Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By all the rules of the market , Hewlett-Packard Co 's HP 3000 business computer family should be going the way of the Wang Laboratories Inc VS and the Nixdorf Computer AG 8870 , but in defiance of crude market logic , the machine is going from strength to strength , bolstered by the company 's relaxed approach to migration to Unix : because HP 3000 users know they can relatively painlessly convert to Unix any time they choose , the majority are happy to stay right where they are , and the company claims that its high-end HP 3000 system business actually grew more than 50% last year , and the much-derided Posix interface is actually enabling it to pick up applications from Unix . |
| 2 | The Big Bang happened here right where we are . |
| 3 | ‘ Right where we want you , ’ a quiet voice completed her sentence from behind her . |
| 4 | The rest of us intend staying right where we are — and Meredith Putt will find he 'll not move us on without a fight . ’ |
| 5 | Right where your twelve comes from . |
| 6 | I stayed right where I was on the floor telling myself I 'd be fine in just a few minutes . |
| 7 | ‘ Aye , right where you sit , ’ Maggie replied quick as a flash , which earned a laugh from Susan . |
| 8 | Turn right where you see a waymark arrow and bear left crossing the stile around 150yds further on . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'll stay right where you are until I 've made you a hot drink . |
| 10 | Right where it meets which is there . |
| 11 | She avoided a car trying to turn right where it should not , and turned left . |
| 12 | When she 'd said she was worried about her superiors , he 'd felt like telling her that he had her superiors right where he wanted them , but he could n't . |
| 13 | He stayed right where he was until good manners forced her to offer to make him a drink too . |
| 14 | Talk may be cheap , but her time is expensive , and , unless I pay her , she prefers to stay right where she is . |
| 15 | And right where she did n't expect it in the black universe was another dark space , solid with hidden meanings , difficult to see , alien to her comprehension . |
| 16 | It probably matters little where we choose that point as long as it is not at infinity . |
| 17 | But it matters little where he plays ; he is a prolific try scorer from any position , as a career total of 247 touchdowns testifies . |
| 18 | ‘ Since I am not to see him or speak with him alone ever again , in truth it matters little where he is . ’ |
| 19 | Are all the rest of us to give up and sit on our hands rather than serve humbly where we deserve ? ’ |
| 20 | I could n't afford to go anywhere , I cant walk far , so I had to buy stuff locally where it was dearer because the bus fare was 64p . |
| 21 | I knew that Ben was a good enough footballer to play effectively where we wanted him . ’ |
| 22 | The following examples from China 's Panda Reserves illustrate ( a ) the use of adverbials to indicate time reference where necessary and feasible in a Chinese translation , and ( b ) the omission of time reference altogether where it can be inferred from the context or where the information is not felt to be important . |
| 23 | A bookshop should be a familiar place , somewhere where one goes for the sheer love of books , for the smell and feel of them , for the companionship of others who share the joy of touching , holding , reading and learning . |
| 24 | A total of 40.7% of respondents chose their last holiday on the basis that they had done the same before and enjoyed it ; 19.7% went somewhere where they had always wanted to go ; and 17.9% went on a word-of-mouth recommendation . |
| 25 | On the rare occasions when a site due to be destroyed is found to be very important , construction plans may be changed to accommodate the display of the site , or the remains might be moved to somewhere where they can preserved , displayed , and enjoyed by the public . |
| 26 | She opened her mouth to speak , but could not force the sounds out , could not manage to say to Rosalba that Tommaso had wanted her to give him a different rendezvous , somewhere where they could be alone . |
| 27 | If he can produce individuals who will come and have a discussion with him or with me , I bet that we could find somewhere where they could work , especially in a city such as London where jobs in the tourist industry , in the retail trade and in the back-up to that are still available . |
| 28 | You do seem to enjoy watching nude bathers , so do n't you think it would be much better for everyone involved if you went somewhere where they did n't mind being watched ? ’ |
| 29 | The option is to play somewhere where they can arrive at 2.45 and the ground is still empty . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I do think the courts should have powers to send really persistent , nasty little juvenile offenders away somewhere where they will be looked after better and where they will be educated , ’ Mr Clarke said . |