Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In theory the first step in the procedure is a formal application for payment of arrears by either the landlord or someone acting as an agent . |
| 2 | At the kick off , Arse canter upfield , Merson or someone puts in a cross from the right which Arse players in the box ignore but which Jon Newsome guides home past Lukic . |
| 3 | Turning , then , to the relationship of criminal law and legal theory , I asked what legal theory might contribute to criminal law and I dealt with two central issues ; first , the limits of exposition imposed by the nature of legal rules which , I argue , are essentially incomplete and therefore incapable of a final , exhaustive statement ; and , secondly , the nature of methodological purity , where I argue against a tendency to distort data to fit a favoured critical principle . |
| 4 | I basically leave them stock , except for the lead pickup , where I go with a Lace Sensor Super Lead . |
| 5 | Down the street opposite , Spring Avenue , and towards the car park , where I head for a silver Ford Granada , so that I can pause and hide a mo , to see how the pursuit is going . |
| 6 | My next call was to a local Somerset newspaper , where I spoke to a gentleman about the subject of the Chalice Well cover . |
| 7 | I had to go below ground to an office where I spoke to a policeman . |
| 8 | The computer printed report should be annotated to indicate those problems which are outstanding for more than five days or which led to a Change Request . |
| 9 | Distress caused her eyes to brim with tears , and , furious with her own weakness , she turned and went to the inner office window , where she stared through a blur at the tree-sheltered chalets . |
| 10 | I 've got a list of phone numbers , it seems like fifty , of different people who have been invoked — the doctor , the home help , district nurse , chiropodist , social worker , hospital doctor , Age Concern , the Red Cross , the old people 's home where she went for a break and dozens more , I hardly know who they are . |
| 11 | He found her where she clung to a rope that was curled up in a corner of the iron ship and picked her up and carried her through a secret tunnel down through the floor of the ship , down through the underwater creatures , deep into the earth beneath the swirling sea . |
| 12 | Some Christian girls took her to live with them in a tiny flat where she slept on a sofa in the cramped living room . |
| 13 | The second daughter , Katarina ( Tinka ) , also graduated from the College , where she taught for a time . |
| 14 | Hearing what sounded like a muttered exclamation of fury at her elbow , Melissa looked around and saw Dora turn on her heel and march off into the orchard , where she stopped under an apple tree and stared up into the branches as if inspecting its heavy crop of fruit . |
| 15 | She seemed to vanish as quickly as she had appeared , leaving Ianthe to be pushed forward into the train , where she stood in a daze until she found herself sitting down in a seat offered to her by a small boy . |
| 16 | Dorothy , the eldest , went to the maternal grandparents , where she stayed for a number of years . |
| 17 | But , pushing him aside , she gathered her cloak around her , made so bravely from those two old plush tablecloths , and began to walk downhill — the direction she happened to be facing — until she came to St Jude 's churchyard where she sat on a gravestone , her head in her hands , and shivered . |
| 18 | Her face has been seen on millions of TV screens in the chocolate advert , where she lies in a bath calmly eating a Flake . |
| 19 | All but four relate to children and babies who were patients on Ward 4 , the children 's ward , where she worked as a nurse . |
| 20 | where you went for a walk , down , went to the shops |
| 21 | The Moorings ' holidays offered through Caribbean Connection range from fully crewed charter to combined hotel and sailing holidays where you stay at an hotel on Tortola or St Lucia , either learning to sail or combining the pleasures of a beach holiday with sailing . |
| 22 | Where you go for a pound . |
| 23 | What it boiled down to was : there was here , where he had friends and family , or there was London where he had a few friends and a lot of contacts , and it felt like things were happening , and where you could fill time with something no matter how mixed up and fraudulent you felt … or there was abroad , of course ; the rest of the world ; India ( to take the most extreme example he 'd found so far ) , where you felt like an alien , lumbering and self-conscious , materially far more rich and spiritually far more poor than the people who thronged the place , where just by that intensity of touching , that very sweating crowdedness , you felt more apart , more consigned to a different , echoing place inside yourself . |
| 24 | You either buy a ticket or you come with a bottle . |
| 25 | Or you coming for a ride ? |
| 26 | He recommends shampooing hair at least twice a week , more often if it looks as if it needs it or you live in a city . |
| 27 | Or attempt to explore with a Central European Jew the precise nature of the ties that he or she feels with a culture which down the centuries has been responsible for so much persecution and pain . |
| 28 | In the biography of every individual he or she begins in a state of infantile dependence which ‘ is characterised by a persistence of both primary identification ( the emotional state of the infant in the womb ) and the oral incorporative or ‘ taking in ’ attitudes ( contributed by breast feeding ) as the infant 's chief means of object-relationships after birth ’ ( Guntrip , 1961 ) . |
| 29 | At this point the marginal pound he or she earns from an hour 's work is just more than equal to the value of that hour in watching TV or pottering in the garden . |
| 30 | If you are not related by blood , or were not legally married to the deceased , you can not inherit from him or her if he or she dies without a will . |