Example sentences of "[pron] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'd best eat them afore they gits cold . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , please call me Julia-if you would n't mind , ’ said Julia . |
| 3 | ‘ Thoo should 'ave waited for me afore fastening 'im . |
| 4 | Never fancied thee afore , but now … ’ |
| 5 | If you are using these , keep them where they ca n't be tampered with . |
| 6 | Though Rivers gave some slight encouragement to Eliot in suggesting that even in our own society , religious changes have unforeseen and far-reaching effects parallel to those caused by the abolition of head-hunting in Melanesia , Eliot 's linking of ‘ cannibal isle ’ and that ‘ slick place ’ London goes directly against the main thrust of the book which stresses ‘ the almost immeasurable difference between Melanesian and European cultures , and the sharpness of the line which still divides them where they come in contact ’ . |
| 7 | He sat down at his desk , straightening his things that Lee had moved , putting them where they had been before , in the exact spot . |
| 8 | Not only did they enjoy , indeed relish , healthy sexual appetites , they made it obvious that they would satisfy them where and when they felt like it , on their Own terms . |
| 9 | I remember digging for what seemed like hours to lift those bulbs , so make sure you plant them where they will not need to be moved and allow ample room for their growth . |
| 10 | Work out ways of splitting the incoming crowd and directing them where you want them to go . |
| 11 | Should we help blues singers to find a wider audience , outside the coloured quarters of Southern towns , or should we leave them where they are , that the blues may thrive ? |
| 12 | Together they plot to undermine and ruin their errant spouses by hitting them where it hurts corporate types the hardest : their egos and bank balances . |
| 13 | And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together he demanded of them where Christ should be born . |
| 14 | All children should be supported in valuing their own dialects and in using them where they are appropriate to context and purpose , but they should also be able to use Standard English when it is necessary and helpful to do so in speaking as well as writing . |
| 15 | There was a council estate behind them where Bean lived . |
| 16 | It would be part of the Foundation 's role in partnership at all levels to encourage development of networks where they do not already exist , and to reinforce them where they do — for greater consolidated strength and continuous intercommunication . |
| 17 | I can tell of many schools and many teachers doing an exciting job under very difficult circumstances : a school set up in abandoned , corrugated iron railway sheds in Ghana with no partitions , hot at midday and unspeakably noisy during rainstorms , yet well equipped with a cheerful co-operative staff , an open plan school , Ghana style ; an overcrowded school in Lesotho where teachers had evolved their own brand of team-teaching , one teacher imparting information to a class of 120 , followed by groupwork where two teachers and a student supervised written work ; a school down the road from them where Class I and 2 teachers who finished teaching at lunchtime had organised afternoon sessions on remedial reading for older children ; another in Francistown , Botswana , in temporary classrooms , with walls made of hessian and children organised into ‘ family groups ’ playing reading and number games under the guidance of older children . |
| 18 | Kenneth impressed them where I had failed , and our room was upgraded to a suite as soon as he laid the lardy accent on them . |
| 19 | The Myndie Snake would find them and drip venom upon them , poisoning the water and burning them where they hid . |
| 20 | Clause 25 allows employees to challenge the terms and conditions of a collective agreement the employer applies to them where the agreement appears to contravene the principles of equal treatment . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not surprised to see them where they are . |
| 22 | In a welcome change of emphasis , a senior official of the Bank of England suggested on June lst that banks explore ways of shifting property assets into more enthusiastic hands , securitising them where possible . |
| 23 | He called together all the chief priests and scribes … and enquired of them where the Christ was to be born . |
| 24 | To take out cover , farmers should call their group secretaries and inform them where and when the sale takes place , the number of pen cards needed , together with the chosen cover period , and whether insurance is required for all animals , or just those selling above a set price . |
| 25 | Then he seized the bag of cookies , and on his way back indoors , threw them where he considered they belonged , in the trash can with the rest of the garbage . |
| 26 | Look for them where fairly large , heavy objects are resting on the soil , for example , under large stones , a garden roller or a log . |
| 27 | Local folklore has it that in prehistoric times men drove wild cattle to their deaths over Combe Scar and ate them where they fell at the foot of the crag ( cattle bones are reputed to have been found there ) . |
| 28 | Finding the optimum location is largely a matter of trial and error , but aim to place them where they can not be seen upside-down ( i.e. , with the top end facing a wall ) , or use them as wall-hangings . |
| 29 | The old drove-roads made their own contribution to the landscape in the wayside inns that grew up to cater specially for drovers in lonely stretches of country , and in the ‘ stances ’ beside them where the cattle were shut up and rested for the night . |
| 30 | I stacked the papers carefully and replaced them where I had found them . |