Example sentences of "[subord] [pos pn] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm beginning to get very confused about exactly where my head stops and the rest of the world starts . |
| 2 | ‘ You know I 'm not working , I 'm down here trying to find out where my stuff 's gone to . ’ |
| 3 | There the air rises hotly and on it an eagle may soar further south to where Slorne 's kind live , and where my kind come from too . ’ |
| 4 | To the west , the intricate pinnacles of the clock-tower suddenly jumped black out of blinding light into the narrow stone frame where my forehead received the first raindrop big as a grape and cold . |
| 5 | I wonder sometimes where my cousin ended up ; at the bottom of the sea , or washed on to some craggy and deserted shore , or blown on to a high mountain face , to be eaten by gulls or eagles … |
| 6 | I had told him that I was going to Bulith Wells , near where my parents lived , and he had agreed to drop me there . |
| 7 | He used to run ceilidhs in Toonagh — that 's a village near where my parents come from — every Friday night and we used to all go over there — ‘ t was the thing we most looked forward to all week . ’ |
| 8 | I release my safety belt to hold you , dangerous ground , ground where my feet have wings of flame . |
| 9 | However , my sense of superiority was soon punctured when I gave a paper on semantics at the Philological Society , where my views met with scepticism and some hostility . |
| 10 | One of these many memories I find myself repeating , even today is to retrace our Sunday morning walks from my home in Pilrig , Leith , to a hotel near the Tron Kirk ( where my aunt worked as a housekeeper ) stopping first at a statue , halfway up the Mound , of a kilted figure representing the Black Watch who died in the Boer War . |
| 11 | I was born in 1902 in Windsor , where my father was head gardener on a small estate named Abbey House , and where my mother had been cook . |
| 12 | I still had a formless feeling that she understood me where my mother did not . |
| 13 | For the first year I had a room on campus but I was n't happy there so I returned to Cliff Top , where my mother put one of the caravans at my disposal . |
| 14 | During this time , the rest of the family might take a holiday — staying in the attic of Uncle Jim 's boarding house at Morecambe Bay , where my mother helped with the cooking and serving , or borrowing Auntie Mary 's caravan for a week at Saltburn . |
| 15 | ‘ I landed on a lump of wood , felt another crash on to my face and was just getting up when a huge piece of glass fell where my neck had been . |
| 16 | I 'd been in and out of hospitals , where my veins had been pumped full of glucose because I 'd refused to eat . |
| 17 | Today , in my constituency of Brecon and Radnor , where my father came from and where I come from , unemployment has doubled in the past 15 months . |
| 18 | She took me into the first-floor front room , where my father had already been laid out in his coffin . |
| 19 | It was one evening when I happened to be valeting him , Mr Charles told me he had come across my father some years earlier while a guest at Loughborough House — the home of Mr John Silvers , the industrialist , where my father served for fifteen years at the height of his career . |
| 20 | Where my father shaved |
| 21 | Imagine my horror when I found out that the fire had now spread to this building , where my father worked . |
| 22 | The smith 's shop where my father worked was reached through a doorway at the right of the carpenter 's shop . |
| 23 | ‘ Now I can speak of Callanish , ’ Minch continued more slowly , ‘ where my ancestors flew and where once so long ago I cast my shadow down . ’ |
| 24 | The left haunch was matted red with blood where my pellet had hit it . |
| 25 | There was just an empty space where my hatred had been . |
| 26 | Zen obediently rose and followed , wondering as a dog perhaps does at his stupidity in not understanding why they were going that way , where their enemies lay in wait . |
| 27 | To suggest continuity between himself and the triumphant generals of the later Republic , Octavian reconstructed all the buildings in the area of the Porticus Metelli , where their booty had been displayed . |
| 28 | The Nightriders choir , including Santa , helped 1,000 passengers pass the time at Stansted , Essex , as they waited to be taken by bus to Luton or Gatwick where their flights had been diverted . |
| 29 | At about the same time an advance party from the RMP detachment of ten volunteer ‘ redcaps ’ leave for a short journey to Thorey Island , where their company has planned a military skills training weekend . |
| 30 | While Whitman established his mission among the Cayuse , the Spaldings ventured 120 miles east to Lapwai , ‘ Place of Butterflies ’ , on the Clearwater , where their mission grew slowly . |