Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said it where only Lily and Robert could hear . |
| 2 | Where once Hammett and Chandler bestrode the world of Californian crime and corruption like colossuses , now private-eyes like Joseph Hansen 's Dave Brandstetter ( who happens to be homosexual but is otherwise completely in the classic pattern ) an Robert B. Parker 's Spenser ( who happens to work in Boston and be a gourmet cook ) work their contemporary beats in almost exactly the old way . |
| 3 | It belonged to a room on the first floor , where possibly Elizabeth had her own sitting-room . |
| 4 | And , ’ her blush deepened , ‘ you 're obviously determined to believe the worst of me where both Giles and Clive are concerned . ’ |
| 5 | Marion , sitting where both Elizabeth and Lachlan could see her well , bit her tongue not to laugh . |
| 6 | Then , setting up in practice on his own c .1806 , he was employed at Heaton Hall , Lancashire , where both James and Samuel had worked previously ; and on Samuel 's death in 1807 he completed two of his commissions , Tatton Park , Cheshire , and Hackwood Park , Hampshire , and in effect succeeded to his practice in the Cheshire area . |
| 7 | He had brought his wife with him , and settled her in the poverty of the Clerkenwell alleys where later Sarah , their only surviving child , was born . |
| 8 | He has been established as a prose-character in the first scene at Achilles ' tent ( Troilus and Cressida , II.i. ) , where even Agamemnon addressed him in prose , by the law of adaptation to the lower centre of gravity . |
| 9 | Of course this is a work where even Karajan 's detractors can only suspend prejudice in the face of his two superlative versions on DG , but Rostropovich communicates a sense of stark yet searing tragedy which makes his performance , of the first movement in particular , very special . |
| 10 | Central London , where even Hitler 's bombs never stopped the daily pinta getting through , may be the first area where the milkie becomes an extinct species . |
| 11 | The true facts of the matter have been clouded by many cases where the exact nature of the staccato did not greatly matter and where consequently Mozart made no deliberate effort to distinguish the two types . |
| 12 | Where previously Tony had struggled to accept even basic school discipline , he was able to survive St Augustine 's with only the occasional small-scale disagreements with a minority of staff . |
| 13 | The same message has been drummed into the province of Baluchistan and the North-West Frontier Province , where neither Miss Bhutto nor Mr Sharif has much support . |
| 14 | So it is all the more remarkable that in France , Spain and Italy , where politicians hesitate before being less than wholeheartedly Europhile , parties have either come into government , or may soon do so , that are less enthusiastic about European union than those they replaced . |
| 15 | He was standing with his flat door open about four inches to preserve his hundred per cent record of letting no one , except presumably Mr Nassim , see inside . |
| 16 | Here is an extract from a letter written by an indignant rentier to his bailiff ( Driver , no. x ) : When in the next century Alexander the Great , after winning the battle of Issos in Cilicia , turned south against Egypt rather than going immediately east towards the Iranian centre of the Persian Empire , his decision , as we shall see , was strategically sensible ; what is surprising is that the Persians surrendered so quickly , not trying to defend Egypt at all , although economically Egypt probably mattered more to the Persian upper class than any other satrapy . |
| 17 | It is clear that almost all the European Free Trade Association countries , except perhaps Iceland , will want to join the Community . |
| 18 | WITH A musical pedigree like Wilson Phillips , it 's no surprise that , more than any other group , except perhaps Cud , this all-girl-trio from California have defined pop music in the '90s . |
| 19 | Add to that a lot of nervousness which led to two false starts , and nobody was too happy , except perhaps Ernie Obeng who just pipped the American Darwin Cook to win . |
| 20 | I was of course , delighted , and as I could recall her face more clearly than anyone else 's , except perhaps Richard 's , I was able to comply . |
| 21 | We none of us , except perhaps Herman Schrijver , knew that Ivy was quite well off , and that ‘ a dip into capital ’ did not mean ruin . |
| 22 | All continued to live in Lincoln after 1186 except perhaps Isaac , whose house in London was in the king 's hands by 1213 . |
| 23 | My own taste is so eclectic ( or should I say conditioned by the cheapest bargain available ) that I am not evangelical on behalf of any product — except perhaps Valpeda foot balm , which soothes the weary feet better than anything I know , softens hard skin and banishes athlete 's foot . |
| 24 | Although perhaps Belinda with a bowl of fruit … ’ |
| 25 | A new race of novelists may result , making it possible to refute with more confidence than hitherto B. S. Johnson 's fear that the British novel has never fulfilled the huge potential created by the irruption of modernism into the literature of the twentieth century . |
| 26 | But the episode tells us more than perhaps Adam of Eynsham intended . |
| 27 | ‘ She thought she would get more for her money and she felt it was a more friendly environment than perhaps Liverpool or somewhere like that . ’ |
| 28 | No one , of course , other than perhaps Winston Churchill and those in the very top echelons of the services , knew exactly when and where it would take place , but the tide by now had definitely and dramatically turned in favour of the Allies . |
| 29 | Other people 's systems will be integrated , although only AT&T holding NCR Corp is currently involved , with a plan to provide similar support in its Unix-based StarGroup software line with applications complimentary to NetWare . |
| 30 | Although only Nicaragua and the United States were parties to the original litigation , the United States claimed that its actions in and against Nicaragua were justified as collective self-defence of the territorial integrity and political independence of those third States , in particular of El Salvador . |