Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Right where we want you , ’ a quiet voice completed her sentence from behind her . |
| 2 | Right where it meets which is there . |
| 3 | When she 'd said she was worried about her superiors , he 'd felt like telling her that he had her superiors right where he wanted them , but he could n't . |
| 4 | I knew that Ben was a good enough footballer to play effectively where we wanted him . ’ |
| 5 | He 's run out of plaster and he 's got an urgent call somewhere where he thinks he 'll need it . |
| 6 | While one may whizz straight through the enemy , and another might stall in front of your Mob , the other one is bound to end up somewhere where you want him . |
| 7 | If you have a combination skin , recognisable by an oily T-zone ( forehead , nose and chin ) and drier cheeks , apply moisturiser only where you need it ( ie over the cheeks and up to the temples ) . |
| 8 | It stays longer where you need it to stay — in the stomach — and moves more swiftly where you need it to move more swiftly , through the intestine and bowel . |
| 9 | ( Nothing to do with mice or holes but probably a corruption of the Cornish Moweshayl , young women 's river — perhaps where they did their washing . ) |
| 10 | And a call came over the radio that there was a problem with one of the pumps downstairs , so seeing I had nothing better to do at that time I went downstairs to give them a hand . |
| 11 | So where she fill it up from ? |
| 12 | So where you have your potage erm meat , vegetables such as they are , and sweet . |
| 13 | place of the All where she had her dwelling . |
| 14 | But the money gets nicked , so the one who 's married , she goes and robs erm a store and then , they , the policeman pulls them over and wants to take them in so they lock him in his boot . |
| 15 | We decided to move the chairs out to make more room , but the acceptances kept coming in so we thought we 'd open the French windows and pray for a sunny day . ’ |
| 16 | She had already known , half consciously , that she liked her grandmother better than she liked her mother , and loved her mother more fiercely than she loved her grandmother . |
| 17 | Okay so although you say you 've finished your differentiation exam |
| 18 | They say , ‘ Thank you for playing the hymn , you did n't mention my name so although I know you were n't playing it just for me , I felt as if you were ’ . |
| 19 | So once you know what it means it helps a little bit and can you think of a word that ends the same as that ? |
| 20 | So once you got him into your fleshy arms — ’ |
| 21 | So once you found it |
| 22 | Anecdotal stories show that Smith had often understood the subjects of other mathematicians ' researches better than they had themselves , but had not published because he saw further than they did , and realised that their results were special cases of a general theory not fully uncovered . |
| 23 | Everybody likes you better than they like me said Manyara , the elder sister . |
| 24 | did better than they thought they would |
| 25 | Though it is mistaken to suppose that the British made no effort to leave the Masai better than they found them , it is clear that their potential emergence from the colonial period much as they had entered it was something their administrators could in the end accept with equanimity . |
| 26 | Although I 've no doubt you know better than we do what the opposition are |
| 27 | They read our body language better than we do ourselves , and signal to us just as they would to each other . |
| 28 | They understand what we say better than we understand them . |
| 29 | ‘ Your comment about him finding it difficult to live with the idea of someone being better than him forced me into a complete rethink . |
| 30 | Better than I thought it would be . |