Example sentences of "[conj] [pos pn] [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ordinary experience seems to indicate that brain position determines experience content : where my head is ( in space and in time ) is the most important determinant of the content of my consciousness . |
| 2 | He finishes at the front and brings the machine round to the back lawn where my sister is having her picnic . |
| 3 | He then said that he now had confirmation from the police and that I qualified for a transfer and would receive an offer for Govan ( where my dad is ) within a week . |
| 4 | The book has taught me where my imagery was wrong . |
| 5 | Where My Word is unspoken . |
| 6 | ‘ Just do yourself a favour and tell me now where my cousin is . ’ |
| 7 | There 's the excitement of birthday cards in a new house , and a new school where my classroom is again a hut with a wood stove . |
| 8 | ‘ My name , where my office is , my toughest cases . |
| 9 | Dana and I slept together in the double bed in my bedroom , next to my parents ’ room , where my mother was sleeping with Aunt Lyallie . |
| 10 | I rushed home , where my mother was alone , but she knew already . |
| 11 | The short days were half over by the time I ventured from the hut ( where my motorbike was also preserved . |
| 12 | ‘ I really love my job , ’ he says , ‘ and that has meant giving up the security of local government to seek a wider role , putting my money and reputation where my mouth is . |
| 13 | But I do intend to do it , and if it comes off I suppose I should put my money where my mouth is and offer up my effort for your appraisal . |
| 14 | Still , at least I put my bottle where my mouth is , not like those whingeing sods at ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 15 | I 'm prepared to put my money where my mouth is . ’ |
| 16 | But when Geoff Hamilton handed me a chunk of Barnsdale to turn into a well-planted garden , I had to put my money where my mouth was . |
| 17 | We s tend to move the sentences around more and they lines sort of you know , Do you know where my shovel is , where my shovel is and erm , Who 's the day , asking how are you . |
| 18 | The day I went up to university I left you all , country gentry all … country where my father was stifling . |
| 19 | After tea — more washing up with Dad at the helm and little time was left before the whole family were off to Evensong at St. Martin 's where my father was a sidesman for a number of years . |
| 20 | And grandfather caught a bus up to Ipswich market where my father was , and they drove home . |
| 21 | She came from a family that lived on North Stainmore , where my father was raised , and she had striking looks . |
| 22 | As soon as I got out of the house , I was told by our neighbours where my father was hiding , but I realized that if I went to speak to him , some SS soldier might follow me and arrest him . |
| 23 | Where my father was concer would be concerned , he he was in farming and , when the war come on , he brought the evacuees out of Belfast . |
| 24 | Boljesic 's solicitor , Donald Gordon , told Bow Street magistrates : ‘ I 'm afraid I really have no idea where my client is . |
| 25 | It is as though I have left the dull class rooms of the world and the discordant sound of the trampling feet and I have reached a place far from men where my mind is moved by universal rhythms . |
| 26 | I was n't sure whether a distant haziness was dark vegetation or my vision being hazy . |
| 27 | Either I work on the big glass , he wrote , or my life is not worth living . |
| 28 | or I was frightened , or my wife was pregnant , |
| 29 | The people could n't have been working well enough or my plan was too optimistic . |
| 30 | Or perhaps , like Hope , he found an inexplicable access of joy : ‘ I must be alone , ’ he wrote , ‘ if either my imagination or my heart are to be enriched . ’ |