Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm aware that we are in very subjective territory here and I have already confessed where my own preferences lie , but I 'm not alone in my opinion that the 80R 's channel two falls short of the mark , because every one of us here has come away with the same opinion . |
| 2 | The sleeping-car attendant sighed deeply at so much opulent femininity and philosophically returned to his roomette , and I went on up the train into the next car , where my own bed lay . |
| 3 | In any case they were quite clear where their own priorities lay : |
| 4 | The head needs to encourage staff to scrounge for good management , display and communications ideas from schools where they have previously worked , schools where their own children attend , industry , supermarkets , courses , magazines and even books . |
| 5 | For working-class women , especially the many who lived still in conditions of severe poverty where their own wages were essential to the household , a decision to share a household with an elderly person simply could not mean full-time unpaid caring . |
| 6 | They now supposed that Marian and Allen must be trying to pass the depression to the south , and if this were so there was still ample time to position themselves to cut off that route although it involved going considerably deeper into the forest and into territory where their own danger was greater . |
| 7 | He says these forces will move into areas where the retreating Serbs ( or Croats or Muslims ) ‘ have been protecting villages and towns where their own constituent people are in the majority . ’ |
| 8 | And then to watch Annunciata trip back to the kitchen , where her own Ferdinando was preparing supper , was too much . |
| 9 | Dana had a blind spot where her own interests lay . |
| 10 | She could taste blood now on her lips where her own teeth had bitten them , could see blood flecking her vision , hear it pounding in her ears as she ran , propelled by the first hot rush of her panic so that when she collided with the rough corner of a market stall she did not feel it ; when she stumbled again and scrambled to her feet she was unaware of her grazed hands and knees ; heedless of brewers ' drays , the hooves of heavy horses ; the outrage of the passers-by she pushed aside ; the woman with the heavy market basket she knocked over . |
| 11 | Where her own fantasy fitted in , he did not know . |
| 12 | She heard her grandmother informing her that out there , in that Mongolian vastness , was ‘ The Dragon 's Tomb ’ where her own great-grandfather had gone to find the dinosaur eggs . |
| 13 | Secure in your status at work , becoming a parent may cause confusion — a woman may have to adjust from a professional role to a maternal one , where her own needs become relegated ; a father may have to adjust to there being a new small person in the family who makes his role seem less significant . |
| 14 | He ignored her , lifting her with his strong arms on to the bed , his hands still on her thighs and dangerously moving inwards where her own fires burned unchecked , waiting to be extinguished . |
| 15 | It was in these few rooms that the last act of the drama took place , for the rest of the building remained unused except for those rooms near to the Empress 's apartments where her few attendants camped out , sleeping on improvised beds and working , when necessary , on the corners of tables hastily cleared to provide space on which to write . |
| 16 | It was our pleasure seeing you this evening . ’ |
| 17 | For he was an eagle in flight to the North where his own kind were and no raven nor man would stop him now . |
| 18 | Fardine took us to the edge of his terrace , where his own pigeons were kept in a large coop . |
| 19 | He was educated at Wallingford Grammar School , on the Thames , where his own ability was aroused by a ‘ whizz-kid ’ music teacher . |
| 20 | At a time when English officialdom has been worrying about the fact that some among their top youngsters are playing more golf than is good for them , Stevely has had the same feelings where his own pupils are concerned . |
| 21 | Where an officer wants to see what a new or unconsented discharge consists of , therefore , or where his own judgment suggests that a discharge may be polluting , he turns to his sample bucket , which offers the ultimate means for practical purposes of establishing the kind and degree of pollution . |
| 22 | A wilderness is a place of contrast , where our own rules and values for living can be challenged , where we can learn something about humility and the inventive resilience of unmanaged nature . |
| 23 | I love you more than me own self . |
| 24 | GH-K are the only club in the relegation zone with a positive points differential : indeed , only league leaders Melrose have scored more points than them this season . |
| 25 | As life in general was unreal and remote — seen through a sheet of glass — so my own suffering seemed unreal . |
| 26 | ‘ So my own cottage on the Donegal shore where I can slip away when I 'm not filming is the answer . |
| 27 | However insignificant in myself I am the Representative on this question of no mean body in this country who would be … disappointed and chagrined at the suspension of the question — But further — and this is a consideration far more really influential on my Conduct — I can not but feel myself the Representative of a Body who can not speak for themselves and for whom I must act without other guide than my own Conscience . |
| 28 | In the air at around 3,500 feet I found that , provided one held it with the antenna close to horizontal , the ICOM IC-A20 MkII could produce quite accurate VOR indications at distances of well over 25 nm from the VOR — rather better than my own King KX99 does . |
| 29 | Got on better with him than my own parents , ’ she said wistfully . |
| 30 | ‘ I began to realise that you had wonderful qualities , though I had to convince my mother with something more than my own feelings and impressions . |