Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stockley Park near Heathrow is the site of a huge new golf course , where I work from a small mobile office . |
| 2 | Faye had been taken to Labour and Delivery , where she waited in a private room for Dr Greene 's arrival . |
| 3 | Publication paved the way for an exciting tour of lectures , in the UK , New Zealand and her native Australia , culminating in the award at Sydney University — where she graduated with a double first in mathematics and physics in 1939 . |
| 4 | On impulse , she bought a recently published history of the region under the Occupation and took it to a pavement café , where she sat under a gaudy sunshade , idly sipping coffee and glancing through her book , but finding the passing show around her far more diverting . |
| 5 | She had for a while become a Monotype operator , on one of the " women 's machines " , and also remembers " trying to do imposition " and doing a little display work in one mainly jobbing firm where she worked for a short time . |
| 6 | Luciana Mottola Colban discussed the plans with Danièle Giraudy , one of the minds behind the Pompidou Centre , where she worked in an educational role for eight years , before becoming director of the Musée Picasso at Antibes , and then moving on to the Musée des Arts Decoratifs as Director in 1991 . |
| 7 | Should you decide not to accept the above major changes you may cancel your booking and we refund all monies paid and , where you advised of a major change within eight weeks of departure , issue you with compensation of £10 per person . |
| 8 | Picture an island near Zanzibar ringed by a virginal coral reef where you stay in a thatched hut amongst palm trees on a pristine beach . |
| 9 | We were jolted from the Delta to the coast , where we disappeared into a giant galvanised iron shed . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , he has not honoured the spirit of the words that he used in Committee , where we engaged in a long debate about the value of the assets and the effect on the workers . |
| 11 | We were glad to reach Rangoon which at that time of the year , early March , was very hot , and so Pop sent us up to Taungin-in the Shan States where we stayed with a delightful elderly American missionary , Miss Hughes . |
| 12 | The flaps stood up on either side of her ankle , and were laced together where they met in a stiff ridge over her foot . |
| 13 | Metasedimentary rocks are common in south Harris where they occur on a large scale in well-defined belts extending for considerable distances ; up to 15 km in places . |
| 14 | The connections are sealed joints and only the Electricity Board may make these joints and provide the two service wires to each house , where they terminate in a sealed , fused container . |
| 15 | Doug reaches intermittently into his crisp packet and feeds them into his mouth where they blend into a rubbery combination of mixed mash . |
| 16 | He was on permanent peg 2 in Hollinhey Bay where he tipped with an open-ended swimfeeder and gozzer maggot in six feet for a netful of skimmer bream . |
| 17 | David Tory , the president of the Open Software Foundation , has added another directorship to his CV , joining the board of directors at Service Systems International Ltd where he sits alongside an old colleague , chairman of the board Sam Goodner . |
| 18 | He thought of her on the night train to Newcastle ( where he knew of a kindly , broadminded landlady who would see her through her trouble– , and shuddered sympathetically . |
| 19 | Afterwards , the actor was swept from the courtroom and along the corridors , closely pursued by screaming fans and on to the court steps , where he said in a prepared statement : ‘ This has not been a case about homosexuality and I resent any suggestion that it was . |
| 20 | He threw out a hand , clutching at empty air , then fell backwards , tumbling head over heels down the steps , finally crashing to a stop at the bottom , where he lay in a spreading pool of blood . |
| 21 | Fred would listen patiently until he could stand no more and then depart to the small back yard , where he sat on an upturned tea-chest and vowed that one day he would forget how efficient his kitchen hand was and just do away with her . |
| 22 | Between 1647 and 1649 he was based in The Netherlands , where he acted as a major source of intelligence on economic and scientific affairs . |
| 23 | He was educated at Ealing County Grammar School , where he was awarded a state scholarship and a minor open scholarship to Christ 's College , Cambridge , where he graduated as a senior optime in the mathematical tripos ( part ii ) in 1935 . |
| 24 | It had been run nose-first into the boat house where it lay like a huge , sleek beast in an undersized pen , the deep V of the forward end tucked under the gallery on which the three of them were standing . |
| 25 | Major Malcolm Wallace , the British Olympic equestrian team manager , said last night : ‘ I 'm sure she will do everything in her power to keep equestrianism where it belongs as a strong and integral part of the Olympic movement . ’ |
| 26 | Looking to the future , this conflict should cease to arise ; race-awareness training is now integrated into basic training , where it sits as a natural part of discussions on impartiality and prejudice during the interviewing process and should have the benefits that CAB anti-racist policy intends . |
| 27 | Her eyes had become focused on the firm line of his lips , and a scalding message raced into her belly where it clenched in a strange , anticipatory tingle . |
| 28 | The provisions of the 1990 National Health Service and Community Care Act make the following statutory requirements of case managers : ‘ Where it appears to a local authority that any person for whom they may provide or arrange for the provision of community care services may be in need of any such services , the authority ( a ) shall carry out an assessment of his needs for those services and ( b ) having regard to the results of that assessment , shall then decide whether his needs call for the provision by them of any such services . ’ |
| 29 | Pr85 env , the initial translation product of the env gene forms oligomers , undergoes glycosylation and is proteolytically cleaved during its transport through the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus to the cell surface where it appears as a small transmembrane C-terminal domain p15(E) TM , linked noncovalently or by a disulphide bridge to a larger extracellular domain gp70 SU ( ref 25 ) . |
| 30 | Liathach , like its neighbour , is best seen from a distance , a popular viewpoint being the private road to Coulin Lodge , where it towers as a great wedge across the waters of Loch Clair , after a short stroll from the pass road . |