Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They travelled to Mundemba , 230 kms west of the airport at Doula , where the WWF Park HQ is situated and where their first task awaited them . |
| 2 | She does n't get a newspaper and had to ask the social security for new shoes for the two children at school where their last pair of trainers got holes . |
| 3 | I simply ca n't stand whizz-kid City high-flyers who think of nothing but profit and loss accounts and their latest seven-series BMW and where their next magnum of Bollinger is coming from ! ’ |
| 4 | If someone were ill with starvation , it would be cruel and thoughtless to advise them to look after their spiritual life and not worry about where their next meal was coming from . |
| 5 | The Stillmans moved to Florence in 1878 , whence she continued to send work regularly to exhibitions in Britain and the USA , where her first appearance in 1875 had drawn favourable notice from the novelist and art amateur Henry James [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | Liz is now under close watch at her Bel Air home where her seventh husband Larry Fortensky is nursing her . |
| 7 | Betty Gilling was at the cottage door , her white hair knotted prettily on top of her head and her arms folded over the mound of her stomach where her eighth child was curled , almost ready to be born . |
| 8 | Marks had grown greyer , more hairy , more stringy in the years-since their last meeting but he was the same man , shrewd , cynical , and a cop to the bone . |
| 9 | Those were offset by a double bogey at the par-five 15th , where his second shot went into the water . |
| 10 | He arrived back at his parents ' home in Bures St Mary near Sudbury , Suffolk , yesterday where his first task was to wash off the grime of Patagonia , much of it volcanic dust . |
| 11 | In prison he did n't have to worry about where his next meal was coming from . |
| 12 | George sat looking like a frog who has no idea where his next fly is coming from . |
| 13 | At first they worked in the Direktor 's villa , then moved to the icy theatre , where his last fear was removed . |
| 14 | Smash Hits will want to know about your make-up or your boxer shorts , Melody Maker leans towards aesthetics and primal therapy and the local Argus might just want to know a few biographical details and where your next gig is . |
| 15 | now if I want to go down to the sea front well I 'll shall get a taxi and , and sha n't be worrying where me next meals coming from because I 've saved it , so , so that 's , that 's no worry , I was saying to Arthur if we went to Butlins well it would take all we had , because it , we could n't go to Butlins under three hundred pounds for two of us , we could n't go anywhere else , if we go to Blackpool , our , our said to , to , to dad , I , I would like to pop to , er I do n't think we will do because , er , the hassle for your dad , but er , I 'd like to go and see aunty Annie , but I do n't want to go to Nelson to do it |
| 16 | In the pinewoods below the cliff the air was still and I remember being distinctly intimidated by the size of Raven Rock , where our first tick of the day was to be found . |
| 17 | But with these we guarded the water works , patrolled the hills and woods , and maintained a guard duty at Rugby Works , where our first H.Q. was situated , working our normal jobs by day and on duty by night . |
| 18 | ‘ So my first thought was of a time-space machine ( thanks to H. G. Wells ) in which contemporary characters ( one of whom I wanted to be a 12–13 year old ) would be able to travel forward and backward in time , and inward and outward in space . |
| 19 | ‘ No worse than my first day as a medical student , anyway . |
| 20 | It was far worse than my first day on the wards . ’ |
| 21 | Arran 's Bill again went through the Lords without too much trouble but , by this time , a sponsor had been found , and Leo Abse introduced the Sexual Offences Bill in the Commons in July 1966 , although its second reading was delayed until 19 December . |
| 22 | The chair was slipping , although its first speed had been checked by the fact that she had fallen in front of the wheels . |
| 23 | They came to Raasay House on the evening of Wednesday , 8 September , and stayed for four nights , a shorter stay than their first spell on Skye . |
| 24 | As we said our goodbyes and hoped to meet up again soon , I could n't help thinking as I watched the column disappear in the distance that the Marines were not going to find the situation any easier than their last venue . |
| 25 | His face , less hollowed and drawn already than her first impression of it , possessed a quality in repose she could only describe as beauty , of a very virile , masculine variety . |
| 26 | She knew that her husband was well past it and that she herself was beyond the age of childbearing , so her first reaction was to laugh . |
| 27 | Radius Inc warns that it expects to report a second quarter operating loss larger than its first quarter operating loss , and that second quarter revenues to March 31 will be below the $36.9m reported for the first quarter , when it lost $0.05 per share or $713,000 ; it has seen slowing demand for its Macintosh enhancement products in Europe and to a lesser extent in the US . |
| 28 | Feature analysis is an attractively simple way of explaining visual perception but , it turns out , ‘ features ’ are much more complex than we first thought . |
| 29 | The actual process of putting them together proved to be an awful lot more difficult than we first thought . |
| 30 | The Williamses fell in love with the outside of the house at first sight and Pauline admits the condition inside was far worse than they first thought . |