Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | However , my sense of superiority was soon punctured when I gave a paper on semantics at the Philological Society , where my views met with scepticism and some hostility . |
| 32 | where my biscuit when I come home |
| 33 | There 's the excitement of birthday cards in a new house , and a new school where my classroom is again a hut with a wood stove . |
| 34 | where my guest 's impeccable English might ring out |
| 35 | The effects of racism were not restricted to the USA , but were apparent in England too , where my focus now shifts . |
| 36 | That gap where my fireplace used to be , |
| 37 | The Dolphin , the Bermuda Suite , Club 93 , the Bingo hall , a large swimming pool , a Sports hall , Amusements , these are just some of the few things that are situated at Highfield Holiday Park , Clacton , where my family and I have been going on Holiday for 10 years . |
| 38 | There followed a period for the next 18 months where my family , having joined me from Yorkshire , came up to Scotland . |
| 39 | One of these many memories I find myself repeating , even today is to retrace our Sunday morning walks from my home in Pilrig , Leith , to a hotel near the Tron Kirk ( where my aunt worked as a housekeeper ) stopping first at a statue , halfway up the Mound , of a kilted figure representing the Black Watch who died in the Boer War . |
| 40 | If I can not go to my own home , let me have a home in some country where my people will not die so fast . |
| 41 | ‘ My name , where my office is , my toughest cases . |
| 42 | Dana and I slept together in the double bed in my bedroom , next to my parents ’ room , where my mother was sleeping with Aunt Lyallie . |
| 43 | During this time , the rest of the family might take a holiday — staying in the attic of Uncle Jim 's boarding house at Morecambe Bay , where my mother helped with the cooking and serving , or borrowing Auntie Mary 's caravan for a week at Saltburn . |
| 44 | I was born in 1902 in Windsor , where my father was head gardener on a small estate named Abbey House , and where my mother had been cook . |
| 45 | He was a student at the teacher 's training college where my mother , in her thirty-sixth year , took a job as a lecturer . |
| 46 | For the first year I had a room on campus but I was n't happy there so I returned to Cliff Top , where my mother put one of the caravans at my disposal . |
| 47 | I still had a formless feeling that she understood me where my mother did not . |
| 48 | I rushed home , where my mother was alone , but she knew already . |
| 49 | The short days were half over by the time I ventured from the hut ( where my motorbike was also preserved . |
| 50 | ‘ I landed on a lump of wood , felt another crash on to my face and was just getting up when a huge piece of glass fell where my neck had been . |
| 51 | Another day we returned to find an empty space where my harmonium should have been . |
| 52 | I 'd been in and out of hospitals , where my veins had been pumped full of glucose because I 'd refused to eat . |
| 53 | But when Geoff Hamilton handed me a chunk of Barnsdale to turn into a well-planted garden , I had to put my money where my mouth was . |
| 54 | ‘ I really love my job , ’ he says , ‘ and that has meant giving up the security of local government to seek a wider role , putting my money and reputation where my mouth is . |
| 55 | But I do intend to do it , and if it comes off I suppose I should put my money where my mouth is and offer up my effort for your appraisal . |
| 56 | Still , at least I put my bottle where my mouth is , not like those whingeing sods at ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 57 | I 'm prepared to put my money where my mouth is . ’ |
| 58 | We s tend to move the sentences around more and they lines sort of you know , Do you know where my shovel is , where my shovel is and erm , Who 's the day , asking how are you . |
| 59 | ‘ And then there was a kind of … blank space … where my death should have been . ’ |
| 60 | The day I went up to university I left you all , country gentry all … country where my father was stifling . |