Example sentences of "where it [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a stool nearby , and , climbing on this , Seddon got on to the firm edge of the sink where it met the draining board and reached up to the hatch . |
| 2 | What you write may well be funny , but if it had grown to the extent where it overweighs the actual book you are writing , a piece of comic crime fiction , then you will be spoiling the whole . |
| 3 | In the case which we have just been discussing , that of the common , oppressed people , it is a question of the superego being degraded by alcoholic intoxication to the point where it and the ego can merge ( or , at least where it no longer chastizes the ego ) ; but in the case of the Inca himself we saw that it was a case of a pre-eminent individual whose ego was exalted to the point where it became the ideal ego of the entire civilization . |
| 4 | The thin man was sent back along the ride to the point where it left the northern highway with orders to watch there , while Crane returned to patrol the width of forest between the camp and the Swamp . |
| 5 | The screen is non-operator driven which means that the Offline System will position the cursor where it requires the Offline Operator to enter information . |
| 6 | It has to extend its search one stage beyond the point where it finds the best path , in order to check that it is the best . |
| 7 | So first I disconnect the cable where it joins the front wheel . |
| 8 | During ejaculation , the sperm is deposited into the vagina , after which it has to negotiate the cervix and the uterus , from where it enters the Fallopian tube . |
| 9 | The maximum depth of the trench will be at the point where it enters the main sewer ; otherwise the trenches will need to be deep enough to allow for a fall of the required gradient away from the house . |
| 10 | A crash behind her made her turn and she saw the enraged old man had hurled his soup dish at the far wall where it hit the pretty paper and ran in thin trickles down onto the pale-grey carpet . |
| 11 | Chantal flashed D'Arcy a reproving glance , but Roquelaure continued as though he had not heard : ‘ We must think where it leaves the French Government , Rober' . |
| 12 | Co-acting with the syllable con- in the passage above is the suggestive use of joie ( joir ) ( cf. the passage from Le Pescheor de Pont seur Saine , above , where it has the clear sense of sexual ecstasy ) , the equally suggestive emphasis on the " entering " of the castle by the knight , and the ambiguity of the past tense of avoir , ot , meaning either " there were " or " she had " . |