Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the beak could hold no more , they disappeared into the depths of a thicket where presumably they had a well-hidden nest of young . |
| 2 | It all comes down to practical implementation of flexible working hours and job sharing , so that women working in the nursing profession do not have to follow male patterns of employment , where eventually they find that combining family responsibility with work is simply too difficult , and they leave . |
| 3 | He had retired to NZ after a long career in education and publishing with Schofield & Sims , Collins Educational and Holmes McDougall , where latterly he had been publishing director . |
| 4 | We come to a river , absent from my map , where suddenly I see the plains and both banks smeared with colour . |
| 5 | But it seems clear that I was diverting the feeling of cold , which pertains to the body , away from the physical and into the psychological realm , where alone I believed myself to exist . |
| 6 | Where exactly it began rather depends on whether or not you decide to categorise certain books as police procedurals or as perhaps crime novels . |
| 7 | However the alliance represents a watershed for Chorus , which is now embarked on a binary strategy for the very first time , though where exactly it goes from here is still unclear . |
| 8 | You have to develop that relationship because they can take advantage of you when ever and where ever they want . ’ |
| 9 | Where once we ruled , now we serve . |
| 10 | Where once we had Tizwas and The Tube , we now have Bob and Paula 's Big Breakfast and The Word . |
| 11 | Where once we dwelt our name is heard no more , |
| 12 | Where once he felt like giving up , he now has the zeal and determination to push further and harder and keep on going until there is real change in the way mankind behaves . |
| 13 | Where once he had been beautiful now he was hideous ; where once he had been mighty , now he was maimed . |
| 14 | Where once he had been beautiful now he was hideous ; where once he had been mighty , now he was maimed . |
| 15 | Where once he had been fair-spoken now his voice was horrible , forced out by ravaged lungs through a ruined throat . |
| 16 | Outside , the gate had gone from the basement steps , and the slanting roof of the coal hole had fallen in , but when he looked he could see the chafed paint , those marks on the rusted railings , where once he had padlocked his motorcycle . |
| 17 | Where once she had dithered over choosing a suit for a new day at school , now imminence brought her fast to action — at least in the short term . |
| 18 | Where once she had been desperate not to miss Johnny , now it seemed that she was fearful at the thought of meeting him . |
| 19 | Where once she had felt secure she now felt alone . |
| 20 | Where once I felt hatred , now I only feel compassion . |
| 21 | Even so , quick set hedges were planted on either side of these roads to fence them in , where formerly they had wandered at large . |
| 22 | Pigs had to be kept near to the farmstead , probably in nearby closes , but they could be taken to wastes and pasture and , of course , woodland , where traditionally they ate acorns and beechmast . |
| 23 | He felt that she should have cared enough to confide in us , where really she cared too much and did n't . |
| 24 | Stunned , I wobbled outside , where fortunately I found that the rain had stopped falling . |
| 25 | Where sometimes we had the back of the heads and |
| 26 | The rigid application of ‘ zoning ’ policies ( where indeed it continues ) can have a very damaging effect . ’ |
| 27 | If , upon hearing of the manifest truth of the work of art or of the textual , fictional character of the world , the reader will let a knowing smile play upon his face where previously he maintained an attitude of high seriousness , then the aim of this book will have been in part achieved . |
| 28 | Physical Changes The day after the lesson you may become aware of tensions in some muscles or you may feel an ache where previously you have had no trouble . |
| 29 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |
| 30 | He introduced a sense of subtlety and freedom into her drawings where previously she had only mimicked the technique applied to etching or engraving . |