into it around here, they tell me.

  • If you're hangin' around here when I get through buyin' them things I'll be settin' them up to you.

  • He's been hangin' around here--for a month.

  • I wouldn't be around here much if I were you until he's got over it.

  • Aunt Julia, what are you waitin' around here for?

  • I don't want to see any loafin' around here, men.

  • Ther fellers what hev been guardin' ther herd at night we picked up around here when we drove ther herd up from ther South.

  • I have promised to go out to Colonel Billings' ranch to-morrow, and I took the liberty of accepting the invitation for you all, as there is nothing to do around here, and I have a hunch that something good will come of it.

  • It's too hot, as it is, around here now, and there's got to be a big enough noise made to attract attention to the other side of the fence and give us a breathing spell.

  • You go around here by that wall and cross over to the barn back of the garden.

  • We left him an hour ago and he promised to be around here, but he didn’t say where.

  • Well, there’s lots of good walkin’ around here; the roads is full of it.

  • Looks like there's something shady going on around here.

  • But I know one thing--there's something suspicious going on around here.

  • Fort Ticonderoga must be around here somewhere," said Pod.

  • You said somethin' about cattle-stealin' around here.

  • If any one asks what you're doin' around here, say as you come in with me.

  • Well, but what's he always crawlin' around here for?

  • Hey, you, Larry, what you hangin' around here for?

  • That don't explain why he should come prowlin' around here," pursued Abe.

  • We've bin told as he's bin spyin' around here an' tryin' to make friends with the dog.

  • What was his game prowlin' around here an' tryin' ter make friends with the dog?

  • Guess there's a lynx been prowlin' around here lately," he said to Rube, who was taking a practical lesson in the laying of traps.

  • We’ll be less noticeable doing that than hanging around here.

  • There must be something around here we can use to get out of these ropes.

  • Fact is, it was business that finally brought me around here.

  • I'll need somebody who knows his way around here, at first.

  • A lot of Rivers's, and everybody else's who's been fooling with it around here, and half the Wehrmacht.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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