Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the northern tip , where it merges with the Vale of Evesham , some grain was also grown , but the Vale of Berkeley , towards the south , was an area of small dairy holdings where arable farming was restricted in scale . |
| 2 | She leaned forward and tapped his hand where it lay on the coverlet , supporting his weight . |
| 3 | He visited his father 's body where it lay in the abbey church of Fontrevault . |
| 4 | Everyone had seen the dead dog on the path , bloated and grey and bald where it lay in the mud , and the heaps of excrement , all teeming with the same flies that were sharing their food : and the association flooded their throats like vomit . |
| 5 | With a sudden flash of rage , she hurled the Browning far out across the dock , where it splashed into the water and disappeared . |
| 6 | From the explosive and detonator , a wire ran round the belt to the side , where it connected with a lithium battery similar to and no larger than the sort used to power digital watches . |
| 7 | After the Second World War the pottery moved to Tingewick , the Keyes family house , where it continues under the aegis of Phyllis 's great-niece , Sara Johnson . |
| 8 | With a lunge , he grabbed the bag from between her fingers and flung it across the parquet , where it landed with a thump before skidding to rest beneath a radiator , then before she could react to such a flare of violence he was reaching out for her , dragging her into his embrace , his lips ravening hungrily over her own with a fever of desire that sent shock waves of fear and desire quivering through her . |
| 9 | MOTORISTS are advised to avoid Bayswater Road , Wallasey , where it passes over the access slip road to Leasowe Road , while road works are carried out from today . |
| 10 | No drain should pass under a building , but where this is unavoidable it must be specially protected by encasing in concrete and supported against settlement where it passes through a wall or foundation . |
| 11 | Riverside conditions such as that , must have continued to exist for a very long time , for when the Romans arrived and established — about A.D.47 — a settlement astride the River Fleet where it ran into the north bank of the River Thames , the River Fleet was about two hundred yards wide at that junction . |
| 12 | These obligations should be owed only if the firm owes the putative customer fiduciary duties , for example where it sells to a brokerage client back-to-back with its own trade in the market , or advises him ; perhaps also if the firm is a market maker or holds itself out as a dealer ( since that is providing a service ) . |
| 13 | I tried to dust the grit off my forearm where it adhered to the sweat . |
| 14 | Hay is the most obvious taste association , striking you first on the bouquet , where it mingles with the scent of crumbled biscuits , and when it comes to flavour , it is met by a faint dusting of icing sugar . |
| 15 | Now the diode is reverse biased and the capacitor can charge until the feedback makes the output switch back to its original saturation level where it remains in the absence of a further trigger pulse . |
| 16 | He dropped the letter on to his desk where it fluttered for a moment , an innocent reminder of the arrangement made in that grey stone house in Ghent . |
| 17 | I hope today we can get rid of this issue we can put it where it belongs in the House Of Commons , we can get rid of it and make sure that Leicestershire helps that and I am still willing to talk to the hunt . |
| 18 | Mick began , then paused where it asked for the name of the vehicle 's owner . |
| 19 | Or , again , space figure differently in the socially responsible naturalism of a public service system , where it figures as a representation of a real environment , than it does in the ‘ market ’ realism of entertainment television where it functions as a scene for action . |
| 20 | I followed the telephone cord and found where it went into the wall . |
| 21 | As for Eliot himself , he seemed to make himself absolutely at home , as he usually did in a small gathering , and he swung his leg over the arm of the comfortable chair , where it reposed throughout the visit . |
| 22 | Working with the head of naval aviation , Admiral Shigemi Inoue , Yamamoto submitted a detailed memorandum to the Minister — where it rested for the moment . |
| 23 | It is often divided into two lobes by an inflexion of its wall where it articulates with the pleuron . |
| 24 | Ken put it on top of the locker , where it staggered around the perimeter mewing and testing space with its paw . |
| 25 | Under s37 a local authority may be directed to investigate a child 's circumstances in any family proceedings where it appears to the court that a care or supervision order may be appropriate . |
| 26 | Under Section 36 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 , where it appears to the Attorney General that the sentencing of a person in the Crown Court has been unduly lenient he may refer the case to the Court of Appeal , with leave , for the sentence to be reviewed . |
| 27 | Such an Order may be used where it appears to the authority to be expedient in the interests of proper planning of their area , including the interests of amenity , regard being had to the development plan and to any other material considerations . |
| 28 | And it has to make up its mind where it stands in the matter of the European Community . |
| 29 | The designer is thus presented with information on the type of " failure " , its value , and where it occurred during the mechanism event . |
| 30 | From Iran turquoise was carried as far afield as west Caucasia , where it occurred in the Maikop barrow in the Kuban , and north Mesopotamia , where it was present in the same tomb at Tepe Gawra as lapis lazuli . |