Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cynthia stood up and walked across to the window , where she stared out across the busy London street . |
| 2 | Sliding her arm from beneath him , Beth got out of bed and , wrapping her robe about her shivering form , went first to the window , where she looked out at the moonlit night . |
| 3 | Sally-Anne 's own preserve was the kitchen , where she ate either at the kitchen table , or , when that was full , at a small card table which was folded up and put away when she had finished . |
| 4 | She went into the living room where she settled down at the dining table to mark compositions . |
| 5 | Fabia reached Ven 's suite and let herself in , walked across the sitting-room and into her bedroom where she sat down on the edge of the bed , and felt , for the moment , defeated . |
| 6 | She slammed the boot down , with a cry of ‘ God Almighty ! ’ and ran indoors , where she sat down at the kitchen table and beat her fists against the wood , with anger , with frustration , with a sudden , desperate concern for Nick . |
| 7 | They passed close to her , where she crouched still in the bushes . |
| 8 | Is n't this where you line up for the tram coming home from work ? ’ |
| 9 | ( d ) Memorial ( where you turn right at the ornamental garden ) to one of the Water Board 's founders , 1904 . |
| 10 | Coming in in the corners where the where you go out on the landing . |
| 11 | I do n't know what it 's called but there 's this bit where you go down on the floor like an anteater . |
| 12 | Spike : Another word for the smash , where you jump up by the net and whack the ball down with your hand . |
| 13 | Where you start down at the estbottom and build it right up to the goddamn , fuckin' sky ! ’ |
| 14 | Where you look please at the word retinue which is figure two it means ritardando a bit slower . |
| 15 | I have always liked to read the Golden Age detective stories , if you like , the country house murder mysteries , but I would have to admit that reading those is to some extent desire for stasis , a desire erm for a particularly safe kind of world , where everything works out in the end , because that 's usually what happens , and so these days I tend only to take very small doses of that particular medicine . |
| 16 | This type of alteration is called saussuritisation , and other similar types of hydrothermal alteration can be recognised in the other igneous rocks of the igneous complex of south Harris where they crop out in the thrust zone . |
| 17 | He said , ‘ Remember the peasant dance where they came out in the long , hooped skirts and you ca n't see their feet ? |
| 18 | Lawyers , basically , are trained for and used to an adversary system — where they act either for the prosecution or plaintiff , or for the defence — and seem always to see things in terms of guilt or innocence . |
| 19 | The first tomatoes of the year , firm and cushiony , with tucks where they plumped out around the bottom of the stalk were quartered in their own juice on a dish with oregano and slender crescents of a veined purple onion , sliced with the first stone pressing of olive oil . |
| 20 | Now it seemed as if his arms tapered all the way down to his fingertips where they lay lightly on the wheel of the Audi . |
| 21 | A water where they feed both on the bottom and at the surface can be outwardly identical to one where they feed only on the bottom . |
| 22 | A water where they feed both on the bottom and at the surface can be outwardly identical to one where they feed only on the bottom . |
| 23 | All-night parties , Nina dancing in the nude , Modi stumbling into the sketching class very drunk , the weekly visits to the Gaieté Montparnasse , a small , bawdy music-hall where they sat up in the gallery , all paint a happy-go-lucky picture . |
| 24 | You may also see otters , or their pug marks , where they slip quietly into the loch , keeping Strathbeg trout alert and fit . |
| 25 | I tell the truth , honest I do ! " one was shouting , and it and a few others tugged at the lower edges of the few furs he still had on and pulling on his under-breeches where they appeared out of the top of his boots . |
| 26 | It drew the hungry child from his bed to the landing , where he glanced nervously at the Bogeyman 's room before creeping on tip-toe along the strip of faded carpet . |
| 27 | He told Stephanie to put her feet up and went into the kitchen for solitude , where he began purposefully on the dishes . |
| 28 | On his way he passed the church , where he looked closely at the old tower door . |
| 29 | Lara had played just where he left off in the World Cup , where he was comfortably the leading West Indian run-scorer with 333 at 47 . |
| 30 | Edward made himself a cup of tea and vanished to the Britches , where he stayed late into the dusk . |