Example sentences of "where [pers pn] have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They awarded me a seat behind a pillar for this French farce , but foolishly I moved to a place where I had a full view of the stage . |
| 2 | Very quickly in , what , what can I say , I mean it 's an appalling situation where you have a political party that believes that it can solve all the ills of these the country that it has created in the last twelve years , I hope on the explicit though I tend to think renunciations are fairly clear here , but erm I hope you 'll listen . |
| 3 | A common example of problems with auto-exposure is where you have a dark foreground subject , say a building , which has bright sky in the background . |
| 4 | You go up some steps to a reception area , from where you have a clear view down into the clean kitchen , then down some steps into a dining room that looks like a well-lit Tube tunnel . |
| 5 | erm , and to use a word that would be used in other areas , retraining goes on , amongst the judiciary or do they just get to this pinnacle , and then hold it against all comers , until they choose to retire , I mean , in any other , er , job where you have a peculiar expertise , like that , you would be expected to update yourself , to keep up with the trends , you would be sent away to conferences , and retraining courses . |
| 6 | Moraine boulders were piled in rounded heaps and we walked inland through tufted heaps of tussac grass , climbing well up the scree-covered slopes to picnic in a spot where we had a magnificent view of the Strait and the channels and islands further west . |
| 7 | It 's particularly easy in California where we have a great time advantage . |
| 8 | He knows where we need help as well as where we have a special ability to help others . |
| 9 | It is that , according to the Department of Employment figures , if the Labour party 's economic proposals for a minimum wage were put into effect it would cost some 2 million jobs , of which 50,000 would be in Northern Ireland , where we have a large number of women workers in the clothing , textile and garment industries . |
| 10 | ( d ) a number of respondents supported the idea of prohibiting solicitors from acting where they had a personal interest in a transaction , but not where the interest was that of a family member or employee . |
| 11 | . The works and the people had sort of amalgamated and so they used the one place where they had a fitting shop . |
| 12 | You 've seen the advert for KitKat have n't you where they have a little break sitting in the back of the van and the settee 's on the floor and the carpet 's on the floor and there 's a a lamp in there and there 's a piece of furni to one side . |
| 13 | The Sigma ( above ) has a 0.5ins higher roofline , and door pillars and window frames to European taste , unlike its sister Diamante model , which is already on sale in Japan where it has a six-month waiting list . |
| 14 | From Tripoli the advance into Tunisia involved him in some of the bitterest fighting of the war : in the Matmata Hills on the outflanking of the Mareth Line ; at Wadi Akarit , where he had a narrow escape when he received ( as he modestly put it , doubtless so as not to worry me unduly ) ‘ a wallop from a piece of spent shell ’ , but was not badly injured ; and at the drive north to Enfidaville . |
| 15 | Allen stole forward to a point where he had a good view of the Waste . |
| 16 | Doyle crouched behind a hedge , a hundred yards from the house , in a position where he had a good view of the road in both directions . |
| 17 | For several years he has been a helper , and having decided to return to Birmingham where he had a distinguished career as a teacher of English , he resolved to give us the greater part of the library , collected over many years by himself and his late wife . |