Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , smoker or not , drinker or latter-day prohibitionist , be sure to equip yourself with your full duty-free quotas of Marlboros and Bells afore ye go behind the remnants of the Iron Curtain . |
| 2 | At Club LaSanta , the sporting holiday resort where he trains in Lanzarote , the other guests are clearly getting a little fillip from the rangy , easy presence of their imagistic icon , but still he was cornered one night in the bar by a posse of English girls to be accused : ‘ Oh , we hear you 're really arrogant . ’ |
| 3 | Once I get them up from their rest , we go off to the lake and feed the ducks or we go to friends . |
| 4 | But oh , the glory and the convenience of skiing in resorts where you step into your bindings and ski down to the lift without setting foot to snow , where you cruise all day on networks so meticulously designed that you have but to descend to find another fan of lifts at your disposal . |
| 5 | We were then posted to 406 Sqn RCAF where we converted to Beaufighters . |
| 6 | The Cambridge Theatre Company 's production of The Revengers Tragedy — a work believed by some to have been written by Thomas Middleton , others by Cyril Tourneur — opened this week at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre , Guildford where it runs until tomorrow ( Saturday ) before transferring on its tour to the Theatre Royal , Winchester from Tuesday to Saturday next week . |
| 7 | At midday Romany cut the engines , and Milhaez steered the barge into a narrow inlet where we moored between the bank and a low island of reeds and stunted palms . |
| 8 | Some were taken back to the dungeons of Black Crag where they remain to this day , to the anger of Kazador . |
| 9 | Berry arrived with his party at base camp where he ran into the Kazakh climber Valeri Krishchaty by chance . |
| 10 | But , pushing him aside , she gathered her cloak around her , made so bravely from those two old plush tablecloths , and began to walk downhill — the direction she happened to be facing — until she came to St Jude 's churchyard where she sat on a gravestone , her head in her hands , and shivered . |
| 11 | Conciliation facilities are available in the county courts where you go for the divorce . |
| 12 | Now the diode is reverse biased and the capacitor can charge until the feedback makes the output switch back to its original saturation level where it remains in the absence of a further trigger pulse . |
| 13 | If the hon. Member for Oldham , West or I wrote to our local tax inspector and claimed that someone had put a form through our letterbox requiring only our signature for the taxation officer to open up our tax affairs for the past 30 years on the offchance that we might be entitled to something , that would be farcical . |
| 14 | No drain should pass under a building , but where this is unavoidable it must be specially protected by encasing in concrete and supported against settlement where it passes through a wall or foundation . |
| 15 | ’ He reached out to touch her fingers where they rested on the table . |
| 16 | Keepers discovered her desperately fighting for life at the West Midlands Safari Park where she had to be hand-reared before being transferred to the Kingsley wildlife sanctuary , Cheshire , where she takes every opportunity to hitch a ride from the resident Bull Terrier bitch . |
| 17 | The rabbit 's breeding chamber is some 4 or 5 feet ( 1.25 – 1.5 metres ) long and the young are born in a nest of hair where they stay for a month . |
| 18 | As she returned kiss for kiss , sure of nothing but her need for him , she felt his hand free her hair where it clung to her hot damp skin , then glide lightly down . |
| 19 | Liverpool- born , Oliver was for five years a chorister at St Paul 's Cathedral before going on to study at Oxford University where he met with his first operatic success in The Duchess of Malfi . |
| 20 | Although born and educated in Vienna in 1931 he was appointed Tooke Professor of Economic Science in London University where he remained until accepting a Chair of Social and Moral Sciences at the University of Chicago in 1950 . |
| 21 | Born in Glasgow , he was educated at Hillhead High School and Glasgow University where he graduated in medicine in 1928 . |
| 22 | His mouth was open and drooling and his tongue lolling between his lips and his eyes staring as if he did n't see her and everything about him red , and his hands bruised her skin where he tugged at her to move her where he wanted her , and he was making awful noises and pushing at her and pushing at her without the slightest gentleness almost as if he did n't realise it was her . |
| 23 | The precedent has now been established that European Community law is invulnerable to deliberate Acts of Parliament , and that British courts are under obligation to disapply those Acts where they conflict with it . |
| 24 | Either the mermaid was energetically breasting the waves or she sat on the upturned keel of a drowned vessel and combed out long and improbably yellow hair . |
| 25 | Now , partly because of fears for their safety and partly because of increased affluence , many children are either taken to school by car or they travel by bus or train . |
| 26 | Unfortunately the rivers , meandering over their own aggradation , may be expected to produce comparable cliffing where they impinge against the solid rocks of the valley sides , so that , in practice , an interpretation of events based solely on the evidence of landforms is not practicable . |
| 27 | Shortly afterwards they were outward bound for the Great Barrier Reef where they cruised for a year in search of a dream . |
| 28 | Picture an island near Zanzibar ringed by a virginal coral reef where you stay in a thatched hut amongst palm trees on a pristine beach . |
| 29 | Grass and tangled weeds criss-crossed the path , slashing their bare feet and ankles and saturating the clothes on their thighs where they brushed against them . |
| 30 | They originate from pluripotent bone marrow stem cells and migrate through peripheral blood to tissues and body cavities where they differentiate into specialised cells showing great diversity of phenotopic and functional characteristics . |