Example sentences of "[adv prt] [subord] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where vendors can not agree on where the problem lies , they will at least inform the customer in writing of the reason . |
| 2 | Premier John Major is prepared to lead an unprecedented series of bruising encounters at Number 10 to allow warring departments to agree on where the Treasury axe will fall . |
| 3 | Curiously these metabolic processes seem to anticipate the homeothermic organisation of mammals , thus hinting that dinosaurs carried on where the reptiles left off . |
| 4 | We retreated to the crest of the island , and sat down where the turf was clean and dry . |
| 5 | ‘ Rode through forty nights of the gospels ' rain Black sky pourin' snakes frogs And love in vain You were down where the river grows wider Baby let me be your soul rider . ’ |
| 6 | Then somebody calls out and they find Andy , round the bend in the river , down where the water reappears from a crust of ice and snow and swirls , lowered and reduced , round the rocks and wedged tree-trunks before the lip of the falls , which sound muted and distant today , even this close . |
| 7 | Go through a normal working day and write down where the pressures are most difficult . |
| 8 | I 'm sure you 'll find one down where the dross and scum gather . ’ |
| 9 | Tug sat down where the Woman pointed , but Doyle began to walk round the room , peering at the table from all angles . |
| 10 | It 's basically a 6-string guitar with two sets of crossed strings underneath and another set of plucked strings down where the volume and tone controls would be . |
| 11 | All shell suits are cotton lined , except from the knee down where the nylon replaces the cotton for ease when slipping over shoes . |
| 12 | Down where the chef worked , a temperature gauge on the wall stood at 102° Fahrenheit , but tall willowy Angus , whose high hat nearly brushed the ceiling , looked cool and unperturbed . |
| 13 | down where the steps expired , tired of counting , |
| 14 | I find it sad that the business of getting practitioners , medical or alternative , to provide evidence of the efficacy of the treatments they use is left largely to consumer organisations , and to a financially hard pressed charity like HealthWatch , which has to step in where the professionals seem afraid to tread . |
| 15 | Having said this , it is worth while letting you into a secret — few examiners , in fact , work out any of the topic frequencies and decide either to fill in where the lines in the table are thin or to repeat a question on the " dead certs " . |
| 16 | ‘ I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not unreal , ’ wrote Shaw . |
| 17 | ‘ I try not to be as foolish u the doctor , and not to blunder in where the Inspector wishes to go quietly . |
| 18 | A fresh horse may pull from exuberance and will settle down once the fizz has gone . |
| 19 | It is appropriate in this case that there should be an interim residence order , and there should be directions attached to that order that A. be returned forthwith to the care of his father and that G. , R. and M. remain in the care of their father and that there be an inter partes hearing with service of the application as quickly as the Portsmouth County Court can make it possible to be heard , which means within a matter of days not a matter of weeks , because it would be quite wrong for this matter to die down once the child is returned . |
| 20 | So erm you see that 's , that 's why when we had this we paid somebody to put this in cos the gas company would n't put my my boiler right out the back . |
| 21 | Would have they put when they put the boiler in cos the boiler w we 've had in three years . |
| 22 | That 's why he 's had them put in cos the flat 's more than house in in the only thing is I would say to you to let a heat from the kitchen and the |
| 23 | See so it 's just by learning the pattern it 's like say if you were you were playing football every time somebody every time the ball came towards you you had to learn all about the way the ball goes Oh it 's you know it 's slowing down cos the grass is wet and it 's curling and things like that . |
| 24 | Cos usu when they go away , cos they 're not going away this weekend , but when they go away you should come down cos the flat 's quiet and I ai n't got nothing to do , sit and play my computer . |
| 25 | It would explain the extraordinary letter about the cheque — an act of ludicrous personal generosity to help Ingard out of a hole , or , perhaps , more sanely , to try to preserve the shipping company from going down if the rest of the empire crashed . |
| 26 | Interests arising , whether under assignments or trusts , were struck down if the entitlement arose after presentation of a winding up petition . |
| 27 | Although these missions may be scaled down if the alliance 's Patriot missiles continue to destroy almost every incoming Scud , a fear remains that Iraq might be able to replace the conventional warheads with chemical ones . |
| 28 | If the crampons are horizontal , even if the ice breaks then the points should bite again lower down if the angle is maintained as the boot drops . |
| 29 | Though there is no appeal procedure laid down if the chairman of the meeting rejects a proxy duly lodged and therefore does not allow that creditor 's vote , it is open to the creditor affected to apply to the court for the chairman 's decision to be reversed and for a new meeting to be held . |
| 30 | The final paragraph should have explained that our objection to the proposal to put steps down if the path slipped due to the retaining wall collapsing was that a ) steps would be dangerous for the many elderly people who used the footpath ; b ) it would mean the council cutting into our upper bank and undermining our house garden wall and c ) the council should consider the alternative access to the path offered by our neighbour , Mr M Jones if they did not intend to preserve the present route . |