Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stopped right there , where I had an uninterrupted view , and watched the rim of it flatten out , spreading fire along the ocean 's edge . |
| 2 | I arrived at 10.30 and drove to 31 St Aldate 's where I found an enormous orgy in progress . |
| 3 | She is in good form and hoping to break the 10-hour barrier today , having already done so in the European Ironman in August , where she took an individual bronze and a team gold medal . |
| 4 | I think about stopping every day ; I 've tried hypnosis , acupuncture , pills , potions , chewing-gum — even aversion therapy , where you get an electric shock every time you take a drag . |
| 5 | Ultimately we reach the ridge , where we favour an intricate design of vees and scallops called a ‘ block-cut patterned ridge ’ , held down by a heavy lattice pattern of hazel spars . |
| 6 | We returned to the Duke 's house in the forest , where we had an excellent dinner . |
| 7 | That day we walked from Glaramara to Castle Crags , where we had an excellent view over Derwent Water before crossing the valley to explore Grange Fell . |
| 8 | One afternoon we went for a walk to a nearby village where we met an old man with a stick and a long grey moustache who invited us home for tea . |
| 9 | UK students attend at Henley and other tutorial centres , overseas students are offered local workshops in countries where we have an Associate Institution . |
| 10 | It led to the highest floor where we found an Iraqi soldier firing an automatic rifle through a narrow aperture in a pile of sandbags , reloading and firing his weapon until he became exhausted . |
| 11 | The L3 travel to the brain , where they cause an eosinophilic meningoencephalitis , which may prove fatal . ] |
| 12 | She was consoled , too , to have them in her house where they made an uncommon amount of noise and were certainly not easy guests but their beaming countenances and determination to look on the bright side of everything lightened the atmosphere immensely . |
| 13 | These will have hatched from spawn laid far offshore , in water as deep as two hundred metres and , having spent their larval stage swimming free in the ocean , they spend the next two , sometimes three years inshore where they form an important part of the food for many sea-birds and also for seals and otters . |
| 14 | Some of them were absorbed by the empire , where they constructed an administrative system remarkable for the degree of local autonomy exercised within it , and where they pursued , amid uncomprehending but generally unresisting natives , dreams of winning the trust and loyalty of their charges by their integrity , fairness , firmness , and likableness . |
| 15 | At Itxassou there are numbers of these simple memorial stones set in a fringe along the church wall , where they make an affecting counterweight to the overblown and ugly modern gravestones and monuments all around you . |
| 16 | It gave a clear hint that the threat could come from either the public or the private sectors , and it set out a number of principles for handling personal information which , as the Younger Principles , have become famous ; they survive in recognisable form in the Schedule of the Data Protection Act of 1984 , where they assume an unusual importance . |
| 17 | At the same time , late nineteenth-century American petit-bourgeois music culture still retained ‘ progressive ’ elements , unlike its European equivalent , which by then was mostly intent on hedonistic quiescence ; and the active , energetic components of this anti-elitist , common-man tradition ( in vaudeville for example ) fed through into early Tin Pan Alley song where they formed an uneasy synthesis with the tendency to conservative mass-production stereotypes . |
| 18 | There are perhaps 11,000 of them in the UK today and twice that number worldwide : they were exported to countries such as the USA ( where they have an enthusiastic following ) , Canada and Australia before the First World War and are also in the USSR , the Falkland Islands , Sweden and Germany . |
| 19 | More customers are flooding into Tesco 's 401 stores , where they spend an average £30 a week , but that 's a three per cent drop on last year . |
| 20 | Williamson donated more than £500,000 to Lancaster and about £100,000 to Lytham St Annes , where he spent an increasing amount of time after 1913 . |
| 21 | Immediately after Dudley 's elevation , Gloucester was appointed to the commission of the peace , where he played an active role . |
| 22 | Immediately after Dudley 's elevation , Gloucester was appointed to the commission of the peace , where he played an active role . |
| 23 | Michael Redgrave was fortunate in having an excellent stepfather , and was able to study for four years at Cambridge University where he obtained an honourable B.A. ( Cantab . ) . |
| 24 | Where he projected an agreed consensus among Elizabethans as to what the world picture consisted of , we now discover contention and subversion . |
| 25 | He was educated at Bradford Grammar School , where he gained an open scholarship in mathematics to Brasenose College , Oxford . |
| 26 | Where anything resembling an analytic survey was attempted the outcome is prone to reveal more about the background and interests of the author than the matter in hand , describing the aristocracy and gentry in detail while displaying markedly less understanding of the composition and characteristics of the lower orders . |
| 27 | I got sick of this , so I brought an old alarm clock and hung it around my neck and set it to go off at the moment he walked in one day . |
| 28 | Eventually I realised that a weapon could be more effective than my 11-year-old fists and depleted teeth , so I smashed an empty milk bottle over his head . |
| 29 | ‘ So I buy an old dump that 's got about a hundred and fifty thousand miles on the clock . |
| 30 | However , although she had an absolute majority of the MPs entitled to participate , she failed by four votes to register in addition the required 15 per cent margin ( 56 votes ) over Heseltine , and a second ballot was necessary . |