Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [Wh adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The erm we 're gon na , we 're gon na make a drive bit that goes in across where the lawn is now |
| 2 | I position my head above her backside and let some spit fall down onto where the knuckle is caught on the ring of muscle , then push my finger filly into her . |
| 3 | Grimma wandered over to where the human lay . |
| 4 | At times they veer towards the kind of sulk-metal that dodgy punk bands used to come up with when the guitarist was a closet Jimmy Page buff . |
| 5 | I was just sticking one of the mouse heads back on when the birds went up into the evening air , kaw-calling and screaming , wheeling over the path through the dunes where it went near their nests . |
| 6 | He did not immediately dry his face but knelt over the stream , looking down to where the sun was glinting on the pebbles , turning them momentarily into stars . |
| 7 | As dusk fell they all piled back into the ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ and , with the track rod end still giving forth its loud protesting wail , drove down to where the torpedo boats were moored . |
| 8 | The ceiling had been removed and we were looking up at where the roof of the house once had been . |
| 9 | She told herself that the best thing she could do would be to go out of the house and climb up to where the buzzards and the ravens nested on the clifftop , but she did n't pay herself much attention . |
| 10 | In complete panic , I turned the car around and drove back to where the house had been . |
| 11 | When she was feeling down , Old Mother Walsh was always going on about how the snake was slithering in our direction . |
| 12 | Erm , in fact further down there you 've got the leet on the ground going down to where the waterwheel is . |
| 13 | But the outflow is perennially full , white water pouring down to where the moor cleaves open and lets it fall to sea . |
| 14 | Athelstan took advantage of the delay to walk over to where the bear , squatting in its own filth , was busy plundering a mound of refuse piled high before him . |
| 15 | Repeat the read out from where the failure occurred . |
| 16 | Election ‘ 92 : Going back to where the journey began |
| 17 | He turned to look back at where the doorway to the stairs stood in the gloom . |
| 18 | Melissa watched for a few seconds as he worked , apparently impervious to the heat , then turned back to where the others were waiting . |
| 19 | The horizon had jumped up to where the sky used to be . |
| 20 | Lunch over , I walked on to where the Coast to Coast Path and Pennine Way cross above Ease Gill Force . |
| 21 | Then he pulled himself out from under the rugs , feeling ashamed , and walked over to where the bank was free of weeds . |
| 22 | Athelstan suddenly remembered the bear , stopped and walked back to where the animal sat chained in the corner where curtain wall met Bell Tower . |
| 23 | We were discussing whether the director had actually nailed the actors to the stage or not when we got back to where the car was n't . |
| 24 | Later , as we focused in on where the changes occurred , we were able to subdivide much further and according to more meaningful anatomical criteria . |
| 25 | Do n't go too near the water ! ’ she called out before leaping to her feet and running over to where the twins were feeding some ducks at the edge of the Serpentine . |
| 26 | The groups , comprising business people , lawyers , accountants and DTI officials will take over from where the review of parts of the 1985 Companies Act announced last November left off . |
| 27 | And that amending the foot fault rule to stop players jumping before they hit the ball , introducing possible changes to ball pressures for specific surfaces and taking steps to inhibit any further extensions in the dimension or strength of rackets , would be better than ‘ tinkering about with how the game is actually played . ’ |
| 28 | Hoomey wondered who he would go along with when the day came his parents arranged his getting married , for Sikhs arranged it for their sons , Hoomey knew . |
| 29 | She rested on the boulder and from it looked down to where the river ran shallow and offered a breeding ground to a lively population of insects . |
| 30 | On the fell edge near Brackensgill we looked down to where the river Dee meanders through the valley like a slow-worm . |