Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ And we all converge down in the meadow where the skirmishing will take place . |
| 5 | From the square in front of the hotel , an avenue led down to the Corniche where people strolled arm iii arm along the Nile . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She hesitated , her eyes showing a momentary unease , then she did as she was told , walking over to the corner where he had indicated . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Do you want to come up to the window where you can see ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Displacement activity , ’ she said and headed back to the mantelpiece where she swapped a silver-framed photograph for a white porcelain horse . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | That was the kidney knifed out of the bullocks where the kidney lay in , what you have steak and kidney pies , yeah . |
| 19 | While he was getting ready , I wandered back to the turning where I 'd left Armstrong and looked back across the road . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He sidled along towards the panels where , with any luck , Angalo was hiding . |
| 23 | The boy from Broome Manor drove through to the final where he beat the Swedish player Victor Gustafson three and one . |
| 24 | The boy from Broome Manor drove through to the final where he beat the Swedish player Victor Gustafson three and one . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She came through into the sitting-room where I was nursing a martini . |
| 27 | He saw the blond man he had wounded , Hugh they called him , walk over to the bush where the sack was . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Willi frequently turned up for the sessions where Therese was working with Luiza , Freddi and Alfred . |
| 30 | 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 . |