Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome . |
| 2 | I then went to Coventry Belgrade for six months , where I did everything from Malcolm in Macbeth to the play Charlie 's Aunt . |
| 3 | Eating and drinking is particularly good value — you can get a 6 course ‘ Mezes ’ meal , where you get lots of small dishes of Turkish delicacies for about £3 although a good bottle of wine may set you back 70p ! |
| 4 | He seemed to have come to the deep , still centre of the sea : a place where you felt nothing , where you saw nothing except the coal-black atoms that danced before your face and knitted up the dark . |
| 5 | Now , the beauty of this sort of explanation , where you have everybody on your side , when you are dealing with somebody who is unpopular , when you are all desperately anxious to find a scapegoat , is that your argument is unlikely to be at all jealously scrutinised . |
| 6 | Then we drive down to the drive-in restaurant where we eat lots of crap including a double order of onion rings . |
| 7 | His principles are chosen by people behind a hypothetical ‘ veil of ignorance ’ , where they know nothing of their social position in society , their sex , race , abilities or conceptions of the good ( Rawls , 1972 , in particular pt . |
| 8 | It only came out a couple of times , and I could n't get the words apart the end where it sounded something like ‘ scores off the bar , F*CK CANTONA , Brian Deane , Brian Deane , Brian Deane ’ . |
| 9 | we get more of you than me get plenty of me on these . |
| 10 | Looking back on the elements I have enumerated — of change , internationalism and achievement — I do not find it so surprising that I chose an industrial career , although I knew nothing of all this when I joined ICI . |
| 11 | Although I remained something of an outsider to the M.I.T. philosophy as it was at that time , I carried something of this arrogance back to England with me . |
| 12 | Erm I 'm always overjoyed when people say things like that to me , that you 've just said , er but I think I understand acting more than I understand anything in the world . |
| 13 | My disability makes this rather a slow process , so I had plenty of time . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd spent two years at Stanford University Press , so I knew something about price ceilings . ’ |
| 15 | I thought the best thing to do was spare Oliver 's blushes , so I murmured something about getting off to work . |
| 16 | The males started fighting , so I moved one to another tank , leaving two females with one male . |
| 17 | I was convinced that the law would back us , so I found someone at a local law centre and she confirmed it , so we went back . |
| 18 | Environmental issues are also important to Alison although she believes none of the major parties have a good green record . |
| 19 | Well Mrs Toad is having a sale in her shop + + she has laid out her caish + cash register + + an' a number of pots of tea + + it 's gon na be a special sale because + + so she has th' + a sign up saying + prices are slashed + so she hopes lots of customers will be coming along + to visit her + + while she ‘ s waiting for customers + she goes about setting out the rest of + of the shop + + for things in the sale + + an ’ she brings on + large cans of tin + of tea + + for + she can only carry one at a time + so she walks on with one and puts it on the counter + + |
| 20 | It was about forty miles from York at present , so she had plenty of time . |
| 21 | She and Susan had rooms adjoining , so she had none of the creepy feelings one often gets in a strange house . |
| 22 | ‘ So you heard none of the commotion when Sarah Parker roused Dr Darnell ? ’ |
| 23 | This beautiful golden ointment-like sauce is really the pivot and raison d " être of the whole affair , so you need plenty of it . |
| 24 | Just as you have a routine for looking after your skin , so you need one for looking after your hair . |
| 25 | Although we know nothing of her education , she writes that the Countess was ‘ directed ’ by a mother famed for her furtherance of Protestant and humanist learning , Catharine Bertie , dowager Duchess of Suffolk [ q.v. ] , and we may suppose that more than usual attention was paid to her reading . |
| 26 | The production of axes from these sites was on a prodigious scale , although we know nothing of how they were traded and distributed all over England and Wales . |
| 27 | But at least we managed to keep it in the UK , although we had lots of offers to go abroad . |
| 28 | She went on without prompting : ‘ Although he was a painter he was a very literary man so we had plenty in common . |
| 29 | All right , so we owe everything to Capella . |
| 30 | Some parts of the towpath are already in a cyclable condition ; we shall be working on the parts which are not — a total distance of about one mile , so we need plenty of volunteers ! |