Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | hark an hear da tractor a dizzen times afore he cam |
2 | She made for the stand where her umbrella was kept . |
3 | He 'll steer clear of the lengthy and costly three-month programmes , preferring the therapy of a short three-day course where his people can receive some stimulus on how to improve their business performance . |
4 | Every Elf city was required to have a martial field where its soldiers could train and fight mock battles . |
5 | Attempts to improve occupational mobility for them may concentrate on a few professional openings where their colour is defined as an occupational advantage ( e.g. race relations advisers ) or on employers ( e.g. local authorities ) with positive action policies , or self-employment ( small businesses ) . |
6 | He had gone into his father 's firm of solicitors where his looks endeared him to wives in divorce cases , although his extreme reluctance to take decisions prevented them obtaining the best results . |
7 | A hand holding a scrap of hanky pressed on her veil where her mouth was . |
8 | Their brakes must have locked as they were coming down the slope , for there was a twenty-yard slice of chocolate loam where their wheels had scoured the turf . |
9 | There was nothing in the least bit objectionable about him , but he looked as though he had a computer where his heart was , and rushed home at night to plug in to a socket and recharge the batteries . |
10 | Chopper Harris , on the other hand , was a dullard who had a big heart where his friends were concerned , and it was he who often stood cups of tea or a pint for his friends . |
11 | He had been born and spent the first 10 years of his life in pre-war Germany where his father , a German-Jewish lawyer , was head of the legal department of electrical giant AEG ( now part of Telefunken ) . |
12 | And somehow she could n't stop her gaze from straying to the triangle of naked chest where his shirt buttons were open . |
13 | Place your fingers an inch or two below your breastbone ( that is the bone which begins in front of your chest where your neck finishes ) . |
14 | Marlowe chooses to escape from his own Elizabethan society to a land of innocent pursuits where his shepherd asks a young lady , ‘ Come live with me and be my love ’ . |
15 | I thoroughly recommend this course of action as a way of improving your driving and putting your badge where your mouth is . |
16 | This proposition , admittedly , is not without its difficulties when the sovereign is the same person in two or more realms where her ministers may tender divergent or opposing advice on the same subject ; but so far the possibilities involved in these different capacities of the sovereign have not caused embarrassment in practice . |
17 | He recently published a book on the labour camp where his weight fell from 13 stone to just five . |
18 | He recently published a book on the labour camp where his weight fell from 13 stone to just five . |
19 | Log accounts of meetings where your competence or character was attacked . |
20 | Perhaps the guy has a heat sensor where his tonsure should be . |
21 | Now they were going to be given a chance to put their money where their mouths were . |
22 | For , she thinks , if privileged spoiled people like her ca n't get off their backsides and put their money where their mouth is … |
23 | When will the Government put their money where their mouth is ? |
24 | Last month 's edition challenged critics of John Motson to put their money where their mouth is and try to do better . |
25 | The public was putting its money where its heart was , and at the off Desert Orchid was 11–10 on favourite ( though he had opened in the betting at slightly shorter odds ) . |
26 | Based on it management then devises a variety of systems to ensure that , from the employee 's standpoint , the top brass ‘ puts its money where its mouth is . ’ |
27 | The company is certainly putting its money where its mouth is . |
28 | Putting its money where its mouth is , Sun Microsystems Inc is downsizing its internal computer operations to the client-server model using Sparcstations and Sparcservers and is yanking out its mainframe . |
29 | Executive management must be willing to ‘ put its money where its mouth is ’ and use all kinds of resources — technical , consultative , and expert — in support of the change effort . |
30 | If the Labour party had put its money where its mouth was and voted with us , the problem facing us today would not have arisen . |