Example sentences of "where [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she do n't ask me where nothing is , she just asks me if I can spare lOp . |
| 2 | Honesty , that confident , cheerful plant with its brave brilliant flowers and beautiful silver-gold glistening seeds , which grew where nothing else would . |
| 3 | He knows where nothing can go wrong , where the young man is worrying ‘ My God , if something happens which I have not calculated for … ’ . |
| 4 | Now the thing with the bar-tailed lark is that it just lives in the desert where nothing else does and to complicate matters it lives in the forbidden zone . |
| 5 | Very useful in teething which is this oversensitive , capricious state where nothing pleases and the teething is worse ( < ) heat and night , better ( > ) cold applications . |
| 6 | IF YOU want to watch television around midnight on the Sabbath , and if you happen to be in a region where nothing less important has taken precedence , you can follow one of the most excellent science series of recent times . |
| 7 | The verderers planned to take her back to Ridgery Butts but Ridgery Butts was the other side of the stream in a different world and this was the forest where nothing usual and expected happened . |
| 8 | Oh , roamed about all over Earth , as far as I could make out , travelled on foot across huge mountain ranges and vast great deserts where nothing lived . |
| 9 | The one area where nothing seemed to have occurred was in setting up a Social Fund , since the Six had even begun to grasp the nettle of a common agricultural policy , agreeing in January 1962 to introduce common target prices for the most important farm products and a levy on agricultural imports into the EEC . |
| 10 | By avoiding any practical direction to what they do together , one avoids the futility of the nursing situation where nothing exists beyond the hospital . |
| 11 | Although Cornwall was not the only county where nothing less than 40s. was reckoned as substance , the making of an independent return by each hundred resulted in five sets of officials taking different views of the native poor , the complement of which tapered off from the modest ( 15 per cent ) in the eastern parts to the negligible ( 0.4 per cent ) in the far west , balanced to some extent by aliens , who were classed as poor and accounted for one-eighth of this category , making Penwith the antithesis of East hundred , notwithstanding that many who were subsequently taxed in Kerrier hundred were passed over in 1522 . |
| 12 | It is all too easy to create a generous image in a country where nothing exists . |
| 13 | Once in her life already she had become attached to someone and had allowed herself to be swept down with him in his lonely vortex into the silent depths where nothing moves but drowned sailors coughing seaweed ; only Miriam herself knew how much it had cost her to ascend again from that fascinating , ghostly world towards light and life . |
| 14 | I 'm sure you will agree that there 'd be nothing worse than to start into a erm er , regeneration idea on an estate and then have a a year or two 's hiatus where nothing can happen because we 're er pushing the hag funding elsewhere in the town . |
| 15 | I think it 's a matter of giving yourself time of accepting that maybe you 're feeling low or I fe , when I 'm feeling low I say right , I ca n't cope with things I 've got to give myself some time where nothing 's gon na bother me , if I can manage it , an hour , half an hour , just doing something for myself that I really like and that helps me once I accept myself as being depressed then it helps alleviate the stress involved with it . |
| 16 | on heights where nothing else survives |
| 17 | And we never hear about the thousands and thousands of sales that must take place every day where nothing 's gone wrong at all . |
| 18 | I am in the graveyard where nothing lives but the slow-worm , motionless on the short grass by the path , and the little birds who search among the yews like Elizabeth in the wardrobe . |
| 19 | Where cloth had been scarce they had pinned ivy or ch'in-sei , the silver-leafed creeper which grew where nothing else would survive , and Artai 's device — an eagle with an arrow in its talons — was painted onto friezes which were roped to gables and lamp cressets . |
| 20 | Sometimes colourful with red or orange pigments , they occur on the dry rocky plains of northern Greenland , Alaska and Canada , on the Siberian islands , on dry rocks among the tundra where nothing else grows ( Richardson and Finegan , 1977 ) , and throughout Antarctica , including inland mountains less than 500km from the South Pole ( Greene and others , 1967 , Cameron et al . , |
| 21 | I had not doubt that this Ichaelan free-lance , probably some spindly droop with acne and myopia , had found himself on a world where nothing but good old genetics had spawned a race of tall , handsome , muscular people . |
| 22 | Choral music is best suited to simple , lyrical texts where nothing is superfluous . |
| 23 | The specialities of the counter were overcooked pastries and undercooked rolls , and nobody was buying ; the place was simply a focus of life at this hour of night , in an area where nothing much else was happening . |
| 24 | He climbed the stairs , went through the living-room where nothing seemed to have changed , and down to the shop . |
| 25 | Naturally adventurous , she loved the life in Abyssinia , where nothing daunted her . |
| 26 | She had built a safe world where nothing hurt , and she intended to stay in it . |
| 27 | Limbs pliant , reason suspended , she lay in a universe where nothing mattered except that he should not stop . |
| 28 | to fit the stores where nothing was for sale |
| 29 | " I love foliage and I think you have to rely a lot on that in small gardens because you do n't have room to leave dormant areas where nothing is happening for a long period , " she says . |
| 30 | He does not dwell on the significance of the Incarnation , but rather on the process by which the individual can , despite partial knowledge and creatureliness , enter into a darkness where nothing is known , yet God is existentially encountered in love . |