Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh adv] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'll hang it in the bedroom where you can see it when you wake up . ’ |
| 2 | They had to take the initiative , but they were encouraged to seek technical guidance wherever they could get it . |
| 3 | ‘ If you keep asking for things you 'll be too expensive to keep — we 'll all just starve to death or you 'll have to be sent away to a Home where they 'll lock you up . |
| 4 | Sort my love life with Rocky out , we 've had a bit of a tiff at the moment , as a result I 've had to drop him from the squad completely and he 'll probably go and join the scum where he 'll show me up like that poncy french bugger who used to play here . |
| 5 | Although she snatched a moment whenever she could to telephone her much missed family , ‘ you could feel her disappointments , her lack of freedom . |
| 6 | Theodora wondered for a moment how he would place her . |
| 7 | Meanwhile in France , Robert Mitze , general director of USL Europe Ltd , said , ‘ We 're having other discussions with potential partners in Europe , but we have n't yet reached the point where we can announce them . ’ |
| 8 | So you can work out in advance the question there is , and try and condense down , prepare your answers mentally , prepare for those question areas , and condense down your arguments to the point where you can put them across succinctly . |
| 9 | Sometimes I feel that I could get to the point where I 'd let her get on the bus [ transport to day care ] in the morning and then ring them up later and say ‘ Do n't bring her back because I wo n't let her in ’ … |
| 10 | When she reached the plateau she remained standing , watching for Joss Barnet , waiting for the moment when she would see him riding towards her . |
| 11 | Er , has it ever been considered on Health Master , because , s say , for example , Cover Master you can actually split periods , and levels of sum assured , cos you have the selected period where you 'd have it higher . |
| 12 | The torch was still on the shelf where he 'd put it when he came in . |
| 13 | No oh no they or they would dump it in a place where nobody would see it you see . |
| 14 | And er that 's and then of course and then of course in the other place where they used to do it , they used to just pull these ladders out and these there nets was all folded up and everything ready to do away abroad or anywhere you know . |
| 15 | There 's a great deal of theological thinking of a very different kind going on outside Europe in the Third World , in Latin America and Africa , in India — the place where we used to think we sent our understanding of God for the heathen to be converted to it , and we 're beginning to have to listen to those places and to receive what they have to give us , rather than thinking that it 's all settled in our patch of the world . |
| 16 | Just give me its name and tell me the place where I can find it . ’ |
| 17 | There is one place where I can say I am at home , where I can live in peace and quiet with my most beloved father and my dearest sister , where I can do as I like , where apart from the duties of my appointment I am my own master , and where I have a permanent income and yet can go off when I like , and travel every second year … |
| 18 | ‘ There 's a place where you can see it , after the bend . ’ |
| 19 | so they just call it E T , she said they can actually send you to a place where you can get you , your experience and er because they 've sent you , you get an extra certain amount , ten pound a week , cos you 're going through the job centre |
| 20 | In a way the proposal that the state of the universe is determined by a sum over only nonsingular histories is like the drunk looking for his key under the lamp-post : It may not be where he lost it , but it is the only place where he might find it . |
| 21 | She knew perfectly well that he was not very interested in paintings and that he was looking only for a secluded place where he could kiss her . |
| 22 | He joined the Kennedy Administration direct from the board of the Ford Motor Company and began sweeping away waste wherever he could find it . |
| 23 | Well we just thought somewhere at the back where we could pin them against the wall . |
| 24 | There would surely be lots of occasions during the day when she could get him to kiss her , she told herself . |
| 25 | As soon as the off-licence opened I bought a dozen cans of Norseman lager , hefting the packs under my arm as I went off to find a quiet corner of the station where I could guzzle them in peace . |
| 26 | He brings the teddy bear and sits it on the windowsill where it can watch us . |
| 27 | So it does pay you to be a member of R A C , National Breakdown , A A or whatever because at least most of them provide a service where they can take you to your destination and or arrange further transport for you . |
| 28 | Could I just say at this point , this , this is one area where I would envisage us looking critically at what we 're doing and , and , and , and altering things quite significantly over the next six months . |
| 29 | In the side pocket where he 'd put it ! |
| 30 | But Dave 's at the age where he can work it off |