Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such cases may have been exceptional , but a great many servants seem to have passed their lives in households where their employers knew them by their functions , not their names . |
| 2 | When object-oriented database systems become more widely available , there may be a number of application domains where their advantages make them a good choice . |
| 3 | Of the priests we know little , except where their transgressions brought them to episcopal notice . |
| 4 | Where their partners control what they manage , women can find their attempts to meet health needs and financial commitments thwarted . |
| 5 | Her gold hair lay round her like a mantle , but where its strands crossed her face they stirred a little with her breathing , so that the tailor knew she was alive . |
| 6 | Where it licked the Wizards ' Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth colour , octarine ; where its outriders found their way into the vats and oil stores all along Merchant Street it progressed in a series of blazing fountains and explosions ; in the streets of the perfume blenders it burned with a sweetness ; where it touched bundles of rare and dry herbs in the storerooms of the drugmasters it made men go mad and talk to God . |
| 7 | Her lower lip stung and burned where her teeth pierced it . |
| 8 | Accessibility is not so important with the small , closed conferences because the participants are usually either highly motivated in the first place ( because of specialist interest or commitment ) or their employers require them to go or at least agree that they should . |
| 9 | She would n't want cats ' hairs on her clothes or their claws snagging her tights . |
| 10 | In October of that year , while she was teaching in Columbia , South Carolina , she had realised that her work to that point expressed what her teachers or her friends expected it to ; and she determined , then , that she should allow it to express what she was feeling . |
| 11 | A good agent really understands the route a band has to take and must have a great relationship with his or her promoters to persuade them to believe in an artist . |
| 12 | Instead of wrestling with the imponderables of land and trees and drainage and crops , he was back where his skills gave him a harsh certainty . |
| 13 | Other easily recognised Balanchine signatures can be seen in passages marked Stretto where his dancers stab their toes into the floor as they travel across the stage in posés attitudes devant or à la seconde . |
| 14 | He had gone into his father 's firm of solicitors where his looks endeared him to wives in divorce cases , although his extreme reluctance to take decisions prevented them obtaining the best results . |
| 15 | Cortot 's 1933 B flat minor Sonata is also a far cry from one made in 1953 , where his powers failed him almost totally and is , indeed , of a dizzying aplomb and brio . |
| 16 | The colonel ran out into the road , blocked the animal 's path and guided it into his own yard , where his children calmed it . ’ |
| 17 | When his strength , therefore , or his speed , or his limbs , or his senses fail him , he is delivered over , either to absolute famine , or to the protracted wretchedness of a life slowly wasted by the scarcity of food . |
| 18 | The tightly packed schiltrons might have been in some danger if the enemy 's Welsh archers had been used at once ; but Edward or his advisers thought they could settle things swiftly by an all-out cavalry charge . |
| 19 | Whether it was the high volume of radio traffic , FAKINTIL sabotage , or his underlings keeping it from him , I 'll never know . |
| 20 | Followers of Gandhi explicitly maintain that he was essentially a practical man with no concern for metaphysics or philosophical speculation , yet it is clear that whenever he attempted to explain what he meant by Truth he was involved in metaphysical speculation whether he or his followers realized it or not . |
| 21 | For example if I 'm looking at O-level history , ‘ What sorts of things do you think might be important , or what kinds of evidence do you think I ought to collect , or what issues do you think I ought to take into account ? ’ ’ |
| 22 | Now for example if I 'm looking at O level history , what sort of things do you think might be important , or what kinds of evidence do you think I ought to collect , or what issues do you think I ought to take into account ? ’ . |
| 23 | So , because we were in the A A he said you could have a ba , and we had to go to court , we had a summons for court , for careless driving , your dad and your dad said oh so A A said you could have barrister , or our insurers said we could have a barrister our insurers , not the one with we 're with now Norman , he was to do all the , said we could have this barrister and it was at Liverpool Crown Court and , it was n't till a , and I was alright we we just got a bit of a shock , you know , we could drive the home it was the wing and what not . |
| 24 | On the fourth day we moved our camp a few miles to the east , where our trackers maintained we should find the nyala more numerous ; this proved to be the case . |
| 25 | When we reached the street corner where our ways separated I asked him not to tell anyone . |
| 26 | That lets you or your students put your own version of a commentary to a programme . |
| 27 | If you have a friendly GP or know somebody at your hospital ask them whether they would be prepared to carry a poster or your brochures advertising your personal injury work . |
| 28 | I phoned your office on 6 April and left a message asking you or your colleagues to let me know the position but I have not heard to date . |
| 29 | Please can you or your readers help me ? |
| 30 | I was very glad that my acquaintances escorted me to the Metro , with instructions to change at Dentfert-Rochereau for the Cité Universitaire , where I had managed to book a room in the Pavillon Franco-Britannique . |