Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [be] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too late in the day because all the hotels are full and I end up tramping round in the dark , lugging my pack and money ( cash , a great wad of hard currency ) , nervous of the hatchet-faced youths who watch me meandering round , concentrating so intently on making it look as though I know exactly where I 'm heading that I soon have no idea where I am on the mapless streets of Algiers . |
| 2 | Every other time I 've been in somebody 's flat like this I 've known where I am by the books . ’ |
| 3 | I stayed right where I was on the floor telling myself I 'd be fine in just a few minutes . |
| 4 | That was very early on in my filming if anyone had asked me I would have said ‘ I 'm always on the move , you know I never sit down in a lesson , and I do n't sit down but where I was on the move was in a very limited space so just having the camera at the back on that table , just having it still showed me so much about what was going on in the room and how you use the time … |
| 5 | Cunning — she could find out where I was from the town code . |
| 6 | The thing is , if they always give you and you , your , nine times out of ten what they do is like , is either , they either put a can over there or a beer or something , they put it over the end of the , the weapon pull the trigger and that , even with a flash that can go like that , and then they show you one with the , the erm flashes right which have more powerful than the and they 've actually got same again same charge as a life grenade in , but it just plain cardboard so , obviously no trap , but if you lay on them ooh er , you get or something you do n't throw what they do now is they put one they light one , put the helmet over the top of it and make it lit , it runs like buggery and it 'll go a hundred , a hundred and fifty foot up in the air and inside it looks like its been and where its been in the thing it 'll be like er , six seventy foot off the ground , I mean I laid on one once and I , landed about two foot too my left so I 've rolled over , rolled , rolled , and rolled , as I 've rolled I 've rolled over on my back and I 've had all loads of over , like the , I had a roll there its like the er |
| 7 | ‘ If it was necessary to come to a decision on this aspect , I would have to say that , in my judgment , to go from the grandmother 's house where she is at the moment and leaving the job she has in Birkenhead with the Social Services Department , to Canada with no work and no money and living on charity and food banks , would be an intolerable situation for the child . |
| 8 | I 'll have her brought down here to Florence as soon as she can be moved but we 'll have to leave her where she is for the moment — in fact , put me through to Pontino again now , will you ? |
| 9 | Emily is in her first year at Perin 's School where she is in the netball team , and also plays flute and piano . |
| 10 | She then went onto Yale Law School where she was on the board of the law review and met her husband . |
| 11 | Mr Loveitt ignored Jess who remained where she was by the wall . |
| 12 | The moral to be drawn from this sad episode is : ‘ Do n't put your money into any business you can not understand , and where you are at the mercy of the advice given by others , however trustworthy . ’ |
| 13 | New identikit cities where it will not much matter where you are in the world . |
| 14 | 1 State exactly where you were at the time ( if in a motor vehicle please give number ) . |
| 15 | Secondly what I 'd like , want both groups to do is to think how you would describe that person 's performance in an informal situation when you 're down the met , down the pub with your mates , or you 're in the room , speaking to that person . |
| 16 | Well er , she 's at home , or she 's in the erm R E I |
| 17 | The leader or high priest(ess) is chosen for the quality of psychic power exhibited , and how open he or she is to the life-force . |
| 18 | As long as an MP declares he or she is on the take these payments somehow are deemed acceptable . |
| 19 | ‘ And how do you check that the guest will be able to talk once he or she is on the show ? |
| 20 | Do you stay with the baby at all times when he or she is in the bath ? |
| 21 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
| 22 | So unaccustomed may he or she be to the affection that you offer . |
| 23 | She tried to look past him , but it was almost impossible to see what or who was in the room beyond . |
| 24 | The Government wish to discuss neither where we are on the economy nor what we can do about it . |
| 25 | This consolidates our marketing network in the Puget Sound area , where we are among the market leaders . |
| 26 | What were the advantages of placing the British Aerospace factories where they are on the map ? |
| 27 | And on the landward side of all the trenches ( except those between the Solomons and the New Hebrides , where they are on the seaward side ) are the island chains — Japan to New Zealand — whose birth is in whole or in part a consequence of all that colliding and jostling beneath the blue horizons . |
| 28 | Kangaroo rats and spring-hares use their holes , as the tortoise does , to shelter from the heat ; hyaenas and wolves as nurseries ; badgers and armadillos as dormitories in which to slumber during the day after foraging at night ; and mice and rabbits as sanctuaries where they are beyond the reach of most of their enemies . |
| 29 | Do not put fluffy rugs in front of open fires , where they are in the direct line of sparks . |
| 30 | The top outside corner of every working page is labelled to remind instructors and other readers of exactly where they are in the course as they work through it . |