Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pron] [verb] [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 | Perhaps you 're exhausted where you 've had a gear problem . |
| 3 | ‘ Is n't that where you wanted to go today ? ’ |
| 4 | Is that where you want to go ? ’ |
| 5 | This was developed very highly in the Hollywood movies of the Thirties where they attempted to put ‘ colour ’ into the pictures in terms of light and shade . |
| 6 | If they just make it totally private where everybody has to pay |
| 7 | With a startled squawk a rook flew from one tree to another where it perched complaining loudly . |
| 8 | Was this where he had trained as a young man ? |
| 9 | ‘ Is this where he intends to make his land stand then ? ’ |
| 10 | He escaped in his pyjamas , and the plaster of Paris on his leg was sopping wet where he had fallen in a ditch , but he was in good spirits . |
| 11 | Moreover , hospital early discharge schemes have been slow to develop , yet are immensely popular where they have taken root . |
| 12 | It was much lighter than he had expected , largely because of a rear door , now open , which led to a glass extension giving a view of the headland . |
| 13 | The NHS did need a kick up the backside , and a lot of us were ( and still are ) far more prepared than you realise to promote any scheme that looks halfway decent . |
| 14 | If we 're to win Fairclough must mark flash well and Newsome and possibly Pemberton play out of their skins — Battyburn do n't just have flash although it does appear that way at times . |
| 15 | Life in the office was tense , but the work was far more interesting than she had imagined it would be . |
| 16 | Now that she saw Rupert again he was rather less interesting than she had remembered — a little older , slightly inhibited in his conversation , and unresponsive to her semi-flirtatious looks and remarks in a way that puzzled her . |
| 17 | This Sara Monroe was much prettier than he had expected , judging from the numerous snaps and photographs of her at all stages of her development from baby to schoolgirl to young woman , which were strewn about Moorlake House . |
| 18 | His shoulders are broader than he had supposed , he notices as he walks away from himself ; his bottom sticks out less . |
| 19 | She had stopped being so afraid once she had heard him talking to her mother . |
| 20 | People need to account for their time for many different reasons and so your final template may look quite different once you have tailored it to your needs . |
| 21 | They had found him quicker than he 'd anticipated , sniffing him out through the darkened streets . |
| 22 | The head of the figure at the extreme left of the Demoiselles is , like that of her companions in the centre of the picture , expressionless and impassive but now has about it a mask-like quality that recalls a wide variety of African tribal masks in which the component parts of the head and face have about them exactly the same quality of definition , although here the similarities may possibly be simply affinities rather than derivations ; the heads of many of the paintings of late 1906 had also been severe and mask-like although they tend to resemble sculptures in stone , whereas the head of the demoiselle in question looks more wooden in both colour and texture . |
| 23 | He was taller than she remembered , more powerfully built , the angles of his face even harder and more menacing than she had recalled coming up in the lift . |
| 24 | Now they 're not the easiest things to speak into because the noise volume of the traffic is quite horrendous so you have to shout . |
| 25 | Nor should we ignore the fact that in the not-too-distant future eastern Europe and Russia will be able to realise their massive agricultural potantial once they have become fully harnessed to a market economy . |
| 26 | The ‘ personal observation ’ of Goody and Watt is contrary to this so they intend to pursue ‘ the traditional dichotomy between literate and non-literate societies ’ ( 1968 , p. 28 ) in order to see if any genuine illumination can be found in it . |
| 27 | And the big thing that happens is you you suddenly in the middle of differentiating start integrating or in the middle of an integrating start differentiating or you start doing taking you 've had enough of this so you start doing little short cuts like erm differentiating sine three X just as if it was sine X |
| 28 | But , remember these are wet so you have to leave them out , flat to dry . |
| 29 | But the truth is that Uncle Buck , the film , has been rendered totally superfluous once you 've seen the trailer you have seen the film . |
| 30 | So I used to go with him , and incidently he was a , he was very good on classical music , although we never went into this although I 'd got very close to him but I 'm sure he were brought up in an orphanage you know , and never talked about this but I 'm sure he was . |