Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We cascaded down the stairs as the dog decided he could take going downstairs in his stride — and seethed across the station into the sunshine of the great outdoors ; where I observed two large policemen surrounding my estate car , notebooks in hand — and under the obvious impression that they were abut to make an easy collar . |
| 2 | ‘ Not in Europe , Jane , where I spent ten long years looking for an ideal . |
| 3 | The view from this room where I write these last pages is small , but it will serve as an epitome of the gentle unravished English landscape . |
| 4 | Prague was the last stadium where I wore conventional running shorts . |
| 5 | I live in a town called Chastlecombe , where I create expensive hand-knitted sweaters to sell to tourists . |
| 6 | So you 're talking about thirty or I suppose that Three hours each way I suppose . |
| 7 | Mrs Dyer was lodged in Reading Gaol , where she made two abortive attempts at suicide , the first with a pair of scissors with which she tried to stab herself ; thwarted , she then tried to strangle herself with her boot laces , with no greater success . |
| 8 | As soon as he had driven Liz Spalding to her small apartment , where she made some basic changes to her appearance , and grabbed a bite to eat , Bodie took her to Linda 's school . |
| 9 | Pausing only to once more fill up with petrol , she drove through the German border and six miles on stopped at Cheb , on the Czechoslovakian border , where she changed some English pounds for Czech crowns , and drove on wondering if this ‘ on edge ’ feeling was going to stay with her until lunchtime tomorrow . |
| 10 | Now we 're fortunate with with this that if I turn it on it 's very quiet but if any of you had and I 'm sure Jeff you 've probably seen it where you get some older machines and the fan in there rattles like mad and there 's nothing worse than having that thing rattling all all the day . |
| 11 | Pick up any book ( not a children 's book or one which is highly technical or full of pictures ) and open it where you have two complete pages of text . |
| 12 | The blues is a distinct feel , and the modern technique is another distinct feel , where you have these fluid runs and patterns and a more scalic and arpeggiated type of thinking ; the blues is basically certain boxes and chromatics . |
| 13 | You can brush where the skin is healthy , but avoid any areas where you have bad varicose veins . |
| 14 | Where you find those two provisions you construe the document , not as a release , but merely as an undertaking not to sue a particular individual , and the result is that the right to proceed against the co-debtor is reserved and can be put in force against him . |
| 15 | very clear , you 've got two officers with shotguns , do you mean that it 's just he gave his shotgun to him and vice versa or you nominated two different shotguns ? |
| 16 | Management by exception enables a manager to devote his or her energies to significant deviations ; this does not mean that he or she ignores all other results but it helps to focus managerial effort . |
| 17 | This is called the imprest , and out of this he or she makes all small payments . |
| 18 | They are people who would like to work but believe no work is available , lack the schooling , training , skills , or experience required by employers , are thought by employers to be too young or too old or who have other personal handicaps in finding a job . |
| 19 | On the larger ships where we have two main restaurants , we also have two hot kitchens . |
| 20 | The experience has already been invaluable , as proved in the recent World Cup when the backbone of our team had been to the 1990 CANZ series where we lost all four matches ’ . |
| 21 | Their homeward journey took them via Lille ( where Wolfgang fell ill ) , Ghent , Antwerp and The Hague ( where they gave two public concerts and played , by special request , to the Princess of Weilburg , to whom Wolfgang dedicated a set of six keyboard and violin sonatas ) . |
| 22 | The offensive on the Somme was in jeopardy , and the Italians were suffering in Austrian attacks in the Trentino , where they lost some 300 guns and 150,000 men . |
| 23 | Scott Cunningham has developed the practice of magical aromatherapy , where he uses these natural aromas for effects such as stimulation of the mind , protection , purification and psychic awareness , thereby attaining what might be called magical states of consciousness . |
| 24 | He recorded a visit of several days to Thorndon , Lord Petre 's estate , where he collected many rare specimens and must have been delighted by the tapestry of exotic climbers woven through trellises at the back of the stoves ( see p. 55 ) . |
| 25 | The earliest examples are pictures of 1907 or 1908 , such as the wonderful ‘ Bathers with a turtle ’ , where he lays three isolated figures and this absurd tortoise in the picture and persuades them to cohere simply by the pressure exerted on them by the colour of the ground . |
| 26 | But Halling which he loved and where he spent fifteen happy years has no recognition of this great man . |
| 27 | No manager or salary were recorded but he managed on his mother 's contributions and joined Miss Sarah Thorne at the Theatre Royal , Margate , where he played thirty leading parts in eight months . |
| 28 | He played well to finish joint third in the Dubai Open , where he played all four rounds under par , but missed the cut in the Johnnie Walker Classic in Singapore . |
| 29 | His drive and energy helped Leeds to four FA cup finals and two league titles , before he moved to nearby Hull City where he played another 61 games . |
| 30 | He was first put in charge of the tunnels and other works between Bristol and Bath , as well as being responsible for the manufacture of coke at the company 's Bristol works , where he initiated several important improvements . |