Example sentences of "[subord] the [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then Jess said : ‘ Come in … come in , afore the weather does thee an injury ! ’ smiling at him . |
| 2 | ‘ Do you think our Matthew 'll be home afore the babby comes ? ’ |
| 3 | It can be fun seeing the tables turned , but it is at best a mixed experience . |
| 4 | Crossing into Dutch Timor next day , they moved over the dry coral rocks and through occasional dells of trees around clear springs before reaching a Roman Catholic mission church where the priests told them of Sparrow Force 's defeat . |
| 5 | On 14 December 1991 , the south-southeast-trending fracture widened ( maximum extension by April 1992 , 1.5m ) , lava was erupted close to the summit , and by 15 December activity had moved down to a site 2,400m a.s.l. where the fracture intersects the western cliff wall of the Valle del Bove . |
| 6 | My house and hedge and where the batsmen strode . |
| 7 | For example , there are dual currency bonds , where the coupon payments are in one currency and the redemption proceeds are in another ; currency change bonds , where coupons are first paid in one currency and then in another ; deferred coupon bonds , where there is a delay in the payment of the first coupon ; multiple coupon bonds , where the coupon payments change over the life of the bond ( although in a predetermined manner ) , fixed-then-floating bonds , where the coupons change from being fixed rate to floating rate ; floating-then-zero bonds , where the bonds change from being floating-rate coupon bonds to zero-coupon bonds ; and missing coupon bonds , where a coupon payment is missed whenever a dividend payment on the issuing corporation 's shares are missed . |
| 8 | The Palace of Congresses , where the powermasters sat . |
| 9 | Where the curl 'd Vine extends her willing Arms : |
| 10 | Unbroken , that is , except for a tiny barn , a grey stone speck just visible on the last airy swell hundreds of feet up where the hillside joined the moorland above . |
| 11 | No security dealer may deal in securities where it acted as an issuing house or in securities issued by itself , or in securities issued by another company where the trader holds an equity interest in excess of 10 per cent . |
| 12 | Journalists whose by-lines are on defamatory stories can exculpate themselves by proving that the defamation was added to their copy without their consent ( a common occurrence where the sting emanates from clumsy sub-editing ) . |
| 13 | Following an agreement between the Duke of Buccleuch and the Caledonian Railway a branch line was constructed from Slateford , on the main Carstairs–Edinburgh ( Lothian Road ) line , through generally open countryside , to West Granton where the Duke owned the Harbour . |
| 14 | Only one in 500 engineers in the UK is a woman and progress is much slower than in the US where the percentage has grown from 0–2 in the 1960s , when the Civil Rights movement stirred , to 10 per cent and is growing apace . |
| 15 | ‘ There is a ford around the next great bend of the river , at the Yair or Yarrow , where the Berwickers net the salmon . |
| 16 | Where the peasantry remained ‘ pre-commercial , ’ as in large parts of Russia and among the emancipated slaves of the Americas who returned to subsistence peasant agriculture , the estate retained this advantage , but without the physical compulsions of serfdom or slavery it now found it more difficult to obtain labour , unless the former slaves or serfs were landless or so short of land as to be obliged to become hired labourers — and unless there was no more attractive labour for them to take . |
| 17 | Even where the signers had deaf parents there was still a very strong influence of English on the syntax of the signing . |
| 18 | For example , what are the support needs of a step-family where the step-mother has recently given up work , had a new baby , where there are two sets of step-children in pre-puberty and puberty who have just changed house and schools , where one set of children have a good relationship with the non-custodial parent and the others do not ? |
| 19 | Dogs and sheep have died after drinking near blooms , where the toxins tend to concentrate . |
| 20 | Annuities generally issued from lay land , and a technical distinction was evidently maintained at Water Stratford , Bucks. , where the abbot had a pension of 6s. 8d. as well as an annuity of 4s . |
| 21 | and brisk ink-daubs , where the abbot sat … |
| 22 | The only variation is in the project for elderly people , where the questions have been changed slightly to make them , more appropriate to their needs and expectations . |
| 23 | To tell the truth I 'm not quite sure where the story came from . |
| 24 | Writing is made to seem a small betrayal , as it may have been in the life of Prentice 's Uncle Rory , who makes a prize-winning living as the author of travel books about ‘ unlikely destinations ’ and who is absent from the grandmother 's funeral where the story begins ( with a predictable bang ) . |
| 25 | In the process area , there have been major developments in catalysts for polypropylene manufacture and in the technology for making chlorine and also ammonia — both very mature products indeed on the face of it but where the story has by no means ended , even after a century . |
| 26 | The Jew had left Judaea , where the capital has a name difficult to pronounce ( they call it Ierusalem ) and had come down to the sea . |
| 27 | He took us to the Þingvellir National park where the clouds parted and the sun shone on square kilometres of snow that was so clean and pure it made me weep for all the time we had lost on the trip , and for the pleasure of being where I wanted to be . |
| 28 | But now I was up in the air , and what with the clouds , I lost all my orientation Where the clouds parted , I could see the whole tube , land all around me , and it seemed to go up like a tower , so the town and the factory belt and the parks were hanging from the walls over my head , they were all going to crash down on me , and the city on top of them . |
| 29 | The following year there was a visit to the Edison works at West Orange , where the delegates saw prerecorded cylinders made by an experimental moulding process . |
| 30 | Where the consultants went |