Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second hand had stopped where it had met the pin inserted near the 55-second mark . |
| 2 | Some linguistic abilities may not be detected , not because the child is not able to demonstrate them , but simply because the occasion did not arise where they were required . |
| 3 | While I was struggling to stop it , frost was formed where it struck my already cold hand . |
| 4 | Because of the way he was looking , his parted lips , his wondering eyes , she felt desire , a flicker of it , the first sign , the first time for months , a movement like a string being plucked where she thought her womb was . |
| 5 | ‘ Sit where you are , Bill , ’ said the blind man . |
| 6 | Tug looked sideways , towards the valley on the right , and recognized where they were . |
| 7 | When the trucks paused while negotiating a particularly tricky turn , and Rain recognized where they were and that it was a good place to be , they climbed out and took a short route out of the old town and back to the hotel . |
| 8 | But I 've just realised where we might find some of the answers we 're looking for . ’ |
| 9 | I 've just realised where it was taken . |
| 10 | What was remarkable , and commendable , was that once the tragedy had begun , quicker than anybody else in Germany , the Crown Prince realised where it would lead . |
| 11 | Rural Britain is full of retired brigadiers and industrial captains , chaps who got where they were through diplomacy , cunning and an instinct for knocking heads together when the bugle blew . |
| 12 | ‘ Neither of us , sister , got where we are today by toeing the line . ’ |
| 13 | All I could do was write a letter , and by the time I 'd written a letter and it got where it was going and a reply got back , a week or two weeks could have gone by . |
| 14 | Like how you got where you are . |
| 15 | I mean where we could dummy into the war here so the war starts in thirty nine so unless you 've got good reason to believe that consumption was n't affected until nineteen forty , we use a dummy for the whole war period once you 've edited , once you 've edited the variable you press the end key that saves the edit . |
| 16 | things , I mean where we went |
| 17 | Erm w I mean where they do n't work when somebody offers code and they do n't work , there 's not a lot you can do other than sort of make some informed guesses as to what might be going wrong . |
| 18 | Well my mother was one of the pillars of the Palfrey church and er she er oh I went , my father never used to go , but she used to go and of course I , I used to be an altar server down there when I got a bit older I did for a week or two to the erm do you know anything about an Anglo-Catholic Church I mean where they swing the incense and there is this little boy with the boat ? |
| 19 | I 've only ever seen part of it I mean where they get it rigged up and the hit man keeps coming back and he , he keeps seeing him and he 's , he 's walking round the place and |
| 20 | I mean where you buy the , the thing from you 'd think the seldom , the spares as you want them about every four months |
| 21 | You know , and I mean where he used to go to school they did n't teach them them till they were ten ! |
| 22 | And in fact , if we look at even more , I mean where I work is a Family Centre in Berinsfield erm and I interviewed erm some of the carers of young children , and most of the women I interviewed had , in fact , been subjected to marital violence by their male partners and in many ways this had been triggered off by arguments over who should take care of the children and over the woman not being in her place , so although it 's important to maybe look at the macro level , I really think we have to look at how men and women behave towards one another , particularly where child care is concerned . |
| 23 | Today , the USS Arizona and USS Utah still lay where they were sunk , as a lasting memorial to the servicemen who died on December 7 , 1941 . |
| 24 | Oppression lay on me like a dead beast , not gaunt and stiff-legged like the animals which lay where they had dropped along the desert road , but soft and smothering like something from which the breath had only just gone . |
| 25 | Dusty relics lay where they were left when the mill shut down . |
| 26 | She swore , but lay where she had fallen . |
| 27 | And I lay where I fell , fighting to hold back the tears which threatened to engulf me . |
| 28 | Then he realized where they were : the Coptic Place of the Dead . |
| 29 | When they disobeyed they were transformed into pillars of rock and placed where they could see each other but never meet . |
| 30 | Adoption agencies in Britain take the greatest trouble to see that children are placed where they will enjoy a strong family background . |