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there is, there are places (where something happens) ☊

like: có nơi → →

+ speech: 'And don't be late,' she added. ☊ add ☊
She spoke with characteristic enthusiasm. ☊ characteristic ☊
'It's only a suspicion,' she said, 'nothing concrete.' ☊ concrete ☊
She couldn't decide whether he was telling the truth or not. ☊ decide ☊
She told him she was filing for divorce. ☊ divorce ☊
'I don't mind,' she said, without much enthusiasm. ☊ enthusiasm ☊
'Excuse me for a moment,' she said and left the room. ☊ excuse me ☊
She spoke with feeling about the plight of the homeless. ☊ feeling ☊
find sb/sth: I wanted to talk to him but he was nowhere to be found. ☊ find ☊
'I can manage,' she said firmly. ☊ firmly ☊
She spoke with force and deliberation. ☊ force ☊
She spoke with heavy irony. ☊ heavy ☊
She speaks highly of you. ☊ highly ☊
She spoke for 20 minutes without interruption. ☊ interruption ☊
She spoke kindly to them. ☊ kindly ☊
She spoke in a very loud voice. ☊ loud ☊
Mark is one of the lucky ones—he at least has somewhere to sleep. ☊ lucky ☊
'What a mess!' she said, surveying the scene after the party. ☊ mess ☊
I don't know if he's telling the truth or not. ☊ not ☊
We discussed it all morning but got nowhere. ☊ get/go nowhere, get sb nowhere ☊
The children were nowhere to be seen. ☊ nowhere to be found/seen, nowhere in sight ☊
'There won't be anywhere to park.' 'Oh, that's a (good) point.' (= I had not thought of that) ☊ point ☊
'That's my mother,' she said, pointing at a photo on the wall. ☊ point ☊
'I've had a wonderful life,' she said, 'I don't regret a thing.' ☊ regret ☊
She said this in the tone of voice she reserved for addressing small children. ☊ reserve ☊
She told me the whole story from soup to nuts. ☊ from soup to nuts ☊
Do you speak English? ☊ speak ☊
Did she tell you her name? ☊ tell ☊
Are you telling me you didn't have any help with this? (= I don't believe what you have said) ☊ tell ☊
'Thank goodness for that!' she said with a sigh of relief. ☊ thank God/goodness/heaven(s) (for sth) ☊
She spoke without much enthusiasm. ☊ without ☊