Example sentences of "[verb] where [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Outside the churches of St Cuthbert , he is allowing his men to ravage and rob where they wish , and at leisure . |
| 2 | The woman peered where she pointed , out into the night . |
| 3 | Li like a Ballard Test where you just put the little ring round the A B or C or D. |
| 4 | If he freezes that 's fine , your core unit can attack where it wants while the enemy units are dithering . |
| 5 | When Dad hires Shelly DeVoto ( Jamie Lee Curtis ) to do make up on his dead clients and starts to fancy her , Vada wonders where she stands in her father 's affections . |
| 6 | David Mead wonders where he found the bagpipes … |
| 7 | Wayne Gardner wonders where he went wrong after stacking his NSR . |
| 8 | She wonders where he is . |
| 9 | And he 's at it again when Downes hits him with whatever 's to hand ; kills him ; wonders where he 's going to dump the corpse ; ca n't dress him — far too difficult dressing a corpse — ’ |
| 10 | When I get back Lucker wonders where I have been all night . |
| 11 | One wonders where it will go . |
| 12 | Analgesics can assist where it is severe and prenatal training of the mother can help her learn to relax and reduce pain . |
| 13 | ‘ In due course , Roger , but surely you realise where we must go first ? ’ |
| 14 | I stand gasping for breath , as I realise where I am : stuck on a strip of concrete railway within a pair of electric rails , twenty feet above the ground . |
| 15 | Later the collision fenders were painted white to be seen in the blackout and sticky netting fixed to the window glass to prevent splintering ; there was a small diamond shaped hole in the centre , through which passengers were expected to discover where they were . |
| 16 | It took the English eleven days to discover where they were ; they planned an attack on the encampment , but were dissuaded and the only military action was a surprise move by the Earl of Douglas against the English camp . |
| 17 | She sought to discover where he had obtained the information he was supposed to have passed on to a Sunday newspaper . |
| 18 | " On the face of things it should be an ordinary police inquiry — and not a very difficult one — to find Andrew Stavanger , or , if he is abroad , at least to discover where he is . |
| 19 | They heard water cascading from broken gutters outside and the insistent drip , drip , drip where it had found its way in around a window . |
| 20 | Not that I was trying to hide where she came from , but I did n't want her to be singled out . |
| 21 | I wrote him a long note explaining where he was , what had happened and where Mum was . |
| 22 | Breeze had now recovered herself sufficiently to ask if she might ring up Susan , which she did — explaining where she was , but reserving the details till later . |
| 23 | We may need to grieve when we leave places where we have been happy and even places where we have been unhappy , like prisons or boarding schools . |
| 24 | Disabled people have to choose carefully places where they CAN go . |
| 25 | Disabled people have to choose carefully places where they CAN go . |
| 26 | Disabled people have to choose carefully places where they CAN go . |
| 27 | Just the one hitch : they 're always taking me places where I do n't want to go . |
| 28 | YOU have a chance to alter the top line ( membership ) , if not you , as members , can look at the expenditure sheet and suggest where we start making cuts . |
| 29 | They dressed and lit him against his character — softening where they ought to have emphasised the toughness — and they gave him a part with no verbal bite and no guts but even so it was not a bad first break for the boy from the snooker halls of Port Talbot . |
| 30 | Aware abruptly of what he had done , he held very still , not shifting a finger , above all not that index finger , as he opened his eyes , and looked where it pointed . |