Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I just have to go to or I just have to sort of explain that when you pack a van , you do n't pack it like the advert for KitKat . |
| 2 | In 1917–18 she served on the committee on post-war reconstruction , where she frequently clashed with Beatrice Webb . |
| 3 | Mia was driven to the Drumcondra clinic , where she instantly fell in love with rough , red-haired little Tip . |
| 4 | The teenager gets older , encounters some nicer , more controlled , more kindly people than he or she ever found at home — most people behave worst in their own homes — and with any luck comes to understand , yes , there is an aspiration or so floating around out there , and , if he , she , has n't seen too many horror movies , been too beaten up in body and mind , regains a little faith in a world at least potentially redeemable . |
| 5 | Managerialist attitudes have also had an impact , with a few authorities ( particularly on the radical right ) preferring a managing director model , which downgrades corporate management and has sometimes undermined Bains-type arrangements even where they formally continue in existence . |
| 6 | The first approach involved despatching specially selected officers into ‘ alienated neighbourhoods ’ and having them operate from ‘ storefront ’ mini-police stations , where they sometimes worked in teams , helping and advising marginal sections of society , like drug addicts and delinquent children . |
| 7 | I kept them to myself , where they constantly grew in depth and where they became merely a backdrop to my private obsession : home , family , school , everything . |
| 8 | Many bookcases and sets of shelves displayed in furniture shops were never designed by a book man or anyone well acquainted with books , especially where sizes are concerned . |
| 9 | He sits as a judge in the House of Lords , where he also acts as Speaker ; he is a cabinet minister and advises on constitutional issues ; and his department , established in 1885 , is our nearest approach to a Ministry of Justice and has responsibility for many aspects of the legal system . |
| 10 | Fluent in French and German , he added Italian during a two-year working spell in Italy and returned to Milan in 1982 , where he now looks after fibres . |
| 11 | She was , however , able to describe and explain the scenario that would be repeated in most of Nicholson 's most spectacular films — where he personally falls in love with his co-star . |
| 12 | He plans to complete extensions to their £400,000 home at Denham , Bucks , where he still lives with children Matthew , 12 , and Lauren , 10 . |
| 13 | Then , as if satisfied that there was no one about , he hurried across the glade , where he almost trod on Rosalind 's letter , which was lying face-upwards on the grass . |
| 14 | The archer fish lives in mangrove swamps in South-east Asia , where it frequently searches for food near the surface of the water . |
| 15 | But there is some duplication in the figures of government revenues , because in the years covered by the table about half of the gross revenues of the republics and provinces was transferred to the federation ( where it again appears as revenue ) . |
| 16 | I mean if they really sort of tried to make a story out of it and they could n't , they contacted the council offices and everyone was on holiday or nobody 'd answer the phone or what normally happens at council offices , they 'd say ‘ Oh , well , sod this , ’ and they 'd go away and they 'd do the , you know , write it up in a really nasty way so |
| 17 | His main principle with regard to the past was that nothing once given to God or the saints could be restored to the kingdom of this world without injustice . |
| 18 | ( However we should still heed Mr Castro 's warning that nothing now happening in Europe is going to help the desperate problems of the Third World . |
| 19 | We all think that everyone else lives in fortresses , in fastnesses : behind moats , behind sheer walls studded with spikes and broken glass . |
| 20 | I think that everyone probably goes through fights with their parents during their early teens but I certainly did n't know what it was like to run away from home and to have constant dealings with the police and welfare organisations . |
| 21 | Although I partly agree with Jacqueline Prelimo that photographs represent an attempt to possess the moment by turning it into something tangible ( Letters NI 185 ) , I have some reservations . |
| 22 | Although I still suffer from headaches , it takes a lot more physical and mental stress before it manifests . |
| 23 | Now , on erm the er insurance er the , the pensions and life side then that 's my particular area , and obviously I 'm based in Birmingham for that , although I actually live in Derby . |
| 24 | He used some such expression in the text of an unpublished essay that I later found at Harvard . |
| 25 | I had just winched in the staysail 's port sheet when the explosion sounded , or something so like an explosion that I instinctively cowered by Wavebreaker 's rail as my mind whipped back to the crash of practice shells ripping through the sleet in Norway . |
| 26 | This is my do it yourself manual , that I just learned by trial and error . |
| 27 | you know I , I think , I think usually what I say about questionnaires is towards the business of , you know , kind of writing them in people 's own words that , that sort of fit in with ordinary language okay putting them in a sensible order advising people to do scale type things with five or seven points or something which you 've got a lot of already so a lot of the comments that I normally make on people 's questionnaires er you can take as read as it were erm so I think erm you know just really one or two minor things about layout like , you know , you know sort of space and , and moving things around a wee bit , it might make them easier to read but again as I say that 's a you know relatively minor erm problem . |
| 28 | Nor that I thereby hope for immortality : |
| 29 | I mused on Toby 's story as I walked towards the clubhouse and so intent was I on my thoughts that I nearly knocked over Sally Drayton as I passed the PGA hut . |
| 30 | The bolt was on the door and the top was off the bottle of Old Bedwetter that I generally reserve for moments such as these . |