Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dey hav fe get it right or dey get verbal reaction . |
| 2 | A place that people come up and give you double your washing powder , where , when you wear a certain pair of shoes , your sports performance will reach the dizzy heights of your professional heroes , where everyone has perfect teeth . |
| 3 | I saw a Mummy examined that had been embalmed for 2,000 years ; the embalmer had taken out all the Viscera of the head , Thorax and Abdomen and cut all the flesh off the bones , and the cavities of the Thorax & Abdomen were filled up with Tar , Pitch & c and the form of the leg , Thigh & c were altogether made up of linen Rags dipp 'd in Tar , Pitch , & c so that I have an Opinion that they were allow 'd to carry the dead Body home by pretending to embalm it to preserve the Flesh & c , but you see they either buried or burnt the Flesh : this art always ‘ till lately appeared to me ridiculous as I know how soon putrefaction took place after Death ; since that time I have often thought it would be pleasing if we could fall upon a method of preserving dead Bodies & I thought that mankind in general would wish to have the Bodies of their Friends & c Preserved . |
| 4 | Julia , Ruth & I did this between us , but none of us had had any experience running the projectors , sound or lighting equipment beforehand . |
| 5 | Seeing I played two rounds of golf yesterday … ’ |
| 6 | They invited me to punk parties as noisy as tractor factories , where I swigged flat cans of beer , already shaken with a twist of cigarette butt . |
| 7 | We cascaded down the stairs as the dog decided he could take going downstairs in his stride — and seethed across the station into the sunshine of the great outdoors ; where I observed two large policemen surrounding my estate car , notebooks in hand — and under the obvious impression that they were abut to make an easy collar . |
| 8 | Straight at me where I kneel unbalanced , precariously lodged between joist and board . |
| 9 | Where I keep all my club things at the end there where the medicine thing is . |
| 10 | ‘ When I got there Mr Kordell was with Herbert Chapman and we went into a Lyons tea shop , where I signed amateur for Arsenal . |
| 11 | After sailing all day , I reached a small island , where I slept that night . |
| 12 | I know how good you were because I was at that stage in maths where I felt rudderless and becalmed , drifting helplessly as it were , as my peer group — the rest of the fleet — sailed serenely on towards the horizon . |
| 13 | Presumably it 's also a lot to do with isolation , a lot to do with the fact that there was no one to talk to about the sexual experiences you were having and the only surrounding attitude was one of , ‘ This is something which should n't happen ’ , whereas the situation when I had my first sexual experience was one where I knew other people who were gay whom I could talk to . |
| 14 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 15 | ‘ I was taken to Arrowe Park Hospital where I spent four hours having scans and the doctors said he seemed to be OK . |
| 16 | ‘ Not in Europe , Jane , where I spent ten long years looking for an ideal . |
| 17 | More attractive were the hillier southern regions of Lewis and Harris where I spent most of my spare time rambling and climbing . |
| 18 | But from my point of view what mattered most was that it bordered Abyssinia , where I hoped one day to be posted . |
| 19 | I went down to the execution yard where I saw three corpses . |
| 20 | The prize for winning ‘ New Faces ’ was a trip to Las Vegas and a three-week cabaret stint at the M.G.M. Grand , where I died four times nightly during each 45-minute spot . |
| 21 | The view from this room where I write these last pages is small , but it will serve as an epitome of the gentle unravished English landscape . |
| 22 | STOP THINNING YOUR SHOTS STEVE RICHARDSON IMPROVE YOUR COURSE TACTICS PAUL BROADHURST PITCH IT CLOSE SEVE WHERE I WENT WRONG |
| 23 | Over and over the events of the day I go , vainly searching for where I went wrong … |
| 24 | Perhaps you can guess exactly where I fell that night . |
| 25 | I then went down into the cockpit , where I counted eleven of our best men lying dead . |
| 26 | Prague was the last stadium where I wore conventional running shorts . |
| 27 | One hot after noon I was cycling on a lonely road to a country house where I had two pupils when I heard a plane buzzing rather low over my head . |
| 28 | When I got into Holloway they have them little forms and they 've got pictures of a body with all arrows and everything , and where I had any bruises the doctor put these marks . |
| 29 | When discussing a passage in Dorothy 's German journal , where she states that she ‘ carried Kubla to a fountain in the neighbouring market-place , where I drank some excellent water ’ , one editor allowed himself to speculate upon the existence of a missing manuscript copy of Kubla Khan . |
| 30 | She opened her eyes , smiled down where I stood waist-deep in water still — the smile itself a quick gasp on evening air — then she was upright , running along the jetty to where Edward waited with the towels . |