Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I waded out , concentrating on casting towards the weeds , where I had seen a good fish rise , when a glint of white under the water caught my eye . |
| 2 | I left the crew to fend for themselves ; they were a married couple , after all , and I remembered a small trattoria in a back street where I had enjoyed a candlelit meal . |
| 3 | They dragged me to the Police Station where I had to make a detailed statement of everything that had happened the first time intercourse took place . |
| 4 | Either that , or I 've got a secret penchant for women who attack me with briefcases and then do their best to alienate half my work-force . ’ |
| 5 | One compositor , Jean Henderson whose daughter kindly provided me with information , went into the trade ( in the 1890s , that is some time after the earliest entrants ) straight from the Dean Orphanage , where she had received a good education ( see Plate 1 ) . |
| 6 | Drew had gone with her to the hospital , where she had undergone a full medical check . |
| 7 | Only when she was halfway there did she remember that this , after all , was n't Chipchester , where she had spent the last six months at college — nor even Athens , where at least the drivers and pedestrians expected to engage in constant warfare — and that perhaps she should have checked the traffic before crossing … |
| 8 | These or other events in her life at this time , even the sad ones like the passing of the first anniversary of her husband 's death , may be the key that will open the door for her to freedom from the prison of grief where she has finished the hard labour of bereavement . |
| 9 | Cross it over , round the back , and back up to the front again , do a reef knot here and tuck your ends in straight away of course like so and then this little bit can just be tucked up where you 've crossed the two ends and make it look neater with no ends hanging out , no that , all that does is keep the dressing secure , keep infection out , okay ? |
| 10 | ‘ You are supposed never to use karate and if you do it 's only in circumstances where you 've exhausted every other option . |
| 11 | I like the way you 've got it to sound like a court report , especially where you 've used the reported speech for the Judge and Jury . |
| 12 | This can be covered by the skirting board at the walls , or by a variety of mouldings such as stair-nose ( for edging the top stair ) , T-profile ( for where two wood floors join at the same level ) , and quadrant ( where you 've left the original skirting in place , or at a wall where there is no skirting ) . |
| 13 | To work with a company where you have to teach the basic idea of the movement is an interesting challenge . ’ |
| 14 | And the question to me is that , where you have got a parliamentary system and where essentially you 're dealing with the backbenchers of the … government in power , can you deliver them ? |
| 15 | Then patch the surface with the special filler provided ( one-part types are easier to use than the two-part systems , where you have to mix a special catalyst with the filler paste ) . |
| 16 | You dive down a side street where you have spied a festoon of pretty cotton squares , and there , under gaudy painted colonnades , lilac and orange , cinnamon and lemon and rose , in patterns more typical of Marseille or the Levant than of Cavaillon , the retail market stalls are already doing business . |
| 17 | Where you want to bend a short length of pipe , it may be better to use a length of hand-bendable flexible pipe . |
| 18 | Or you 've done a tiny bit and you need something that 's not |
| 19 | Yeah , if it , if it 's an illness , not a simple accident , an accident is probably , or you 've got a rough idea as to how long you gon na be off for . |
| 20 | Erm so you 've either got you know the , the , the sort of or the old people , or you 've got the young people , and that reaches back down the age range into things like child abuse which is now , you know , very er much er on the agenda . |
| 21 | Where you 've got smokers or you 've got an open fire |
| 22 | If you wish to continue or you wish to recreate a nineteenth century corporatist local authority that 's fine . |
| 23 | Or on this one or you have to have the other one ? |
| 24 | The usual pattern is that you take several fish one after the other , and then nothing for perhaps an hour , then several more fish in quick succession , and so on , until either you run out of bait or you have caught the whole shoal . |
| 25 | Either she was losing her mind , or she 'd followed the wrong man . |
| 26 | However , if he or she decides to evolve a new style of weight control , and aims for a slow and steady loss , the weight is more likely to stay off . |
| 27 | Can the theist respond that he or she does have a coherent understanding of God ? |
| 28 | By virtue of being hand-made , all oriental rugs can be said to be unique — a weaver , no matter how hard he or she tries to follow a particular design , will invariably make small mistakes or innovations which will impart some individual flavour to the work — but it is rare to encounter a rug in which the weaver has consciously striven to express his own creative ideas at the expense of a traditional design . |
| 29 | Either way he or she returns to disturb the heterosexual norm , especially in its masculine form , and does so according to a psychic and/or social dynamic which is intrinsically perverse : deviance emerges from the terms of its exclusion , eventually undermining that of which it was initially an effect , and which depended upon its exclusion . |
| 30 | A preliminary clipping usually takes place during the course of the knotting , when the weaver cuts the pile yarn to an approximate length after he or she has completed a few rows , but the final clipping is a highly skilled job , which , if badly done , can ruin months of work . |