Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I took myself off to my billet , feeling bloody frustrated and edgy , might I add , and thence to bed , where I thought about it . |
| 2 | Where I differ from him is on the nature of the collection as a whole , which to me seems a collection of poems differing in method and indeed quality , written over a period of years , and having two distinct sequences , to the Friend and to the ‘ Dark Lady ’ . |
| 3 | Their voices can be heard throughout the following pages , where I refer to them consistently by name . |
| 4 | ‘ Where I come from it 's tougher country than this . ’ |
| 5 | erm in the days when they had terraced houses back to back terraced houses erm well anywhere in the country I guess but but where I come from it was fine for the people who lived with their doors on the on the road but the people who lived at the other side of the block they could n't get from the road so every so often down the down the terrace they had a little alley way an entry I think you 'd probably call it in Scotland , do n't they ? |
| 6 | ‘ Where I work for you ? ’ |
| 7 | Just to look at the cradle he had ready and waiting with its green cover there in the living room transported him , ‘ though it was only a hospital where she was lying and where I sat near her . ’ |
| 8 | Crawford went to two Christmas parties , where nobody spoke to him and he did n't like the food . |
| 9 | They came to a lurching pontoon , where she clung to him in excitement , her eyes enormous at the sight of four enormous man-sized earwigs calmly waiting for the ferryboat . |
| 10 | Her little apartment had become their home , where she cooked for him and they shared all the daylight hours together . |
| 11 | Of course Alison was not ‘ living in ’ the house , but was often there visiting Patrick ( her help as a nurse was no longer required ) , joining Jack in his studio ( where she talked with him about his work ) , or chatting with him and Franca in the drawing room or kitchen before departing with Jack to a restaurant and taking him on to her flat for the night . |
| 12 | All the way down in the train I kept seeing you smiling at me — oh , so wistfully . |
| 13 | ‘ You might own this place , Miguel , and you might have the right to stand where you like on it , but you 'll never make me pleased to see you ever again . |
| 14 | Yeah and there 's er as you go over the top there 's like a postman 's passage and you go past where you turn into it there 's in the corner there . |
| 15 | Then , if you like , you can do a little pantomime routine where you look behind you for the ghost but it follows you around until you finally find it , and then you can do a brief activity with the ghost , like walk around the room in ‘ follow my leader ’ style or sing a song such as ‘ My kneebone 's connected to my thigh bone ’ . |
| 16 | The Germans , where they thought about it at all , regarded Poles of all varieties as uncivilised upstarts whom they loathed for their backwardness , presumption and ambition , and this was a judgement that many East Prussian Poles accepted . |
| 17 | The precedent has now been established that European Community law is invulnerable to deliberate Acts of Parliament , and that British courts are under obligation to disapply those Acts where they conflict with it . |
| 18 | Consequently the cadmium red light and the droplets of gold fused into the Renaissance gold where they fell upon it in rather a pleasing manner . |
| 19 | Very similar to BOGIES used to chastise children , hobyahs kidnapped people and imprisoned them in caves , where they had to mine for fairy gold before they were eaten for their pains . |
| 20 | One of them chewed it off and swallowed it and I 'm covered in gashes where they bit into me . ’ |
| 21 | Grass and tangled weeds criss-crossed the path , slashing their bare feet and ankles and saturating the clothes on their thighs where they brushed against them . |
| 22 | He later took these clients with him to Sheppards ( Stockbrokers ) where they dealt with him on a much larger level . |
| 23 | His mouth was open and drooling and his tongue lolling between his lips and his eyes staring as if he did n't see her and everything about him red , and his hands bruised her skin where he tugged at her to move her where he wanted her , and he was making awful noises and pushing at her and pushing at her without the slightest gentleness almost as if he did n't realise it was her . |
| 24 | The day after that , Tobie was commanded to the Palace and returning , seized Loppe by the arm and marched him into the workroom John le Grant had devised for himself , where he scowled at them both . |
| 25 | He was able to find her and bring her back home where he pleaded with her to stay . |
| 26 | He had been accused early on in the play by Agydeus that he was too barbaric to offer Zenocrate any amorous discourse , yet he manages to produce a lovely speech for her where he talks about he stunning beauty and his love for her : ‘ Zenocrate , the loveliest maid alive … whose eyes are brighter than the lamps of heaven … that with thy looks canst clear the darkened sky ’ . |
| 27 | Especially when he had made it crystal-clear where he stood with her . |
| 28 | After considering the nature of the exercise and the people involved , I decided against asking to use a tape-recorder and instead noted the events in longhand as they occurred and , where it seemed to me to be significant , noted what was said , verbatim . |
| 29 | The trustee need not comply with any request for information where it appears to him that the request is frivolous or unreasonable or the cost of complying would be excessive or there are not sufficient assets to meet the cost of complying ( r 6.152(2) ) . |
| 30 | And do it now rather than them pounce on you later and accuse you of hidin' her . |