Example sentences of "[subord] [pos pn] [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took me into the first-floor front room , where my father had already been laid out in his coffin . |
| 2 | While Whitman established his mission among the Cayuse , the Spaldings ventured 120 miles east to Lapwai , ‘ Place of Butterflies ’ , on the Clearwater , where their mission grew slowly . |
| 3 | However , direct coercive sanctions require continuous effort , and may in fact be a rather brittle form of social control , so we should not expect dominant groups in different societies to rely wholly and simply on such crude means of retaining their power and privilege , especially where their position has long been entrenched . |
| 4 | Although Catriona Lambert , the first round leader , managed an opening 76 which took in two eagles where her ball chased downwind at two of the par-5s , there was many a disaster story . |
| 5 | Vulnerable places on her neck and throat were kissed before his lips found their way to her breast , where her nipples had again firmed into rosebuds . |
| 6 | She came from a prominent Bristol family of nonconformists and industrialists , where her father had long been active in the abolitionist movement . |
| 7 | It was ten years ago , ’ he reminded her wryly , glancing down at his forearm where her hand had briefly brushed . |
| 8 | Leith had a brief discussion with Robert Drewer on a few matters , collected up several files while she was at it , then went to her own office , where her assistant had just arrived . |
| 9 | Kathleen Mary , my mother , was a Vigors from County Carlow where her family had long been established at Burgage , their ancestral home . |
| 10 | Her eyes were on a level with his chest , where his tie hung crookedly from a casually loosened knot . |
| 11 | He 's back home where his mum does all his cooking , washing and ironing for him . |
| 12 | Lambert touched down shakily , got lost and drove into some bog where his wheels stuck fast , the nose buried itself , and the tail reared high like a flag on a steeple . |
| 13 | Still , it 's a bold attempt to put his art where his mouth has always been and you ca n't help willing him to succeed . |
| 14 | Fluent in English and Spanish , he has been seconded by the Japan External Trade Organisation ( JETRO ) and recruited from the Sumitomo Corporation where his career spans over 30 years . |
| 15 | In order to clear the bowel for the investigations , Mr Reynolds had a low residue diet and then a period of time before each investigation where his intake consisted only of fluids . |
| 16 | a fixed-term contract for one year or more entered into from 1 October 1980 can include an agreement in writing by you to exclude any claim that you may have for unfair dismissal , where your dismissal consists only of the expiry of the term ; |
| 17 | a fixed-term contract for two years or more entered into from 6 December 1965 can include an agreement in writing by you to exclude any claim that you may have for state redundancy pay , where your dismissal consists only of the expiry of the term . |
| 18 | a fixed-term contract for one year or more entered into from 1 October 1980 can include an agreement in writing by you to exclude any claim that you may have for unfair dismissal , where your dismissal consists only of the expiry of the term ; |
| 19 | a fixed-term contract for two years or more entered into from 6 December 1965 can include an agreement in writing by you to exclude any claim that you may have for state redundancy pay , where your dismissal consists only of the expiry of the term . |
| 20 | Examination of these will show their strengths and areas where your school appears much stronger . |
| 21 | Writing is that neutral , composite , oblique space where our subject slips away , the negative where all identity is lost , starting with the very identity of the body writing . |
| 22 | My parents were stricter with us than my granny had ever been . |
| 23 | I also operate with the assumption that , although my results pertain strictly only to the sample of forty housewives I interviewed , there is no reason why they should not relate to the wider population of housewives , since it can not be shown that the forty women are unrepresentative of the larger population . |
| 24 | I therefore included it as a separate mode although my analysis remained highly tentative . |
| 25 | Anyway this particular Monday morning I did n't feel like getting up although my Mam had already shouted : ‘ If he thinks he 's going to have me at his beck and call just to get him his breakfast when he wants , he 's got another think coming . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Those are officers , although my son has never commanded men in battle . |
| 27 | although my plants have never been inclined to follow suit . |
| 28 | She could hardly have been much of a friend of Liza because , although her daughter had never been forthcoming about her time in the ATS , she had certainly never mentioned an Eleanor Fuller . |
| 29 | She kept , it was said , her own household and ruled her own fiefs , and although her name had never been linked with any man Alexei knew of , marriage to her was not a prospect which he thought he would be able to face with equanimity . |
| 30 | Although her decision to do so did not ultimately affect her position as one of this country 's most important early modernists , it is my contention that it had a profound effect on the development of her art in the 1920s and , possibly , for the rest of her life . |