Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you any idea where my boots are , Mrs Lang ? " |
| 2 | ‘ What happens is that maybe I 'll just see the shape of some chords , or where my fingers should be on the frets . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | I had told him that I was going to Bulith Wells , near where my parents lived , and he had agreed to drop me there . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I release my safety belt to hold you , dangerous ground , ground where my feet have wings of flame . |
| 8 | However , my sense of superiority was soon punctured when I gave a paper on semantics at the Philological Society , where my views met with scepticism and some hostility . |
| 9 | I 'd been in and out of hospitals , where my veins had been pumped full of glucose because I 'd refused to eat . |
| 10 | ‘ Now I can speak of Callanish , ’ Minch continued more slowly , ‘ where my ancestors flew and where once so long ago I cast my shadow down . ’ |
| 11 | If I could get a home where my kids could grow up with daily fear and where I could also help my father , I could push this hell out of my mind and start afresh with my family . |
| 12 | ‘ The Playfair football and cricket titles sell a lot of copies through general wholesalers and cash'n'carry , where their customers will buy a counterpack . |
| 13 | ‘ Beating the bounds will remind local people just where their commons and greens are and discourage encroachments and other unlawful works , thus contributing to the safeguarding of these ancient pieces of land . ’ |
| 14 | Zen obediently rose and followed , wondering as a dog perhaps does at his stupidity in not understanding why they were going that way , where their enemies lay in wait . |
| 15 | Long ago the Vikings had a village where their ships ' crews rested and sheltered in the inlet of the River Hull . |
| 16 | The Nightriders choir , including Santa , helped 1,000 passengers pass the time at Stansted , Essex , as they waited to be taken by bus to Luton or Gatwick where their flights had been diverted . |
| 17 | The Somerset commoners succeeded in fighting off most attempts at drainage where their contemporaries in the eastern counties had failed . |
| 18 | They put to sea in an attempt to escape the martyr 's wrath , and were shipwrecked , with 160 of their vessels sinking and another 65 being driven to distant and unknown regions , where their occupants were slaughtered . |
| 19 | It 's a compromise between the straight-ahead disco that guarantees a toehold in the charts — the retread of Never Can Say Goodbye is a rather cheap cash-in on the success of Do n't Leave Me This Way — and the more varied explorations where their hearts probably lie . |
| 20 | And then all conscious thought was obliterated as an urgent , tingling excitement contracted through her body , and she was soaring free with him into realms of exquisite delight , where their hearts and souls became one . |
| 21 | It is widely agreed that such psychoactive plants or preparations from them were much used in religious ceremonies , where their effects were taken as evidence for religious reality ; visions of Paradise which could be reached only by the faithful . |
| 22 | On the other hand , parents who show no sign of caring where their youngsters are , or what they are doing , not only leave them free to get into all kinds of trouble but make it harder for them to take responsibility by depriving them too soon of parental care . |
| 23 | There were two groups in East Africa who had a direct interest in discrediting Masai administration and suggesting that officials were ‘ soft ’ on the Masai : these were , most importantly , the white settlers who wanted Masai land for farming , and enthusiasts for wildlife conservation who wanted the Masai driven out of areas where their interests were believed to conflict with those of game . |
| 24 | The practical corollary of this , tirelessly expounded in the Round Table in the post-war years , was that the safest place for brown races , for now and the foreseeable future , was within the British empire , where their interests could be looked after and their development , at an appropriately gradual pace , ensured . |
| 25 | Where their interests overlapped with the Maud Committee they reached similar conclusions , and we may concentrate on the latter as dealing in greater detail with the concerns of this chapter . |
| 26 | As in the US , there is scope for private parties to bring actions for damages ( though not multiple damages ) where their interests have been harmed by violations of Articles 85 and 86 . |
| 27 | Much as he wished that Aunt Tossie might keep her mind on the Form Book , where their interests in beating the Handicapper ran together , he had nevertheless acceded to her insistence on a party , a small house party , for Nicandra 's first real ball . |
| 28 | The characterisation of futures brokers as " agents " is at first sight inappropriate since most markets now operate on a " principals only " basis where their members are concerned . |
| 29 | Such cases may have been exceptional , but a great many servants seem to have passed their lives in households where their employers knew them by their functions , not their names . |
| 30 | Their eyes migrated from the sides of their heads ( where their cousins still keep them ) , to look forward with acute stereoscopic vision , and their brains began to mushroom in proportion to their body-weight . |