Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] where " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when he got down to the streets where we live he said , ‘ If people want a cleaner Britain , they can start with their own street and their own neighbourhood ’ . |
| 2 | I wandered down to the kitchens where Wolsey 's chefs were busy creating subtleties , strange confectionery creations : towers and castles of sugar ready to launch their assault on valiant teeth . |
| 3 | The herds of antelope cluster together a little more tightly ; vultures and storks alight in the tops of trees to roost ; baboons clamber up into the branches where they will be safe from prowling leopards . |
| 4 | He was unhappy there but , determined not to slip back into the pits where his grandfather had wielded a pick , worked hard and won scholarships both to Jesus College , Oxford , and the University College of Aberystwyth . |
| 5 | A villager who had played in the open fields as a boy , or watched the sheep in the common pastures , would have lived to see the modern landscape of his parish completed and matured , the roads all made , the hedgerow trees full grown , and new farmhouses built out in the fields where none had ever been before . |
| 6 | That was the kidney knifed out of the bullocks where the kidney lay in , what you have steak and kidney pies , yeah . |
| 7 | He sidled along towards the panels where , with any luck , Angalo was hiding . |
| 8 | Willi frequently turned up for the sessions where Therese was working with Luiza , Freddi and Alfred . |
| 9 | Mirabilis continued to stab the picture , muttering low-voiced curses , looking up at the walls where the pigeon was still standing . |
| 10 | After a fashionably elevenish dinner at my hostal-Pension , in a small green dining-room lit by blinding neon , I strolled out into the streets where the sellers of lottery tickets were still in full cry — ‘ Para hoy ! |
| 11 | Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer . |
| 12 | After Kensaleyre , this beautiful road , a territory of hawks , runs by Loch Snizort Beag , and from the calm grassy uplands , well-to-do houses look down on the waters where the opportunities for boats seem infinite . |
| 13 | They turned off into the woods where th'fence ends . |
| 14 | She loved to walk out into the villages where she would sit round the fire or outside a hut shelling peanuts with a family , so that she learned first hand many of the African customs and quickly mastered the language . |
| 15 | The pondering , the getting at the absent Stavrogin , proves successful ; many acute observations buttress the central ‘ lukewarm ’ truth about him , and analysis spills over into the notebooks where Tikhon 's God's-voice function appears at its clearest . |
| 16 | These are prisoners locked out of the prisons where they should be held . |
| 17 | THERE IS A LIGHT popping out of the holes where the tiles have slipped on the roof of the Big Barn nowadays . |
| 18 | Brown sticks stuck out of the sleeves where there should have been wrists and his head was like a hard dry acorn , sun-burned and bald , no hair . |
| 19 | In a matter of minutes , the attackers had been routed , only a few surviving to run back into the streets where the morning had yet to dispel the darkness . |
| 20 | She looked down through the wards where the festive celebrations had momentarily stopped . |
| 21 | If this happened the lighthouse-keeper would tell the warden , who would muster as many ‘ hands ’ as were available , and go up to the headlands where the lighthouses stood . |
| 22 | Then , standing on tiptoe , she reached up into the eaves where the agricultural tools were stored , and pulled out two wooden rakes , karasos , and two lengths of hemp-fibre rope . |
| 23 | Because he had gone back to the woodlands where the trees were . |
| 24 | Just before getting in the trucks , I had wandered down to the rooms where the crippled legionnaires lived . |
| 25 | Her father had been glad to get out to the woods where he led a gang , made a living and found , in his daughter Kitty , all he wanted for softer pleasures . |
| 26 | Two hours before sunrise on the ninth of March 1620 , twelve forty-foot-long pirogues slipped out of the mangroves where they had been concealed ; each craft was carrying around ten men , each man an axe with a blade of sharpened rock and a small gouge of oystershell in the cloth tied around his waist ; three in each had quivers full of arrows and a pouch of manchineel sap , also at their waists ; one man in each was armed with a gun . |
| 27 | The boy ran on to the flats where Zeinab lived and rushed in at the entrance . |
| 28 | The goods to he sold had been piled up on the stairs where once " the possessions " had been piled ; bottles of jam and honey , heaps of hermetically sealed provisions , bottles of wine , cakes of chocolate pliable with the heat , tins of biscuits and even a few mouldy hams had been stacked against the splintered stumps which were all that now remained of the banisters Fleury had found so elegant the first evening he had entered the Residency . |
| 29 | Do n't lie down on the sands where the hole in the sky is . |
| 30 | Eventually the dinner broke up and Claud , Roger Hollis and I went off for a pub-crawl which after sundry indecorous adventures ended up at the Hypocrites where another blind was going on . |