Example sentences of "a [noun sg] where [pers pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | She walked down a stone staircase to a basement where you could hang your coat . |
| 2 | On the open land of Hampstead Heath , away from people and houses , he found a place in a field where he could sleep without being disturbed . |
| 3 | The fire should be extinguished , or reduced to a condition where it could not recur , within 8 to 10 minutes from ignition . |
| 4 | I finally stopped going to school when Charlie did , and Eva arranged for me to go to a college where I could finish my A levels . |
| 5 | His speed was such he did n't approach it at a speed where he could erm er l lay off and er let something happen . |
| 6 | Almost nine tenths , 88 per cent , of the people who had spent some time in a residential home were said to have had access to a telephone where they could make calls and people could telephone them . |
| 7 | There were rivers he visited as a child where he could sit and watch water voles every day . |
| 8 | They were left by the LRDG about ten miles south of the target , and marched through the night to a point where they could observe the target during the following day . |
| 9 | And it got to a point where I could n't move . |
| 10 | Psychoanalytic theory reached a point where it could not account for all the observations made within the analytic setting , nor for the murdering impulses shown in mankind 's historical and cultural development . |
| 11 | Once in , Barry was able to amass experience in film-making to a point where he could apply , with confidence of success , for the much-needed union ticket . |
| 12 | They were well out of sight of the broad flight of steps Quiss had entered the kitchens from , at a point where he could continue ahead into the mist , or turn either right or left , past huge fat stoves holding great rotund cauldrons of some bubbling , frothing liquid . |
| 13 | She came to a point where she could see far over the town , she had instinctively gone up following the fleeing daylight , and the mist over there under a sky that was greyish and purplish and darkening again , became apparent because it was being lit up from those distant buildings and streets , the points of light vibrating through the moisture . |
| 14 | He looked at her searchingly , then stopped and led the way across the rabbit-nibbled turf to a point where she could look down on the inlet he called Seal Haven . |
| 15 | The theatre was not large , and the bulk of the audience were out in a couple of minutes , umbrellas raised , heads dropped , darting off into the Village to look for their cars , or a place where they could put some drink in their systems , and play critics . |
| 16 | It would have given us a base at least to operate from , a place where we could be contacted , and where we might even meet some of our fellow producers . |
| 17 | We had over three hours before our train 's timetabled departure at 4 p.m. , which gave us a chance to look round Minehead , get a meal and try to find a place where we could taste a famous local product — scrumpy . |
| 18 | The cathedral , for all its size , was a place where you could be alone with your own thoughts , with your soul . |
| 19 | He settled into the new way of life and rarely thought about Manchester , a place where he could not recollect the sun ever shining . |
| 20 | Then he came to a place where he could not push between two heavy warren bucks . |
| 21 | This ensured that aircraft out on the routes at outstations lacking facilities for making the checks could fly to a place where it could be done . |
| 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 | What had happened at Great Casterton was that the discovery of a wall in a place where it could not possibly exist , according to my ideas of the site , had set in motion all my mental defences . |
| 24 | ‘ I had this thing in my mind that she had to be in a place where I could get to her and she would be well looked after . ’ |
| 25 | However , in the twelfth century corner , I found a place where I could look through four archways at once , a soothing occupation . |
| 26 | I did n't want to work in a place where I could n't wear my fur coat . |
| 27 | And it was also a place where I could get my ship repaired by skilled persons whom I more or less trusted . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She 's difficult to talk to , Penelope thought , moving towards a room where she could hear voices . |
| 30 | But yes I 'm sure you can be a missionary in Harlow and I 'd like to think that maybe I could erm increase that work and maybe have an afternoon a week where I could talk to people about God , but I think there 's not really time in a ten minute surgery slot . |