Example sentences of "where [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Yeah , there they are , those houses there , you know where them new shops are ? |
2 | Did n't there used to be a cottage on that roadside where them big tanks is , did n't there used to be some cottages . |
3 | Sometimes my own phone rings , and the voice that answers it is here inside the room , emerging from somewhere about the point where my two shirtsleeves meet . |
4 | I planted the polystyrene marker , scattered some flake maize , sweetcorn and broken lobs around it , then headed back to shore where my two rods were at the ready for casting out . |
5 | The mental hospital where my great-uncle Fred spent the last 30 years of his life was one of a chain built around the fringes of London in the second half of the nineteenth century . |
6 | If I felt like I could write enough songs for a record that were good , I would , but it 's not where my real talent is . |
7 | That 's where my first house was , where they are now . |
8 | Where my stinky stuff ? |
9 | He said happily , anxious to make some return , ‘ If you like I 'll show you where my secret hiding place is . |
10 | This matter has caused me great concern and problems early in the Parliament , but I hope in the next 24 hours to show where my true attitudes lie . |
11 | In the remarks that follow I offer some answers to these questions , make some scattered observations about how these answers relate to concerns about the environment , and indicate where my own sympathies lie . |
12 | This is a subject to which I shall return , but for the moment I prefer to confine myself to the typical picture and to show where my own circumstances coincided with it or diverged from it . |
13 | But mostly I imagined you asleep , left utterly to yourself in a situation where my own absence from your life did not matter : |
14 | Unless I could find the place where my would-be killer had brought me out , and get back in . |
15 | That 's where my initial thoughts would lie . |
16 | ‘ I do n't know where my next penny is coming from , I really do n't , ’ she would breathe in her flat , light voice , as she sat hunched on the river bank , too hapless for despair , while our children played together among the drifting garbage at the water 's edge . |
17 | Looking at the menu on the wall I realised how hungry I was , yet I had no means of buying anything to eat ; I had no money and so had no idea of where my next meal would be coming from . |
18 | ‘ I like to know where my next meal is coming from , and that means I do n't have time to sit around contemplating nature . ’ |
19 | This is where my acting career began — I developed the most spectacular cramps , flailing about in the water , gasping , coughing and protesting , ‘ Do n't worry , Pop , just give me a moment and I 'll be fine … cough ! ’ |
20 | Over the course of time , it was clear that that was where its economic interests lay . |
21 | Whereas , in a crystal we may choose the axes of symmetry , in an amorphous polymer there is by definition no symmetry and all we know about the atom in a chain is where its topological nearest neighbours are but not where its spatial neighbours are , except that they lie within a " van der Waals radius ' of the chosen atom . |
22 | I detest Alvaro Delgado-Gal , who advocates the return of the painting to France , believing that ‘ the glorious dead should be left in the graveyard where they chose to rest ’ ; Juan Pedro Aparicio , who suggests carrying ‘ Guernica ’ in procession all around Spain in a high speed train ; the old anarchist Carlos Semprón Maura , who protests at the Reina Sofía 's injection of morphine into ‘ Guernica ’ to prolong its deep coma ; Joan Barril , for whom the dilemma posed by moving ‘ Guernica ’ from the shrine of the Buen Retiro to an apartment with freezer in the ‘ Sofidou ’ could be resolved simply by sending it to Sarajevo , Bangkok or Lima , places where its political message would be more relevant . |
23 | This presumed death is the only unequivocal event in the whole work , however , and there are moments where its meditative air threatens to become bafflingly introspective . |
24 | The minimum of the gradient of the Legendre approximation is where its second derivative vanishes . |
25 | Compared with Auspex Systems Inc , from where its technical people came , it says preliminary LADDIS benchmarks indicates a response time of 7ms versus 21ms and a throughput with two Ethernets of 415 input-outputs per second versus 466 , at a price of $37,000 versus $200,000 . |
26 | When the star reaches a point where its total surface area equals that of a sphere of radius 2 GM/c2 , it disappears and becomes a black hole . |
27 | Israel proceeded to walk directly into the dybbuk 's slavering jaws , down to where its horrible heart was . |
28 | Surplus could be increased further if the monopoly firm was required to produce where its marginal cost was equal to price . |
29 | Later this year the DTI will be issuing a consultative document on its proposals for implementing the Third Life Insurance Directive , which is due to come into operation by mid-1994 and which will enable an insurer to offer insurance anywhere in the Community on the basis of a single authorisation in the state where its head office is situated . |
30 | The river Trent has always flooded , and nowhere more so than on the levels between where its own waters and those of the Yorkshire Aire flow out into the Humber . |