Example sentences of "[noun] where [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he 's one of them lads where she 'll never have owt , cos he do n't do , he wo n't bloody work will he ? |
| 2 | There was the frightening sensation of being sucked into an invisible vortex , some dark cavern of the senses where she could no longer stand back and resist , where she could only feel … |
| 3 | But everyone says it would be a mistake to dismiss Mrs Shephard as ‘ a mumsy suburban type ’ , even though she shows some housewifey traits such as walking from Westminster to a West End restaurant in a pair of sensible shoes where she will then change into high heels carried in a plastic bag . |
| 4 | I 'm sorry to see that although we 've got a large increase in budget , which is of course always very welcome , that we have n't perhaps addressed improving the quality er as much as we might have done , although we 've got a lot more home help hours that may be classed as an improvement , but er there are many other areas where we could perhaps encourage improvement in community care er with a bit of thought . |
| 5 | This ruling was reviewed , as a point of law , by the Queen 's Bench of the High Court , which decided that a man who publishes a book in circumstances where he must reasonably know that it is obscene commits an offence , even if his motive is pure . |
| 6 | Mr Orange warned that the costs involved in addressing environmental pressures on the worldwide oil industry were rising to a point where they would soon equal revenues . |
| 7 | And some people that 's where you 'll probably get mugged anyway , if you 're safe from well from one road cutting through the flats where all the empty flats are that is the point where they 'd probably get mugged and assaulted and raped and God knows what . |
| 8 | He was teasing her with this leisurely foreplay , stoking the fires inside her until they reached the point where they could no longer be contained . |
| 9 | But probably at the stage where somebody is spending two or three hours a day erm processing invoices , trying to get cash in , erm looking at the stock control , then that 's the point where they could very well consider a small computer now . |
| 10 | But they have n't got it quantified to such a point where they can actually distinguish a tonsillectomy which might have a lot of procedures but actually takes about half a minute with er other things that are , you know , much much more complicated and the cost of tonsillectomies is unreasonably high compared with erm , you know , with |
| 11 | This is the ‘ I can not ’ , the ‘ I 've given up ’ state with absence of feelings , energy , vitality , enthusiasm , sometimes to the point where we may never try again . |
| 12 | Putting on a Show The Windows aficionado will be well pleased with the look and feel of Presentations 2.0 — it maintains that 3D kind of look that Windows 3.1 is so good at , to the point where you might just be persuaded that you 're actually running a Windows application full screen . |
| 13 | Imagine then , how you would feel if your income had shrunk each year to the point where you could now buy little more than half what you could in 1970 . |
| 14 | But it will happen … not quite yet but at the point where he will no longer hinder me with the pretence that he would have me stay . |
| 15 | At some stage , demand in a particular country grows to the point where it can more profitably be exploited by trade-replacing investments . |
| 16 | There is a famine of hearing the word of the Lord in the land , but few places where we can confidently expect to hear it . |
| 17 | It had been a heady day when she noticed the photograph no longer in a place of honour , on the chest of drawers , but moved to a shelf where it could hardly be seen , and then face down , and then in the bottom of a drawer . |
| 18 | But having said that I ca n't see a job where you can just kind of swan in and you know and think about a million different things in one day or whatever . |
| 19 | Or fight from a place where they can only reach you one at a time , like a doorway or narrow staircase . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's only one place where we can ever be safe , and that 's where we belong , ’ he said . |
| 21 | In another letter he suggested constructing the ‘ Little End Room ’ in a spare bedroom at Headington , ‘ a place where we can always meet on the common ground of the past and ipso facto a museum of the Leeborough which we want to preserve ’ . |
| 22 | Provided that the proprietor shall not be entitled to the protection of this subsection unless , at the time when the property in question was brought to the hotel , a copy of the notice set out in the schedule to this Act printed in plain type was conspicuously displayed in a place where it could conveniently be read by his guests at or near the reception office or desk or , where there is no reception office or desk , at or near the main entrance to the hotel . |
| 23 | But not , for the time being , very far , because two miles below Argelés , on the western slopes of the valley , is the little place where I would always choose to stay when coming to Bigorre : the village of Saint-Savin . |
| 24 | It was me who cut her ropes and killed the men aboard her , and it 's me who has sailed her to a place where you 'll never find her . |
| 25 | If your arrangement is going to be in a place where you will only see the front , make sure you put the shortest flowers in the front and the tallest at the back . |
| 26 | The trouble with Oxford , as Bernard Shaw has written , is that it is the only place where you can both have your cake and eat it . |
| 27 | Does n't it matter to you that in a place where you can now hear birdsong there 'll be pop music blaring and loudspeakered announcements from morning to night ? |
| 28 | It 's the sort of place where you can hardly sneeze without your neighbour and their neighbours , and the people in the next village , feeling the breeze . |
| 29 | The kind of place where you can quite easily forget the day of the week — unless you want to take in the Friday disco — let alone the time of day . |
| 30 | Moses is actually at Sinai ( Horeb ) , the very place where he will later receive the law , when God 's call comes . |