Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This gentleman bocht the donkey fae MacGreigor — it was afore my day though — an it wes two or three days in the field at the front door . |
| 2 | That was long afore my day but th they used to always come to curtain market , aha . |
| 3 | ‘ Mum 's in Gloucester , du n no where me dad is . |
| 4 | Have you any idea where my boots are , Mrs Lang ? " |
| 5 | The first birds we see are a group of turnstones and a redshank , busily feeding in the park below the house , probing into the area of damaged grass where my neighbour 's sheep are fed . |
| 6 | Soon I had come out of the field and was walking along the path opposite where my home would be . |
| 7 | Ordinary experience seems to indicate that brain position determines experience content : where my head is ( in space and in time ) is the most important determinant of the content of my consciousness . |
| 8 | I 'm beginning to get very confused about exactly where my head stops and the rest of the world starts . |
| 9 | ‘ You know I 'm not working , I 'm down here trying to find out where my stuff 's gone to . ’ |
| 10 | One evening I went to fetch Joe from the village pub , where my sister sometimes allowed him to smoke his pipe and have a beer . |
| 11 | He finishes at the front and brings the machine round to the back lawn where my sister is having her picnic . |
| 12 | He then said that he now had confirmation from the police and that I qualified for a transfer and would receive an offer for Govan ( where my dad is ) within a week . |
| 13 | ‘ I was bitten lots of times by mosquitoes , once just above my navel , where my shirt buttons were bursting open . |
| 14 | ‘ What happens is that maybe I 'll just see the shape of some chords , or where my fingers should be on the frets . |
| 15 | Now he 's got his arm round where my waist used to be . |
| 16 | There the air rises hotly and on it an eagle may soar further south to where Slorne 's kind live , and where my kind come from too . ’ |
| 17 | Looking round , I found the farm entrance , where my driver and young Mulverin the farmer both greeted me cheerfully . |
| 18 | To the west , the intricate pinnacles of the clock-tower suddenly jumped black out of blinding light into the narrow stone frame where my forehead received the first raindrop big as a grape and cold . |
| 19 | The book has taught me where my imagery was wrong . |
| 20 | Where My Word is unspoken . |
| 21 | Until I can repay the dowry , I have set aside apartments in my household , where my kinswoman may keep her own establishment however she may dispose . |
| 22 | I wonder sometimes where my cousin ended up ; at the bottom of the sea , or washed on to some craggy and deserted shore , or blown on to a high mountain face , to be eaten by gulls or eagles … |
| 23 | ‘ Just do yourself a favour and tell me now where my cousin is . ’ |
| 24 | He used to run ceilidhs in Toonagh — that 's a village near where my parents come from — every Friday night and we used to all go over there — ‘ t was the thing we most looked forward to all week . ’ |
| 25 | I had told him that I was going to Bulith Wells , near where my parents lived , and he had agreed to drop me there . |
| 26 | where my mum and dad live it 's not that bad an area yet they were burgled four times and that they get |
| 27 | It was that inner voice that made me cringe as I lay sleepless on my lumpy mattress listening to the pogoing of the bedstead against the wall next door , where my co-tenants were pursuing their nightly quest for the elusive grail of Trish 's orgasm . |
| 28 | So you see , though I would n't dream of advising you how to arrange a bouquet , there are plenty of other areas where my experience could be of help . ’ |
| 29 | Monday , 22nd : 11.00 : I gave a lecture on ‘ Grammar and Rhetoric : Two Aspects of Communication ’ at Jawaharlal Nehru University , where my hosts were the two . |
| 30 | I release my safety belt to hold you , dangerous ground , ground where my feet have wings of flame . |