Example sentences of "where [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I 'm much taken Mrs er by your reference to there being Lots of nooks and crannies where limited built development might go without causing harm to the character and setting of York . |
| 2 | There are cases like ( 141 ) , where make evokes a form of coercion : ( 147 ) — " Big Hans made me come . |
| 3 | Example ( 126 ) , however , is perfectly normal English , as confirmed by the following contexts where make denotes unintentional causation : ( 127 ) Oops ! |
| 4 | And on that it will say an R for return or whatever and give the girls instructions as to where to go to pick |
| 5 | The county bird club will probably produce an annual report — ask at the library or contact the RSPB regional office — and that will help you to find out where to go to see birds , which is one of the most difficult things to discover without something or someone to point you , literally , in the right direction . |
| 6 | It meant they knew exactly where to go looking for them . ’ |
| 7 | For Soho was where she had been last evening , wondering what to do and where to go to fill the time ; there , in Shaftesbury Avenue , she had seen Lucinda and the airmen . |
| 8 | ‘ The hardest thing is knowing where to go to get help , to get the advice and information you need ’ |
| 9 | The smart operator knows where to go to get information . |
| 10 | Well my father , when we lived there he worked at the Colliery and he used to walk home and during he s , before before he m before the strike we used to have these pheasants and things , and rabbits which he used to catch , because early morning he seemed to know exactly where to go to get a a pheasant that was roosting in a tree , you see or a bush . |
| 11 | He knew how things worked in London , where to go to obtain what he wanted or needed , had contacts with the underworld , was smart enough and experienced enough not to make mistakes of the kind that draw a visitor to the attention of the authorities . |
| 12 | Where to borrow depends a little on what you need the loan for , but broadly speaking you should go straight to a bank or building society and explain that you want a personal loan . |
| 13 | ‘ I taught Jimmy the sensation of where to expect the serve of an opponent , plus where to plan to return that shot . |
| 14 | Some do it because they want to belong to a group where sniffing happens to be part of the group 's activities . |
| 15 | The fact that the way you looked told you where to sit annoyed her as well as the way she was treated by thinner people . |
| 16 | Where Thins has three Waterstones to compete with and , at university level , the old established Bauermeister , Smiths has two Waterstones and a Dillons , but virtually no competition on the campus of either Glasgow or Strathclyde . |
| 17 | This is a year when a partnership is not only important in itself , but when you should ask whether it can take you where want to go . |
| 18 | He said it was a case where Say needed help rather than punishment . |
| 19 | Mr Lapointe hopes to begin in Bolivia , where poaching threatens the caiman crocodile . |
| 20 | The Museum of Transport was pleased with the result and now knows where to come to drive out other pests and steer clear of further trouble . |
| 21 | This error is found even in the august Oxford English Dictionary , where to caterwaul has been defined as ‘ To make the noise proper to cats at rutting time ’ . |
| 22 | We must start by collating and documenting all cases , all changes , where imposed affecting G M B members . |
| 23 | To assess LFA-1 binding to ICAM-3 further , solid-phase assays where done using soluble recombinant ICAMs containing the two N-terminal immunoglobulin domains ( Fig.4 b ) . |
| 24 | As early as 1483 an Act had been passed , legalizing the enclosure of coppices in the forests where felling had taken place , until seedling beech and oak had grown again . |
| 25 | Binding guarantees will be set locally for in-patient waiting times , starting with the operations where waiting causes most distress . |
| 26 | That way we shall have a good idea of all the different kinds of rose , where to look to find the right variety to suit a particular purpose , and more importantly , where not to look , and what to leave alone . |
| 27 | ‘ Mind where you'se goin' ! ’ yelled the angry driver . |
| 28 | We have described this process earlier ( chapter 6 ) , and it seems to occur in every case where fingerspelling has been available for some time and there has been a strong hearing influence . |
| 29 | Jesus , there 'd be so many things I could do I do n't even know where to start thinking about them . |
| 30 | I would really like to wear some fashionable clothes on the slopes but have n't got a clue where to start looking . |