Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rosa showed him into the living-room , where Luce was waiting with mixed feelings . |
| 2 | However , Albert got over that , and so did Jim , and they went into the sitting-room , where Bella was sitting in mini-gear frighteningly too young for her , with office folders on her lap . |
| 3 | — where entries are missing from the lexicon ; |
| 4 | Harley MS 6579 and marked by italics : Or further , in chapter forty-six , where Hilton is talking about the word " Iesu " as a means of focusing all the inheritance of life that the recluse desires , he says : These insertions do not add anything new , they simply expand in a particular way what has been said and they are not absolutely consistent in all the manuscripts in which they appear . |
| 5 | Stalin 's argument was part of a broader one that he derived from Lenin : the right of national self-determination was valid only where countries were passing from feudalism to capitalism . |
| 6 | The treatment of dyslexia is a controversial issue in County Durham , where parents are campaigning for changes in the local education authority 's attitude to the disability . |
| 7 | The latest haven is to be found in the Cook Islands , deep in the South Pacific , where companies are falling over themselves to register . |
| 8 | The 30-foot long skeletons are being offered for sale to museums and wildlife centres , including some in the UK , where conservationists are calling for an embargo . |
| 9 | Mohammed has expanded his trade into other Arab countries , notably Saudi Arabia , where business is booming for middlemen . |
| 10 | It was almost dark when Christina walked to the centre of the building-site , where Stephen was sorting through piles of broken terracotta roof-tiles with sore and bleeding hands . |
| 11 | Theseus made his way back through the labyrinth and out into the fresh night air where Ariadne was waiting for him Now they had to rescue the Athenians and make their escape . |
| 12 | Ann was n't sure whether to ask Amyas in or not , so she left him standing outside and hurried into the large parlour , where Harry was experimenting with tobacco . |
| 13 | Just south of it was the Jeanetta Cochrane theatre , where Haynes was working with , amongst others , Charles Marovitz , another exiled American , but , in his case , from New York 's lower east side rather than Louisiana . |
| 14 | Arrangements were carefully made so that Lunia would not be compromised and Modigliani came to paint her portrait the following day in the Sunny Hotel on the Boulevard de Port-Royal , the little lodging house where Zborowski was living with his handsome and somewhat forbidding common-law wife , Anna ( Hanka ) Zborowska . |
| 15 | She seemed to stand staring at the two of them , and they at her , for a long time , while outside , where night was making of the road a strange country , the vegetation grew black and monstrous . |
| 16 | where Lou is riding to the top again … |
| 17 | They married in 1910 and she came to live at West park , where Father was farming with his sister , Hannah . |
| 18 | ‘ The figures we found are not significantly different to those anywhere else where people are looking for the problem . ’ |
| 19 | Are soaps in a sense the subconscious of patriarchy — where patriarchy is reflecting on itself via these various problematic issues which are unresolvable within the terms that patriarchy sets ? |
| 20 | Carrying on investment business without the appropriate authorisation , except where professionals are dealing with professionals , is not only a criminal offence but may render unenforceable any contract entered into . |
| 21 | Two of my colleagues from the BBC did , it is true , succeed in smuggling an entire satellite telephone system ( complete with dish ) through Iraqi customs shortly before the war began , and there are plenty of guns in private hands which can be bought ; but the Mukhabarat are everywhere , and it would be impossible to find out where Saddam was going to be at any given time . |
| 22 | In most liberal democracies , however , political finance is important chiefly in the final stage of national elections , where voters are choosing between party leaderships . |
| 23 | Compare the level of formality in the above dialogue with that in the following extract from another dialogue where Charles is talking to his father , who happens to be the Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard : |
| 24 | Where America is heading in economic and energy terms is central to any view of the world energy future . |
| 25 | On the following day , I went to Greenham Common where women were arriving from all over Europe to take part in a demonstration against the nuclear weapons housed there . |
| 26 | By a miracle I found I could do it : standing upright on the pedals and pedalling with all my might I reached the road , where Nora was waiting for me . |
| 27 | It showed the leader board and then switched to the seventh where Krantz was preparing for a long approach putt down the kidney-shaped green . |
| 28 | According to Prokopchuk , West German intelligence knew exactly where Bormann was living in Paraguay . |
| 29 | On Sept. 24 , thousands of civilians were reported to be fleeing Bomi and Grand Cape Mount Counties in north-western Liberia , where battles were raging between NPFL and Ulimo forces . |
| 30 | Although Mum was working at the fish shop she did n't get much for her labours , sometimes only some fish and chips . |