Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [be] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 The ion enters the membrane forming a complex with the ligand , and passes through to the pure water on the other side where it is oxidised back to Cu 2+ ( in other words , it loses the electron ) by dissolved oxygen from the air .
2 They discarded the broken spar over the side where it was picked up by the Nippon tender .
3 But most of the work is going on actually in the auditorium where they 're stripping out all the wood er and putting in great big holes where they can put the fire exits in .
4 The imagination of danger keeps us immersed in a story ; the adventurous court it in actual life ; the unadventurous relate with gusto how they were carried off to hospital with an undiagnosed and probably fatal illness , as a vivid patch in an otherwise uneventful life .
5 The bridge lasted until just after the war when it was pulled down and this again started the discussion " For the want of a bridge here at Halling " to quote Lambarde .
6 We are introduced to Pemberton at the point where he is screwing up courage to say something about money , and all that happens in the subsequent two paragraphs is that the boy returns and his effort is frustrated .
7 Rather than go through the entire process again in a later session , it would make more sense to take it up at the point where it was left off in the previous session , if desired .
8 Keane , who is being pursued by Liverpool , Manchester United , Arsenal and Blackburn , admitted : ‘ Forest have spoken to me about a long-term contract , but I do n't want to get to the point where I am arguing over details and money .
9 authorities in Moscow plan a showpiece funeral for the family — and even a ‘ theme park ’ on the site where they were dug up to commemorate the atrocity .
10 Well the place where I was lived up we were called er er the we were Upper Islay , over passed the fence , aha .
11 I want to go and see the place where I was brought up , my little house , the garden and the road to town .
12 One evening when they were coming back from the hunt , he pretended to be someone else and , all alone , jumped on Albuin pretending that he was going to steal by violence the horse Albuin was mounted on .
13 I was having a nap by the gas fire one evening when I was woken up by the doorbell .
14 And what I want to do is , as the moment where I 'm going in and teaching in the area that I am I do n't mind the learning support bit , I do n't mind the fact that the chil er the , the , yeah , yeah
15 As he lay dying , he was castrated by another who threw his severed penis across the room where it was snapped up by a servant and hidden .
16 In the early 1970s geological research highlighted the fact that lead ores carried distinctive isotope ratio signatures ' , depending upon the geological period when they were laid down as deposits .
17 One of the victims of an alleged murder attempt has told a court how she was tied up , beaten and forced into a car which was then set alight and pushed over a hill .
18 I met her one day when she was coming out of the hairdresser 's and I 'd been in to make an appointment for Caroline .
19 As cells move upwards from the base , they continue to divide , but , unlike the stem cells , they have lost their immortality and they stop dividing when they approach the surface where they are sloughed off .
20 If you are busy or infirm , the advantage of being able to take a ready-made meal out of the freezer and put it in the microwave where it is cooked in under ten minutes , far outweighs any aesthetic pleasure that purists might derive from lengthy cooking processes .
21 There was also the night when I was buzzing round in the office car , making the routine late calls at the district police stations and ambulance headquarters in Cardiff , just before midnight .
22 she said it was very lonely at night when you were walking down the corridors .
23 I asked him why the hell he wanted me to stay the night when he was going out later , and he just shrugged his shoulders and said he was in a funny mood and did n't know what he was saying . ’
24 Aggie got the mousetraps , and the only thing they caught was her Harold 's big toe one night when he was hurrying down to the lavatory in the backyard .
25 A GREY parrot had detectives baffled last night when it was handed in at a Liverpool police station .
26 It was still dark the following morning when we were woken up by a screaming Corporal who came in , kicking the lockers and pushing us out of bed .
27 Where was she this morning when I was phoning up ?
28 I did n't see it this morning when I was turning out your room . ’
29 K : ‘ We would really like to move back to the area where we were brought up .
30 The curtain went up on the second act to reveal the face from this image lying on the ground where it was walked over and trampled on by the cast .
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