Example sentences of "where he [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He earned his first Chair , at Southampton , in 1972 , and in 1981 he took up the oldest and most senior Chair of Archaeology in Britain , the Disney Professorship at Cambridge , where he is presiding over a great expansion of archaeological studies there with the creation of the Macdonald Institue for Archaeological Research . |
| 2 | The City players collected almost £1,000 to enable Lisa Johnson to join Lake in Los Angeles where he is recovering from a transplant operation on his knee . |
| 3 | Er Madam Speaker , I I agree with er the honourable gentleman that it 's extremely important that the various agencies do play a part in working together to ensure effective action with minimum bureaucracy and I know that the honourable gentleman has been anxious to ensure that that happens in his own constituency and his own area where he is dealing with the problems of high unemployment er and the fall out from the closures of pits in his area and if the honourable gentleman has any specific er er measures which he would like us to look at then I 'd be very happy to consider those . |
| 4 | Holyfield , watching Ruddock gunned down live on the American HBO cable network at his training camp home in Houston where he is preparing for his November 13 defence against Bowe , said : ‘ Sure , Lewis looked good but I 'm not alarmed because I 'm a very cool person . |
| 5 | World Cup no.8 Glenn Ennis will be travelling from Tokyo , where he and massive lock Norm Hadley are working for the Suntory Corporation , while Scott Steward , who won four caps during the World Cup , two on the wing and two at fullback , will fly from the south of France , where he is playing for Dax . |
| 6 | ‘ He stays in the Rorim , or at Carnach Rorim , where he is going after Ringill . |
| 7 | Jim is a hard hitting sort of individual who knows where he is going in racing and he has brought Down Royal , I feel , out of the 17th century into the 20th — not quite the 21st — in a matter of a couple of years . |
| 8 | Such as on pgs 37–38 where he is talking to Louis and Mike . |
| 9 | Unless the traveller has some idea of where he is starting from and the conditions he may meet along the way , he is unlikely to be able to decide upon a satisfactory route . |
| 10 | and er he saw the , he was with Trigger he says , he says keep calm , drinking calm , were in here my son , right , and er its the bit where he 's leaning on the bar and the bloke lifts up the bar and he just folds like a tonne of bricks sideways |
| 11 | I 've only read up to the bit where he 's standing near the hooker . |
| 12 | He obviously likes Jimmy Page and it 's pretty easy to tell where he 's coming from , but he 's got a good sound and it 's really fresh . |
| 13 | ‘ I can see where he 's coming from . |
| 14 | ‘ I wonder where he 's making for ? |
| 15 | ‘ I need to know where he 's travelling to . |
| 16 | speaking to him was that erm the place he where he 's recording in Scotland erm tends to have an unusual vocabulary . |
| 17 | missed where he 's going to . |
| 18 | In the following pairs of examples , ( a ) represents normal placement and ( b ) contrastive : a ) I want to know where he s travelling to ( The word ‘ to ’ , being a preposition and not a lexical word , is not stressed. ) b ) ( I do nt want to know where he s travelling from ) I want to know where he s travelling |
| 19 | In the following pairs of examples , ( a ) represents normal placement and ( b ) contrastive : a ) I want to know where he s travelling to ( The word ‘ to ’ , being a preposition and not a lexical word , is not stressed. ) b ) ( I do nt want to know where he s travelling from ) I want to know where he s travelling |
| 20 | In the autumn of 1959 he wrote to Eliot from Italy , where he was staying with his daughter , expressing grave doubts about his worth as a poet . |
| 21 | In The Ladybird New Testament the story is similarly altered to include a dream rather than a vision : One day Peter went up on the roof of the house where he was staying in Joppa to pray . |
| 22 | How did Lee think he could see where he was pointing to in the dark ? |
| 23 | The travel consultant on duty asked where he was ringing from . |
| 24 | Yeah , I think his description of where he was living in the tree house was very clear |
| 25 | He heard Paddy 's whisper from where he was kneeling in the front row and it had quite a chilling effect . |
| 26 | Then she came over to where he was kneeling by the fire and put her arms round him from behind and pressed her cheek against his . |
| 27 | David is a failed architect and Michael has been thrown out of Sandhurst where he was training for the Army . |
| 28 | No one was supposed to know where he was operating from . |
| 29 | Philip looked down at Lee where he was crouching on the ground by Caspar . |
| 30 | I 'm so stupid that I started doing cocaine to try to understand him — to get close to him and understand where he was coming from . |