Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh adv] [pron] [vb mod] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was a child there was a damp place in the long meadow where there used to be a lovely yellow flower we call butterballs , and children would bring them for the teacher . |
| 2 | in the place where they used to be . |
| 3 | It was n't really her , just a wax effigy , a place where she used to be . |
| 4 | Her face tilts to look up into the sky where there ought to be stars . |
| 5 | It , it was a two bedroom old cottage it was , very , very nice with a big garden and all I had was erm one room downstairs and like er a kitchen , well er where the sink and that was it was more like a big room where the kitchen was and the two bedrooms upstairs , but only a door on one bedroom , you went up the stairs into a big open room you know where the bannisters all round you know what I mean , no door on it and just , another door , a bedroom door , that 's all but I loved it you know it was a nice erm , not bad , but of course it was condemned it got so old and then they pulled it down and they built another house on it right next to where erm that shooting took pla you know they was having that shooting night just down that lane where I used to be |