Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon he hopes to be at a new home in a different area , where he hopes to be able to live his life in peace . |
| 2 | Help may be found in a number of places , the most generally useful probably being in Appendix Eight to McKerrow 's An Introduction to Bibliography where he analyses with admirable clarity , and with illustrations of all the minuscules and capitals , a letter written by Thomas Kyd , the Elizabethan dramatist , to Sir John Puckering , Lord Keeper of the Great Seal . |
| 3 | ‘ The requirement that consideration must move from the promisee is most generally satisfied where some detriment is suffered by him : for example , where he parts with money or goods , or renders services , in exchange for the promise . |
| 4 | Just a brief response to a small part of Iain MacLaren 's letter , where he refers to the Royal Navy abandoning hammocks not long after the Second World War . |
| 5 | He lives — with Judy , his wife of 24 years — in Ealing , West London , where he drinks at the cricket club and , along with the Kinnocks , is one of the local celebrities . |
| 6 | For example the owner of a motor vehicle can be said to use it where he sits at the side of the driver , who is not his employee and the vehicle is being used for his purpose ( Cobb v Williams [ 1973 ] RTR 1 13 ) . |
| 7 | David Tory , the president of the Open Software Foundation , has added another directorship to his CV , joining the board of directors at Service Systems International Ltd where he sits alongside an old colleague , chairman of the board Sam Goodner . |
| 8 | This is most likely to occur where he agrees with his seller that property shall not pass to him until he has paid for them . |
| 9 | Pip is sent by his sister and Uncle Pumblechook to ‘ play ’ at Miss Havisham 's , where he falls in love with the haughty young Estella . |
| 10 | The film is about a getaway driver who decides to cast aside his criminal life , seeking refuge in the Suffolk countryside , where he falls in love , marries and starts a family , but his former associates do not want to lose him . |
| 11 | He has set up a pirate radio station in his bedroom , where he talks to the disaffected youth of his neighbourhood under the guise of Happy Harry Hard-On . |
| 12 | where he talks to people about setting up his business is a legitimate thing to record . |
| 13 | The second point of similarity emerges from the point of his analysis where he talks of changing codes of conduct . |
| 14 | He had been accused early on in the play by Agydeus that he was too barbaric to offer Zenocrate any amorous discourse , yet he manages to produce a lovely speech for her where he talks about he stunning beauty and his love for her : ‘ Zenocrate , the loveliest maid alive … whose eyes are brighter than the lamps of heaven … that with thy looks canst clear the darkened sky ’ . |
| 15 | Although students of Pound will fasten with delighted alacrity on such passages as the one just quoted about Yeats , and on one or two similar passages ( for instance , one of January 1914 , where he speaks with hostility about symbols and symbolism ) , still this book does n't really belong with other Poundiana . |
| 16 | Like Russian Formalism , Richards 's early work turns its back on positivistic scholarship , and calls for a criticism that deals directly with the distinctive properties of literature ; where he differs from the Formalists , however , is in defining these properties in terms of human experience and human value . |
| 17 | It is this preoccupation which accounts for Derrida 's choice , and forceful interrogation , of the privileged examples of Saussure — where he focuses on the ‘ profound ethnocentrism ’ of his exclusion of writing — Rousseau and Lévi-Strauss . |
| 18 | Accordingly , the most instructive gloss on ‘ externality ’ is to be found where we might expect it , in Pound 's 1916 memoir of the sculptor , Gaudier-Brzeska , where he writes of Gaudier and Lewis and other ‘ vorticists ’ , painters , and sculptors : |
| 19 | Among other things he plans to spend more time gardening at his home in Bookham , Surrey , where he lives with his wife Alison and two teenage daughters . |
| 20 | His first love is landscape painting , especially the rural scenes around his home in Farnborough , Hampshire , where he lives with his wife and two daughters . |
| 21 | They kept watch outside the flat at Sefton Park , Liverpool , where he lives with Janice Dunmore and her two children — a girl of three and an 18-month-old boy . |
| 22 | As chief executive of Norton and Yeovil-based Advanced Material Systems Ltd , MacDonald is always on the move between his two offices and the country village of Irthington , Cumbria , where he lives with his wife and children . |
| 23 | In mid-November Sinterklaas sails in his steamer from Spain [ where he lives during the rest of the year ] to Holland . |
| 24 | Sherlock Holmes leaves England for New York City where he comes to the aid of his long-time love , the famous stage actress Irene Adler . |
| 25 | ‘ This coming from a man who 's got the same surname as where he comes from ! ’ splutters Granville . |
| 26 | Where he comes from , it 's probably considered insulting not to . ’ |
| 27 | If he 's still here , would you go and talk to him for me , just casually , find out where he comes from . ’ |
| 28 | At Club LaSanta , the sporting holiday resort where he trains in Lanzarote , the other guests are clearly getting a little fillip from the rangy , easy presence of their imagistic icon , but still he was cornered one night in the bar by a posse of English girls to be accused : ‘ Oh , we hear you 're really arrogant . ’ |
| 29 | Reynard retreats to a side tunnel where he squats with his knees up . |
| 30 | ‘ The eventual aim ’ , wrote Alexander Cockburn in Student Power ‘ is the cementing of a revolutionary bloc with working-class forces ; but the immediate power of the student lies in his university , his college , where he works as a student . ’ |