Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [adj] [noun] " 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 | When discussing a passage in Dorothy 's German journal , where she states that she ‘ carried Kubla to a fountain in the neighbouring market-place , where I drank some excellent water ’ , one editor allowed himself to speculate upon the existence of a missing manuscript copy of Kubla Khan . |
| 6 | I live in a town called Chastlecombe , where I create expensive hand-knitted sweaters to sell to tourists . |
| 7 | So you 're talking about thirty or I suppose that Three hours each way I suppose . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Her preference is for small charities where she feels she can do some good , and where she has some natural interest . |
| 12 | Angela McCarthy welcomes you to her period guest house where she provides traditional English food . |
| 13 | Mrs Moore welcomes you to her Regency villa where she provides traditional English food in grand surroundings . |
| 14 | ‘ I had some sort of idea about a telescoped vision , ’ Minton told Nevile Wallis , ‘ like those newsreel films taken with a magnifying lens of state functions and so on , where you get that curious distortion . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | where you put all that earth ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | You can brush where the skin is healthy , but avoid any areas where you have bad varicose veins . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | So the revenue themselves do er a really good information service and if you go into any tax office , you do n't have to go to the counter , there 's often a queue or you get this little card system which , number system you 're , you 're next . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But once he or she takes that first drink in any day there is no prediction of when that drinking bout will stop . |
| 25 | The daily , reassuring visit from the patrolling doctor was no more — as if by merely walking the rounds he or she had some magic formula that made us safe . |
| 26 | On the other hand , he or she disposes this increased income over a wider range of services , many of which ( it is asserted ) are less capable of automation ( increased productivity ) than is the case in production of industrial goods . |
| 27 | In return the chief sales executive may be wary of the manager , because he or she seeks higher overt status and the manager is blocking this . |
| 28 | The manager may be wary of the chief sales executive because he or she is the obvious choice to replace the manager , since he or she enjoys high active status with the rest of the team . |
| 29 | Broadly , the expectation is that the Monarch will not have to take a decision that will then prove to be a violation of the democratic process , because it will be up to whoever agrees to form a government in these circumstances to prove that he or she has adequate parliamentary support . |
| 30 | This is called the imprest , and out of this he or she makes all small payments . |