Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | When the beak could hold no more , they disappeared into the depths of a thicket where presumably they had a well-hidden nest of young . |
2 | It all comes down to practical implementation of flexible working hours and job sharing , so that women working in the nursing profession do not have to follow male patterns of employment , where eventually they find that combining family responsibility with work is simply too difficult , and they leave . |
3 | He had retired to NZ after a long career in education and publishing with Schofield & Sims , Collins Educational and Holmes McDougall , where latterly he had been publishing director . |
4 | We come to a river , absent from my map , where suddenly I see the plains and both banks smeared with colour . |
5 | But it seems clear that I was diverting the feeling of cold , which pertains to the body , away from the physical and into the psychological realm , where alone I believed myself to exist . |
6 | Where exactly it began rather depends on whether or not you decide to categorise certain books as police procedurals or as perhaps crime novels . |
7 | However the alliance represents a watershed for Chorus , which is now embarked on a binary strategy for the very first time , though where exactly it goes from here is still unclear . |
8 | You have to develop that relationship because they can take advantage of you when ever and where ever they want . ’ |
9 | Where once we ruled , now we serve . |
10 | Where once we had Tizwas and The Tube , we now have Bob and Paula 's Big Breakfast and The Word . |
11 | Where once we dwelt our name is heard no more , |
12 | Where once he felt like giving up , he now has the zeal and determination to push further and harder and keep on going until there is real change in the way mankind behaves . |
13 | Where once he had been beautiful now he was hideous ; where once he had been mighty , now he was maimed . |
14 | Where once he had been beautiful now he was hideous ; where once he had been mighty , now he was maimed . |
15 | Where once he had been fair-spoken now his voice was horrible , forced out by ravaged lungs through a ruined throat . |
16 | Outside , the gate had gone from the basement steps , and the slanting roof of the coal hole had fallen in , but when he looked he could see the chafed paint , those marks on the rusted railings , where once he had padlocked his motorcycle . |
17 | Where once she had dithered over choosing a suit for a new day at school , now imminence brought her fast to action — at least in the short term . |
18 | Where once she had been desperate not to miss Johnny , now it seemed that she was fearful at the thought of meeting him . |
19 | Where once she had felt secure she now felt alone . |
20 | [ See Fig. 3 ] Where once the smooth cone of Vesuvius had risen , only a shattered stump now remained ; where once there had been fields and vineyards and all the normal clutter of the countryside there now stretched a silent grey carpet of ash , mantling everything like a thick , dirty snowfall . |
21 | Where once there had been simplicity there was now multiplicity . |
22 | They stayed there for about twenty minutes , walked where once there had been fear and intimidation , tried to imagine it as it had been , wondered who 'd died there , whose dreams had been shattered . |
23 | Telling Luke had given her no satisfaction ; there was no feeling of well-being or sweet revenge , just a cold , forlorn emptiness , where once there had been hope . |
24 | Where once I felt hatred , now I only feel compassion . |
25 | Even so , quick set hedges were planted on either side of these roads to fence them in , where formerly they had wandered at large . |
26 | Pigs had to be kept near to the farmstead , probably in nearby closes , but they could be taken to wastes and pasture and , of course , woodland , where traditionally they ate acorns and beechmast . |
27 | From Finland to Hong Kong — where also no-one had even heard of Charlene Mitchell — Kylie became a sensation . |
28 | He felt that she should have cared enough to confide in us , where really she cared too much and did n't . |
29 | Stunned , I wobbled outside , where fortunately I found that the rain had stopped falling . |
30 | Yet the Germans , by their insensitivity in these matters , actually created the very spectres they sought to exorcise ; they conjured a growing Polish national feeling where virtually none had existed before . |