Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was the afternoon when he drove out to the Crumbles and they slept for three hours , the wind pushing at the side of the car like a crowd . |
| 2 | After travelling back south by barge , the pair have driven down to Tasmania to carry on the circumnavigation where they left off . |
| 3 | Now it was the hour when they brought out the pastis and big water-jug and lit the scented candles on the terrace above the bay and Paul and Jeannine and the rest of them were beginning to arrive and Therese was telling them what there would be to eat . |
| 4 | Tonight it 's my turn ; he 'll expect me to take up the story where he left off , but I 've no intention of doing that . |
| 5 | Feeny laughs , whispers , ‘ Cocorico ’ ; they whisper back and she takes up the thread where she left off back in the bathroom : |
| 6 | ‘ Especially the part where you blew out the candles — very amiable of you , I thought . |
| 7 | Like so many times before , he had gone to the window where he stared out across the night sky , his thoughts a million miles away . |
| 8 | Then came the snow and she had to stay in and watch from the window how it piled up against the water butt , how it lay like a blanket along the sills , how it changed the distance from bluey brown to white as far as you could see . |
| 9 | Spiro 's wife , Gail , was yesterday remembered as ‘ lovely ’ in the village where she grew up . |
| 10 | Do the spinning kick one , you know the bloke where he jumps up and does the spinning kick . |
| 11 | And upon the way they round a leper , struggling in a quagmire , who cried out to them with a loud voice to help him for the love of God ; and when Rodrigo heard this , he alighted from his beast and helped him , and placed him upon the beast before him , and carried him with him in this manner to the inn where he took up his lodging that night . |
| 12 | After this brief affair with TV , Kylie returned to the classroom where she knuckled down to the job of passing her exams . |
| 13 | ‘ But at the moment whenever I go back to Melbourne after being abroad it seems homelier every time . |
| 14 | I sometimes stand there in the darkness for a moment , watching them , putting off the moment when I walk up the five tessellated steps to the front door . |
| 15 | He then marches straight past me into the middle of the room where he strides around in imperious circles . |
| 16 | work when I was fifteen , and I was away then for a while and then after the war when I come back I was working at at Cruisbruk . |
| 17 | One of us had to sit on the floor of the phone box while the other stood up and rested on the shelf where you open out the directories . |
| 18 | The dreamings follow a set path as they alter the topography , leaving their potency , or ‘ Guruwari ’ , at specific points en route , before disappearing back to the non-material world at the point where they came in . |
| 19 | It was memorable for the endless grind in one gully where the snow was waist-deep and we had to swim upwards , and for the point where we emerged on to the easterly ridge with views to Lyngen , and a wind that had bared the slopes and put our teeth on edge . |
| 20 | Brenda is in competition with another speaker ( most of whose words are inaudible ) from then right up to the point where she winds up with her Creole " punchline " turaatid , a mildish curse more or less equivalent to " for god 's sake " . |
| 21 | Be explicit at the point where you leave off summarising and your own words take over ( see below , Chapter 5 , pp. 105 – 7 , for techniques which enable you to do this ) . |
| 22 | Therefore I did n't know what was going on to the point where I carried on working in a prefabricated hut hard by the administration block during a very successful students ' occupation in summer 1976 . |
| 23 | Nonetheless our own business remained profitable and has succeeded in growing its market share to the point where it supplies over one third of the gold jewellery materials used in the UK . |
| 24 | In France too , the Lumière Brothers operated on a much larger scale than their British counterparts and , by 1902 , Pathé-Frères had expanded to the point where it carried out all the functions relating to film production — from the manufacture of film stock to exhibition . |
| 25 | Stop over the point where it goes down ? ’ |
| 26 | You know the steep hill at , at erm between Martlesham and Woodbridge , you know as you left Martlesham you went down that steep hill down to the erm the pub at the bottom of the hill where you came out on the looks to me as if the new road misses that altogether |
| 27 | It was n't till the evening when we sat down and talked about it that I realised it could have been quite dangerous . |
| 28 | In the evening when they came back he would crumble salt on a flat stone for them to lick , and once , in addition to their hay , he gave them the heap of grain that was left at the bottom of the fermentation jar when the beer was finished . |
| 29 | They have done a little bit of redecorating , such as in the hallway where they put up a pretty floral paper with a wide matching border at dado level , and hung an original time recorder clock , made in Leeds and bought from an antique shop in Leigh-on-Sea . |
| 30 | They are sitting by the eye of the stream where it looks up at the sun before it weeps down the mountainside . |