Example sentences of "[subord] [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 | 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 | Her preference is for small charities where she feels she can do some good , and where she has some natural interest . |
| 11 | Angela McCarthy welcomes you to her period guest house where she provides traditional English food . |
| 12 | Mrs Moore welcomes you to her Regency villa where she provides traditional English food in grand surroundings . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | where you put all that earth ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | You can brush where the skin is healthy , but avoid any areas where you have bad varicose veins . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | What , after all , could be more suitable for the Lionisers than the hotel within whose walls Dickens spent so much time , and where he had completed Nicholas Nickleby , the Albion ‘ where we had that merry night two years ago ’ , he wrote to his friend Forster , an occasion made the merrier by indulgence in the landlord 's ‘ excellent hollands ’ . |
| 21 | On the larger ships where we have two main restaurants , we also have two hot kitchens . |
| 22 | During the last few years our strategy has been clearly focused on those businesses where we have significant competitive advantage . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | Although many bad habits are formed in horses due to anxiety , occasionally bad habits develop in horses where they receive some tangible reward for their actions , like avoiding work or stealing food . |
| 25 | The continents just drift around passively on the backs of the mantle convection cells , like great rafts , with the ‘ leading ’ edges of the rafts being dragged down and thickened where they encounter descending oceanic crust . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |