Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun] where it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to dust the grit off my forearm where it adhered to the sweat . |
| 2 | And as the lights came up , she 'd sit down again and let the thing creep back up through her bones where it belonged . |
| 3 | I remember once when she was climbing into bed in her Waaf-issue blue striped pyjamas , a cheeky little field mouse popped up from between her sheets where it had evidently been nesting , and streaked across the hut to disappear down a convenient crack in the wooden wall . |
| 4 | I felt the side of my head where it had hit the bus shelter ; a bruise was forming and my eye felt sore . |
| 5 | She saw herself , her head a foam of lacy white like the shining tumbleweed caught in the evening light as it floats through the air , handed on to the bar stool , her little feet — her good point — showing beneath the hem of her skirt where it rode up as she adjusted herself . |
| 6 | Huy felt he could get drunk on the smell of Taheb , sinking his lips into the base of her neck where it joined the shoulder . |
| 7 | Richard touched his finger reflexively to a light dressing on the left side of his neck where it met the collarbone . |
| 8 | Her eyes had become focused on the firm line of his lips , and a scalding message raced into her belly where it clenched in a strange , anticipatory tingle . |
| 9 | Water dripped from his elbow where it bent , holding the phone up to his ear . |
| 10 | A bib had been tied around Bissell 's neck to collect the raw , liquid plaster which oozed from his mouth where it congealed and hardened . |
| 11 | There were no bandages large enough in the wheelbarrow to make a cold compress , so I poured water on my sock where it touched the inflammation , but the water filled my boot and left the sock barely damp . |
| 12 | There was a hangnail at the side of my thumb and now I took it between my teeth and tore it off so that the blood ran , leaving a scarlet spotting on my dress where it bloused out above my waist . |
| 13 | He raised his hand and placed it on her arm where it had briefly touched before . |
| 14 | He dropped the letter on to his desk where it fluttered for a moment , an innocent reminder of the arrangement made in that grey stone house in Ghent . |
| 15 | Another landed on his cheek where it sizzled and went out . |