Example sentences of "[subord] [noun prp] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iain Banks is a thoroughly Scottish writer , and The Crow Road has already been identified as his ‘ crisis ’ novel : a notable softening of the baroque violence and elaboration of the earlier books and the sideline science fiction ( where Banks hides under the minimal false moustache and wig of a middle initial ) . |
| 2 | When items are faulty , not delivered on time , or more rarely where Ian has by his own fault succeeded in botching an order , then he goes on the defensive . |
| 3 | Seeing Nicandra flinching on the cut grass verge of the avenue , he took the long , supple driving whip out of its case and flicked his horse into a more dashing trot . |
| 4 | They reached the turn in level par , having birdied the 5th , where Stewart chipped to four feet , and bogeyed the ninth . |
| 5 | Then she lit him up the stairs , and went before him into the panelled solar , where Rhodri rose from a tall chair by the fire to receive him . |
| 6 | It belongs to a journalist absent in Eastern Europe , and is really just a large closet with a marble fireplace and a tiny bedroom and a bathroom where Candice sits across the bidet unembarrassed , much as she sits across his body . |
| 7 | No trace of the plage de l'Arsenal , where Camus glimpsed for the first time the beauty of the Mediterranean . |
| 8 | There was a glass-fronted mahogany cupboard where Ellen insisted on keeping Bernard 's family photographs , which she had found at the bottom of a suitcase . |
| 9 | Many of them go to north Africa , where Slorne comes from . |
| 10 | They reached Cannes , where Ken got into the spirit of things again much to Paddick 's embarrassment . |
| 11 | He 'd been shown to the interview room where Scott sat with a uniformed officer close by the door . |
| 12 | Dustin and Schisgal had met earlier in August 1966 at the Berkshire Theater Festival in Stockbridge , Massachusetts , where Dustin acted in a number of Schisgal plays — the Old Jew in the play of that name , Max in Reverberations ( changed later to The Basement ) and Jax in Fragments . |
| 13 | It is only in this particular section , where Reger resorts to the use of low tremolandi on a pedal point , that the orchestral provenance of the music is in any evidence . |
| 14 | The epigraph is Veteris vestigia flammae from Aeneid 4 , 23 , where Dido confesses to her confidante that the love she once felt for her now dead husband is about to renew itself for Aeneas . |
| 15 | As well as supplying cricket clubs 3D have supplied pitches for a number of local authorities and many country grounds , while Lilleshall — where England went through their paces before flying off to New Zealand — have had practice pitches installed . |
| 16 | This notable motif occurs in a very similar form in another pavement from the New Market Hall site , Gloucester ( Neal 1981 , no. 52 ) , where Bacchus sits on a leopard amid an arrangement of interlaced squares and half-saltires . |
| 17 | He stopped where Tallis stood on the wall . |
| 18 | This has long been one of my favourite Schnittke pieces , for its Russian-accented dodecaphony-on-stilts , for the post-Holocaust numbness of its third movement , and most of all for the unholy alliances of its finale , where Webern seems to be jiving to West Side Story and Shostakovich meets Vivaldi for a deadly serious jam session . |
| 19 | Where Jackson had in mind a playful swipe at other people 's romantic success , some of those other people read a venomous resentment . |
| 20 | In the hall , turning to Martin , she said , ‘ Come and see the table before you go upstairs , ’ and hurried forward to the dining-room , where Martin exclaimed in genuine appreciation of the table , beautifully decorated with flowers , glass , and silver and set for sixteen people . |
| 21 | Now the winter salon at Saracen , where Elinor waited for Adam , was not only the coolest but the most impressive room in the château . |
| 22 | Where Einstein broke through the previously accepted notions of space and time and re-ordered the fundamental concepts of established physics around the single constant of the velocity of light , Barth undertook a comparable reorientation of theology around the single centre of Jesus Christ . |
| 23 | In addition to the known central features at the systemic velocity of the galaxy ( corresponding to the velocity of its centre ) , there are strong redshifted features with intensities of about one-half or one-third of the main features at ( where LSR stands for local standard of rest ) and weak blueshifted features with intensities of about one-tenth at — 300 to -460kms -1 . |
| 24 | Oersted Institute in Copenhagen found superconductivity in ( TMTSF ) 2 PF 6 , where TMTSF stands for tetramethyltetraselenafulvalene ( New Scientist , vol 87 , p 104 ) . |
| 25 | It is set in the Lime Street parlour , where Coleridge sits by the ‘ low-burnt ’ parlour fire , and Hartley , his ‘ cradled infant ’ , sleeps beside him . |
| 26 | Intuitively , Karen decided to go where Gidget appeared to be pointing , although it meant crossing very difficult country . |
| 27 | At last they came to a clearing , where Vic headed for a mossy log . |
| 28 | Where Sorenstam finished at 11 under par , Helen Alfredsson , her sister Swede , came in at seven under . |
| 29 | Jones often visited Lovelace at the castle and later at New Lodge in Windsor Forest , where Lovelace moved after her marriage to Lord Henry Beauclerk in June 1739 . |
| 30 | Seeing Joseph staring at the women , Paul walked over to him and put an arm around his shoulder . |