Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] where " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all the tanks where my fish are housed a small terracotta saucer is placed on to the bottom where the food is placed , this does help when it comes to cleaning the uneaten food off the aquarium bottom . |
| 2 | He stopped , mouth agape , gazing down across the Sound where Luch up on the roof was pointing . |
| 3 | ‘ And we all converge down in the meadow where the skirmishing will take place . |
| 4 | From the square in front of the hotel , an avenue led down to the Corniche where people strolled arm iii arm along the Nile . |
| 5 | ‘ Hey , Ellen ! ’ the doctor shouted down to the galley where Ellen was trying to disguise the fact that the frozen steaks were being thawed in a microwave . |
| 6 | The little larvae soon emerge — they know which way to go ! — and bore down into the stem where they pupate and eventually emerge as adults . |
| 7 | She hesitated , her eyes showing a momentary unease , then she did as she was told , walking over to the corner where he had indicated . |
| 8 | Susan 's eyes grew wide as Maggie told her about her ride on the telegraph pole , ending up at The Haven where she 'd been rescued by Bryce . |
| 9 | The small village was completely silent as the Marines who had landed at the small fishing jetty moved up into the plateau where the houses were built . |
| 10 | Do you want to come up to the window where you can see ? |
| 11 | ‘ Displacement activity , ’ she said and headed back to the mantelpiece where she swapped a silver-framed photograph for a white porcelain horse . |
| 12 | Back at the 18th green the Princess had not yet been given her cue to come out onto the dais where the presentations were to be made . |
| 13 | While he was getting ready , I wandered back to the turning where I 'd left Armstrong and looked back across the road . |
| 14 | From the oast house we wandered back to the brewhouse where the copper boil was progressing satisfactorily and the previous days ' brews were frothing cheerfully away in their tall , cylindrical fermenters . |
| 15 | Approaching Keld I dropped down into the dale where Great Sleddale Beck falls over a succession of stairs , hard bands of limestone that have resisted the action of the water to form an impressive series of falls all of which are within a mile or so of Keld village . |
| 16 | The boy from Broome Manor drove through to the final where he beat the Swedish player Victor Gustafson three and one . |
| 17 | The boy from Broome Manor drove through to the final where he beat the Swedish player Victor Gustafson three and one . |
| 18 | When an English-speaker went into the foyer of the regiment , a NAAFI-style canteen where you could buy beer , cigarettes , sweets and memorabilia , he would head over to the table where the Mafia was sitting . |
| 19 | She came through into the sitting-room where I was nursing a martini . |
| 20 | He saw the blond man he had wounded , Hugh they called him , walk over to the bush where the sack was . |
| 21 | I woke up at the part where he was telling me it had been a mindless fling , and I should n't get upset over it . |
| 22 | The gate admits to a path , presumably made as a droveway for bringing sheep down from the fell ; this spirals up to the ridge where a turn to the right leads to the summit cairn . |
| 23 | Then , looking up along the gully where the boar had been , Kalchu noticed a young boy leading his dog on a chain . |
| 24 | It was an illusion of tired eyes , but before he got back in the car he stood , his collar open , looking up at the sky where there was nothing to see but black , and let the water splash down on his open face , his wet shirt clinging to the skin of his chest and belly . |
| 25 | I walk up to the spot where a rabbit is entangled , I get down on one knee and lift the top line of the net over the back of my head . |
| 26 | Telecine Transfer is the recording of film onto tape , normally done in the Telecine Department , but also capable of being fed up to the gallery where a small desk-top electronic camera is set up to record the footage . |
| 27 | The ripples spread out from the point where the stone is dropped and can affect a great area of the pond and perhaps even the whole of it . |
| 28 | ‘ So what do we do ? ’ asked Jimmy , looking back at the cabinet where it was wedged tight at the office door . |
| 29 | I 'm turned out of the house where I was born whether I want to go or no , the house and the business are handed over to … to that woman , and I have to share what is left in a joint legacy with Francis ! ’ |
| 30 | As an American commentator put it , ‘ a duchess abdicates when her son comes to his title ; she is turned out of the mansion where she once presided … ’ especially through this single-minded concentration of resources through inheritance on a principal heir that the English aristocracy were able to tighten their grip on the land . |