Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I 'll go to look for where they were born and bred .
2 for where they are
3 Public dispositions raise additional questions , for where there is a public interest we need not suppose that all was left to regulation by the remedies of private law .
4 For where there is a legislature subject to no constitutional limitations and competent by its enactment to deprive all other rules of law emanating from other sources of their status as law , it is part of the rule of recognition in such a system that enactment by that legislature is the supreme criterion of validity .
5 There is the concern for the physical manifestation of the problem , a place-based concern for where it occurs .
6 For where it has been drawn is everywhere ; from the insistence of Thorndike , and the early behaviourists like Watson and Hull , that all is to be explained , including human behaviour , in terms of conditioned reflexes , to the open-handedness of well-meaning liberationists like Rollin who argue that even worms and sea anemones should be given the benefit of the doubt since we can not be certain that they do not feel pain and therefore have a consciousness ( 1981 : 31 ) .
7 One very small point of procedure is worth noting : at a first glance at this example there appears to be a redundancy of the indication pp , but on closer examination it is seen that it has never been used unnecessarily , for where it appears on the same line of the score in two successive bars the first of the pair of instruments whose parts are written on that line enters alone , and the second joins him in the next bar .
8 I have an open ticket for where I 'm flying to first . ’
9 Over and over the events of the day I go , vainly searching for where I went wrong …
10 Jim was elected to Portsmouth city council in nineteen seventy six as a member for where I understand he tried to play football occasionally until nineteen eighty six .
11 I turn for where I remember the door to be and see others pitching forward , slamming drinks down to cover their faces with their hands .
12 At the opening service in Canterbury cathedral ( 3 July 1958 ) Ramsey muddled his instructions and wandered all round the cathedral looking for where he was supposed to sit and stand .
13 Patsy turned to them , unmarked except for where he had been stained by his brother 's blood .
14 He assumed , however , that rather than evolving over the ages to suit their environment , they had been ‘ ready-made ’ by God to the perfect design needed for where He placed them .
15 ‘ So Billy Tuckett gets badly scared and starts running for where he thinks his old friend Lucy Scarrott lives . ’
16 Searching round for where she 'd put her champagne glass , she discovered it on a wrought-iron table behind her .
17 For where your treasure is , there will your heart be also .
18 About where it is .
19 But he 's even becoming a complete , in the holidays when I 've got the housework to do and meals to cook , and him to look after if there 's another pair of hands that can take him out for an hour
20 If you let the R A C sort out your motoring insurance holiday , they 'll book the best ferry crossing , fix your accommodation and ensure you 're looked after if you run into any difficulties .
21 And he knew that Marama , because of her title , would always be looked after if she stayed on Koraloona , so it would be wrong of him to be selfish and expect her to live in semi-starvation on a strange island .
22 The granddaughter I look after because my , my daugh youngest daughter 's gone back to work .
23 She had her own weekends , here in London , staying with Veronica , whose flat she was now looking after while its owner worked a year 's exchange course at UCLA .
24 The comedian Spike Milligan held forth about God , Diana gave a priceless diamond and pearl necklace to a friend to look after while she danced ; while the Queen was observed looking through the programme and saying in bemused tones : ‘ It says here they have live music ’ , as though it had just been invented .
25 It is still not clear whether Ms Gibson believed she had made arrangements for Gemma to be looked after while she was away .
26 It is thought she will face questioning about whether she made proper arrangements for Gemma to be looked after while she was away .
27 Once hatched , the young maleos are easy to look after since they are fully active and able to feed themselves .
28 Our purpose built well equipped creche is full of all the toys and games that children enjoy and our fully qualified and experienced staff will ensure that your child is happy and well looked after whilst you enjoy the attractions of the Sportcentre .
29 Mrs Sherwood relates the death of a boy of six , whom she and her husband had been asked to look after whilst his parents were in India :
30 Both knights have to be bathed , shaved and properly clothed , and well looked after before they come to themselves , and Lancelot is ‘ sore ashamed ’ of his madness , and asks that it be kept from common knowledge .
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