Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | From the square in front of the hotel , an avenue led down to the Corniche where people strolled arm iii arm along the Nile . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Displacement activity , ’ she said and headed back to the mantelpiece where she swapped a silver-framed photograph for a white porcelain horse . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | While he was getting ready , I wandered back to the turning where I 'd left Armstrong and looked back across the road . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He sidled along towards the panels where , with any luck , Angalo was hiding . |
| 13 | The timeliness of the Minor award in these terms was noted by the head of history : The project came along at the time when we were thinking about cross-curricular developments anyway , and the school had been concerned about the particular pattern of study skills and how they could be extended and coordinated . |
| 14 | The boy from Broome Manor drove through to the final where he beat the Swedish player Victor Gustafson three and one . |
| 15 | The boy from Broome Manor drove through to the final where he beat the Swedish player Victor Gustafson three and one . |
| 16 | She came through into the sitting-room where I was nursing a martini . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | After a promising start , the campaign fizzled out in the summer when the full Co-operative Congress refused to back it . |
| 19 | After a fashionably elevenish dinner at my hostal-Pension , in a small green dining-room lit by blinding neon , I strolled out into the streets where the sellers of lottery tickets were still in full cry — ‘ Para hoy ! |
| 20 | He drove out past the graveyard where he 'd stood alone in the wind and hurt . |
| 21 | Having been re-assembled for the hand-over , the Vampire will now be carefully broken down again and transported back to the Museum where it will be placed on display once more after re-assembly . |
| 22 | When Rosa had completed her gentle grooming , they resumed their circling of the square , hand in hand ; and Tommaso came out of the cafe where he had bought Caterina and Franco ice cream , and lit a cigarette and puffed smoke into the evening sunlight . |
| 23 | It was not until they came out into the clearing where the lame horse was dismally hobbling amongst the forest grasses that he became aware of what had happened . |
| 24 | Lord Deverill , having watched in silence , seeing his daughter was safe , popped his big horse over the gate and galloped on to the covert where hounds had checked , and so too finally had Buttons . |
| 25 | Gobbets of soil shook down into the cavity where she hid her face . |
| 26 | She closed her eyes , sighed , frowned down at the table where the ash lay like his spoor . |
| 27 | Sam and Duncan McCrea raced down to the street where Lou Collins had left a CIA car should the listeners in the apartment need transport . |
| 28 | The barmaid took the money wordlessly and Dexter swaggered over to the corner where Blanche was sitting . |
| 29 | They turned off into the woods where th'fence ends . |
| 30 | Two of the protesters climbed up into the roof where , from the girders high overhead , they scattered anti-Fascist leaflets upon the audience . |