Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Julia , Ruth & I did this between us , but none of us had had any experience running the projectors , sound or lighting equipment beforehand . |
| 2 | ‘ When I got there Mr Kordell was with Herbert Chapman and we went into a Lyons tea shop , where I signed amateur for Arsenal . |
| 3 | More attractive were the hillier southern regions of Lewis and Harris where I spent most of my spare time rambling and climbing . |
| 4 | I then went down into the cockpit , where I counted eleven of our best men lying dead . |
| 5 | She opened her eyes , smiled down where I stood waist-deep in water still — the smile itself a quick gasp on evening air — then she was upright , running along the jetty to where Edward waited with the towels . |
| 6 | However — and it seemed to happen , or I became aware of it , quite suddenly — fatigue was setting in . |
| 7 | Was that when we did it , cos I did that with you did n't I in the afternoon , or I did some with somebody |
| 8 | 9.1 For goods which are manufactured by the Seller or which bear one of the Seller 's trade marks , the Seller grants the following guarantee : |
| 9 | ‘ We took Laura to one evening reception where she spent most of the time entertaining folk in the kitchen . |
| 10 | Virginia turned her head lazily where she lay supine on the fine white sand , and shot Guy a smile of such radiance that he flipped off his Raybans and propped himself on his elbows to scrutinise her more intently . |
| 11 | It was an effort for Leonora to wish him goodnight , an even greater effort to walk upstairs slowly , instead of running headlong to her room , where she lay sleepless for hours , unable to get Penry Vaughan 's handsome , cynical face out of her mind . |
| 12 | Her body was found at her flat where she lived alone in Tewkesbury Walk , Newport , Gwent , on 1 July 1988 . |
| 13 | Retired tennis champion Chris Evert also has a home at the Polo Club , where she spends most of the year . |
| 14 | ‘ See , where she comes apparelled like the spring . |
| 15 | At first sight , the ground floor council flat where she lives alone with two cats and Judd could belong to any young person . |
| 16 | And then when I was about seven I went for an eye test where you get one of those cards with all the dots on , and , you 're supposed to see fifty-seven but I could only see twenty-seven . |
| 17 | Where you eat one of these things and there . |
| 18 | A good start is one where you pass close behind the start boat going at speed . |
| 19 | But where you sees two for the price of one , you 're effectively gon na be getting a fifty percent |
| 20 | Page 42 tells you more about the Bodrum peninsula , Bitez , and the two delightful hotels we use , but this is a convenient resort where you live right on the beach , enjoying a friendly style of service that 's difficult to fault . |
| 21 | And so , when faced with something he or she feels unsure about , they seek security from the more confident ( and usually more dominant ) dog , which has been allowed to learn independence and develop a one-to-one relationship with the owner . |
| 22 | While the ombudsman has revealed the occasional bureaucratic horror story , he or she lacks some of the powers of his or her opposite number in other systems . |
| 23 | Once a minister seeks to enact policies that require the expenditure of ‘ new money ’ he or she becomes engaged in what is inevitably a more difficult political exercise . |
| 24 | Any new ratepayer has six months to appeal from the date he or she became responsible for rates . |
| 25 | If the new person shows any signs of shock or fright , or if he or she stays purple for too long then give one dose of Aconite M . |
| 26 | The Tolven Stone in Cornwall ensured fertility in a person if he or she crawled naked through the hole in it . |
| 27 | perhaps the assignment is not appropriate to them but the managing partner of the search firm may well feel that he or she has potential to be an executive search consultant . |
| 28 | In such situations — where the best X per cent of students are to get the As , the next best nX per cent the Bs , and so on — the grade awarded to a student depends not on the absolute level of performance he or she attains but on how he or she performs relative to other students . |
| 29 | If a fight is inevitable and we can not escape , it is irrelevant what he or she intends to do to us , or whether he or she looks capable of doing it . |
| 30 | He or she attempts this by |