Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] where " in BNC.

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1 One afternoon I completed another unsuccessful attempt at a cannon : I had no sooner moved away than the pipe crashed down exactly where I had been standing .
2 On fine days they would walk the length of the creek , down past where it trickled under Deptford Bridge into the sports field at Saint Johns .
3 The slow movement is a highly introspective affair , never afraid to dig in deep where others merely navigate surface implications .
4 No you 're looking at the wrong one , this eight down here where it says eight and then there 's an O and a Z , that 's eight ounces which is about two and something grams , we 're not worried about grams today , in ounces , oh , think that will be enough ?
5 £ But I think to give us perhaps a more vivid idea of what it must have been like for ordinary people , these are 3 houses in St Aldate 's that do n't exist any more , they 're down more-or-less where the police station is , erm and we do know exactly who lived there , and who was actually there during the war .
6 A : It 's difficult to pin down precisely where you 've gone wrong without knowing what you typed in at the command line to begin restoring .
7 This yard was just a kind of higgledy-piggledy yard with a with a a wall along there where you 're standing and a few lean-tos .
8 He says : ‘ I can manage — course I ca n't live down there where I was .
9 I try not to clutch my pelvis , down there where the rot is .
10 The family may look forward to the first visit home , assuming that everything can go on exactly where it left off .
11 The women would take Nessie back to the house and they 'd all meet there again for something to eat and they 'd start all over again where they left off .
12 And anyhow , ’ he ended with a trace of a grin , ‘ even though I was n't admitting the power you had over me , I think that even then I subconsciously did n't want you driving off anywhere where I might not easily find you . ’
13 While one may whizz straight through the enemy , and another might stall in front of your Mob , the other one is bound to end up somewhere where you want him .
14 She looked up suddenly where a shower of blossom swirled from the cherry-boughs .
15 It was as if a couple of animals hounded from one burrow , nest or lair had im-mediately taken possession of another and started up just where they had left off .
16 To his right the hill rose up above where he stood , then fell again to meet the next turn of the river .
17 It pulled up exactly where they intended to and out got a drenched Barbara Coleman who scuffled through the nearest doorway .
18 You could also erm , start to recognize the benefit of the rural sector , and one reason why they were discriminating , L D Cs tended to want to ignore that and sort of shun it , because it 's not sort of a glamorous image they were trying to hope for in the urban sector , and , so , if they did help them , say give them units , like the repair men , units to work in , and they put them in really totally crappy accommodation , and up not where you need it , and not where people pass by with their motors and things , they , they 'd put them somewhere up on a hill , overlooking a city , so erm , to encourage the informal sector by erm , sort of on a par with the formal sector because erm , their inter- reacting , inter-relating now , like they 're providing cheap inputs for the formal industries and , and the formal industries are pro providing clientele all for the informal sector , and so it 's all inter-linked and , and it 's there now .
19 So she had sought to avoid it , only to end up back where she had started .
20 Third place went to Denis McCullough but the hard luck story of the race belonged to Phelim Owens who had to take a slip road at Cardy Corner when lying fourth then rejoined the race in 10th place before ending up back where he had started — in fourth place .
21 There was no trace of his usual cheekiness , either because he was seriously worried about his son or simply because he had no need to defend himself up here where he was in his element and they were out of theirs .
22 It was an unexpectedly tender insight on the part of the Arabs to accommodate their infants up here where it was airy and cool .
23 So erm and then it really wants , it 's it 's up here where it 's so
24 " There are places up there where he could have been put in all right without attracting too much attention . "
25 ‘ Take a look up there where the killer must have stood or knelt . ’
26 The line being spoken is always in the same spot , so that if he turns his head from a familiar sentence he can be confident that he will be able to pick up again where he left off .
27 Maybe whoever buys the house will set her up again where she can see Narcissus — and much good did that ever do the poor girl . ’
28 She could imagine it all back at Les Hiboux — was already planning out loud where she would place the various pieces , while Rohan and Monsieur Pallon exchanged indulgent glances , and settled the details of how and where it was all to be delivered .
29 The first two stages may be successfully carried out only where reliable market information is publicly available .
30 Both replication and review can be carried out only where a full and detailed record of the original experiment is provided .
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