Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb -s] [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ So what I think we 've got to do , ’ says Howard , ‘ is to set up a society where everyone has enough sort of … contentment … to be sort of contented , but not so much that they ca n't see that all this sort of contentment is sort of blinding them to the possibility of becoming sort of more contented in a sort of kind of deeper sort of … ’ |
| 2 | It 's not the case with opera , where everyone walks backwards and sounds God-awful . |
| 3 | The Revenue will not impose interest or penalties on anyone who has simply misunderstood the position , but will consider doing so where someone has knowingly made false or fraudulent declarations on the registration form , or deliberately failed to inform their bank or building society that they had become liable to tax . |
| 4 | The opening day scene on the Marton route in 1901 , where nobody looks very happy , which might be a reflection of the rough ride given by the first car ! |
| 5 | Having been left by her husband in his urge for voyages abroad , Erendis retreats to the centre of Númenor , away from the sea , where she hears only the bleating of sheep . |
| 6 | Until the final custody proceedings are over , it is best for Kirsty that she remain here , where her friends are , where she feels most at home . ’ |
| 7 | She will be accompanied on the year-long exercise by colleagues from Bristol University , where she has just completed her final examination for a zoology degree . |
| 8 | She has won her spurs in her role as Minister of Health , where she has frequently had to appear in place of her beleaguered former boss , William Waldegrave . |
| 9 | ‘ Where she lives now . |
| 10 | This is an opportunity to strengthen existing partnerships by securing board membership from a linked company , or to begin the process of negotiation which might lead to a productive partnership where none exists thus far . |
| 11 | Therefore , the concept of centralisation will apply even where something concerns only one Member State if it conforms with the objectives of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 12 | And of course that is specially true and where one differs frequently from one 's successors . |
| 13 | Christie 's in King Street , St James 's also give big summer and winter parties , which are the greatest fun and where one meets so many friends , as well as seeing exciting items for sale . |
| 14 | In Bohemia especially , with its long tradition of industrialisation stretching back to the 1830s , where there has always been a strong commitment to the idea of social equality , where the call for national equality against the Germans had a strong social context , it 's quite logical that some kind of socialist or social thought will in the end prevail . |
| 15 | He 's so good seeing he 's only been here two days . |
| 16 | There is no special law allowing A , B , and C to meet together in the open air or elsewhere for a lawful purpose , but the right of A to go where he pleases so that he does not commit a trespass , and to say what he likes to B so that his talk is not libellous or seditious , the right of B to do the like , and the existence of the same rights of C , D , E , and F and so on ad infinitum , lead to the consequence that A , B , C , D and a thousand or ten thousand other persons , may ( as a general rule ) meet together in any place where otherwise they each have a right to be for a lawful purpose and in a lawful manner . |
| 17 | Where he does so the court associate must , at the conclusion of the trial , record that opinion in his certificate so that an appropriate reduction may be considered ( Ord 35 , r 10A ) . |
| 18 | Where he comes seriously adrift , however , is in tackling the practical and ethical issues that arise from this uniquely far-reaching area of research . |
| 19 | He is currently being held in 9 avril Prison where he has reportedly been held virtually naked for up to four days in cachots ( small damp isolation cells ) . |
| 20 | where he has so recently expended himself , disappear beneath her skirt , pulled down in one deft movement . |
| 21 | In the first scene , where he has only marginally greater status than McKendrick ( his university is more prestigious ) , but where McKendrick is a stranger to him , he does not risk threatening McKendrick 's negative face ( the term used by Brown and Levinson ( 1978 ) for the individual 's desire not to have one 's freedom impinged upon by others ) by encroaching on his conversational space through interrupting . |
| 22 | And despite his hectic intercontinental schedule — commuting from his home in Paris to his musical duties in Chicago and Berlin ( where he has recently been appointed head of the Berlin Staatsoper ) — he always tries to set aside an hour or so every afternoon to sit in a cafe , nursing a coffee ( while , of course , veiling himself in a cloud of cigar smoke ) . |
| 23 | Instead of seeing the person depicted on the duckpond surface of the polaroids , he sees an amalgam : this one 's slightly dark upper lip , this one 's nervy legs , this one 's role in Le Médecin malgré lui at the Comédie Française ( where he has recently sat through an excruciating evening of seventeenth-century high camp ) , this one 's intensely white and brown eyes , this one 's professed love of Shakespeare , this one 's part in an erotic thriller ( he can remember her buttocks from that movie , but he ca n't fix them to the right actress without his notes ) . |
| 24 | Jim Clark spends his working day in the store-room of Stoddards Carpets — but in his spare time , he is doing excellent work for Elderslie Boys Club where he has recently arranged a football trip to Holland . |
| 25 | Jack Birkenshaw , back where he has always felt he most belongs , has a hard job ahead in trying to restore Leicestershire to their long-lost glories . |
| 26 | There is a strong sense that he is not unaffected by his experiences , and emerges as a slightly different character at the end of the play , where he appears more direct and less polite . |
| 27 | Where it occurs much lower down a recovery is unlikely , and the accident should be put down either to the failure to maintain a safe airspeed at low altitudes , or to bad planning leading to a situation from which a crash is almost unavoidable . |
| 28 | Looking into the Danube here , where it flows fast , deep and immensely powerful , it was difficult to imagine anyone surviving . |
| 29 | When two cats are fighting and one is forced into submission , it often performs what is called ‘ cut-off ’ , where it turns away from its tormentor and shuts its eyes , trying to blot out the frightening image of its dominant rival . |
| 30 | We corkscrewed on our way working towards the lee of the Buchan coast , where it turns westward into the Firth . |