Example sentences of "[subord] [noun prp] [noun] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , Ratty 's emotional , if not his ecological , headquarters , the river Pang between Reading and Newbury , where Kenneth Grahame wrote his classic , has been subjected to a notoriously insensitive drainage scheme . |
| 2 | Europe 's oldest remaining glass cone , dating from the mid-eighteenth century , stands here where William Fenney started his own glass works in 1740 after experience as a works manager on the other side of Sheffield . |
| 3 | It was not her first transatlantic flight , as she was in the French team last autumn in Washington , New York and Toronto , where Miss Ledermann rode her into second place in the World Cup round , behind Britain 's Tina Cassan and Genesis . |
| 4 | So the wobbly beauty of ‘ Chasing A Bee ’ , ‘ Frittering ’ and endless mantra ‘ Very Sleepy Rivers ’ is offset by tangled thickets of sound , where David Baker practises his booming space cadet comedy voice and improvisation becomes a euphemism ( as only too often ) for indulgent incompetence . |
| 5 | Expansion in education became suddenly less attractive , as well as being less affordable : in New York the Columbia University sit-in began in April , Paris flared into disorder in May , and in January 1969 trouble was to spread to the London School of Economics , where David Donnison had his chair . |
| 6 | A second trip to Russia in 1991 involved a trip to the Kremlin where Signor Datrino proposed his exhibition , involving the significant loan of treasures in return for sponsorship of restoration , restructuring and other work at the Kremlin . |
| 7 | Awarded an 1851 exhibition two-year travelling scholarship , from 1899 he worked in Paris ( under P. van Tieghem and M. Cornu ) , Antibes ( where G. Poirault introduced him to chytrids ) , Freiburg ( under F. Oltmanns ) , and finally the Jodrell laboratory of the Royal Botanic Gardens , Kew . |
| 8 | Comic look at American racism in MRS DELAFIELD WANTS TO MARRY , where Katherine Hepburn shocks her family with the news she 's to wed a Jewish doctor . |
| 9 | Most of the Northern Ireland seats counting overnight are safe , but South Down — where Enoch Powell ended his political career in 1987 — is on a knife-edge . |
| 10 | John McCarthy , Terry Waite , Jackie Mann and spent time in a special unit where Dr Turnbull helped them come to terms with what had happened to them . |
| 11 | They were produced in court , where Sergeant Thorpe explained they had new pockets . |
| 12 | Four miles up , past the fallow deer in the grounds of Powder ham Castle , past Lympstone with its red sandstone cliffs , past the eyesore high-rise blocks where Prince Edward rejected his career with the Marines — until we were below Topsham . |
| 13 | In July he was in a nursing home where Rupert Hart-Davis found him reading a detective story and studying a Penguin book of crossword puzzles — he was " in excellent spirits but his breathing was bad " . |
| 14 | Mr Justice Hamilton is chairman of a tribunal of inquiry into malpractices within the Irish beef industry , where Mr Reynolds made his claim about industry and commerce minister Mr O'Malley a week ago . |
| 15 | Tim Clayson , prosecuting , said the four had driven to Redcar market where Mr Archer had his stall that he had bought from Miller 's estranged husband . |
| 16 | But then it is all explained in the last paragraph , where Sir Kingsley gives his highest praise to Clive James , for heaven 's sake . |
| 17 | In the middle of Fifth Avenue , where Pevsner Road crossed it , was another small grocer 's and a pub called the Boxer , and at the far end , opposite each other , a unisex hairdresser 's and a betting shop . |
| 18 | Its one and only race was 1966 British Grand Prix where Trevor Taylor lined it up on 18th place on the grid and retired during the very first lap . |
| 19 | Wostenholme , the Amateur champion , tall , debonair in his white fedora straw hat bearing the crest of Augusta and with all the ‘ cut ’ of his late father , Guy , pondered again the 500-yard hole across the pond , where Gene Sarazen made his albatross two in 1935 . |
| 20 | In early 1981 , the Israelis had staged an air raid against the Rashidiyeh Palestinian camp — where Mrs Zamzam had her home — and I drove down to southern Lebanon from Beirut to report on the attack . |
| 21 | We went into the garden , where Mrs Goreng showed them her flourishing orchids . |
| 22 | Another breakthrough came with the discovery that the Swindon nightclub where Mrs Campbell spent her last hours had filmed her leaving the premises on its security video . |
| 23 | Another breakthrough came with the discovery that the Swindon nightclub where Mrs Campbell spent her last hours had filmed her leaving the premises on its security video . |
| 24 | He roared down the passage to the back-kitchen , where Mary O'Dell hugged him and promised him a slice of fruitcake still warm from the oven , if he was a good boy and ate up all his bread and butter first . |
| 25 | The ships that had survived were divided , some to continue with the trade that was their life-blood ; the rest thinly spread through the Sudreyar , including Man , where Bishop Hrolf cultivated his souls and his fortifications with equal exuberance and had received from his smith on Holmepatrick , in his scant leisure from illegal coining , a custom-made tunic of chain-mail with the cross of Christ on every ring of it . |
| 26 | Another , from the harbour to St Juliot 's Church through the delightful Valency Valley ( where Thomas Hardy courted his Emma ) , is particularly lovely in spring , when you tread upon a carpet of bluebells and primroses . |
| 27 | It 's a far cry from Lille , World Cup excitement , the All Blacks and a crowd of well over 30,000 to an open field on the University of Victoria campus where BRITISH COLUMBIA opened its defence of the Canadian Senior Provincial Championship , on November 9 and 10 . |
| 28 | The novel is not named from its great house ( as are Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey ) , but from the comfortable home , no longer bleak , where John Jarndyce exercises his abundant hospitality . |
| 29 | But I erm I was born in West Norwood , nes , wo West Norwood but where John Major took you to last night on his tour |
| 30 | I was always afraid that once Maria Luisa returned you would choose her rather than me . ’ |