Example sentences of "[adj] where it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Climbing up to the right and beyond Cow Dub , I followed the beck , dry where it had drained away through the limestone but flowing where the bands of sandstone outcropped , until on the open fell the limestone gave way to glacial moraine and the beck gurgled noisily back down towards Cow Dub . |
| 2 | To date , LanOptics has used distributors such as Datarange Communications Ltd , but following the establishment of the UK company , it is now to sell direct where it feels this is more strategic . |
| 3 | His shaggy , walrus moustache was deeper coloured , streaky , with irony grey still in it and it was brown and sodden where it dipped into his own , special , pint-size mug which had the word ‘ Father ’ executed on it in rosebuds . |
| 4 | The muted colours of Pavlos 's objects derives from the relation of the many cut edges to the printed colours of the paper , which are only visible where it has been spread open . |
| 5 | Everyone had seen the dead dog on the path , bloated and grey and bald where it lay in the mud , and the heaps of excrement , all teeming with the same flies that were sharing their food : and the association flooded their throats like vomit . |
| 6 | It 's remarkable where it does go to really . |
| 7 | The snow made horizontal lines of white where it had lodged between the timbers . |
| 8 | Although at this time of year , before the monsoon , the water is at its lowest , it was nevertheless chest-deep in places and fast-flowing — turquoise and white where it swirled around boulders near the edge , dark green in the broad sweep of the central canal . |
| 9 | I 'm not sure where it 's gone today , but for the energetic a new book of Oxfordshire rambles has just arrived in the bookshop . |
| 10 | The path becomes very rough where it leaves the burn and climbs steeply out of the glen . |
| 11 | It can be effective where it does not kill the patient . |
| 12 | Total exclusion of liability for failure to perform a contract at all is unlikely to be reasonable where it occurs because of acts or omissions within the control of the party in default , which are caused by negligence , incompetence or inadvertence but not wilful default ( " inadvertent default " ) . |
| 13 | I 've changed your body , and I tried to rewire a few of your neurons , but I 've left you alone where it counts . ’ |
| 14 | He could see it steaming where it coated the rim and the long-handled wooden spoon . |
| 15 | There is a lot of blood ; it looks red where it seeps into the white sheets , black where it quietly pools . |
| 16 | The beck runs from fields via springs , down London Street , hides under the road , emerges again round Bridge Street flats , underground again until it appears in the churchyard , then under the road and into West Green where it runs beside an avenue of stately chestnut trees , out of Pocklington and on to the river Derwent . |
| 17 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 18 | The female will leave her own food away from the young where it does n't contaminate the nest . |
| 19 | Because the Isle of Dogs is really a peninsula , it gets congested where it joins the land . |