Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I got there Mr Kordell was with Herbert Chapman and we went into a Lyons tea shop , where I signed amateur for Arsenal . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | However — and it seemed to happen , or I became aware of it , quite suddenly — fatigue was setting in . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Her body was found at her flat where she lived alone in Tewkesbury Walk , Newport , Gwent , on 1 July 1988 . |
| 7 | ‘ See , where she comes apparelled like the spring . |
| 8 | At first sight , the ground floor council flat where she lives alone with two cats and Judd could belong to any young person . |
| 9 | A good start is one where you pass close behind the start boat going at speed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Any new ratepayer has six months to appeal from the date he or she became responsible for rates . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Tolven Stone in Cornwall ensured fertility in a person if he or she crawled naked through the hole in it . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | For the baby who does not respond to this , or who has colic at any time of day , food intolerance should be investigated ( see pp 215–7 ) . |
| 20 | Deferred pension entitlements for employees who have left the STG or who leave prior to privatisation will be similarly protected . |
| 21 | Those who can not afford to go to many concerts or buy records , or who live far from the centres of music-making , can hear much good orchestral music by radio . |
| 22 | Yet a disgruntled secretary , or one left unemployed by dismissal or the death or recall of his master , might easily be tempted to profit by the information he had acquired in his work . |
| 23 | Or we jerk awake to the world of possessions |
| 24 | In July 1842 , the master noted that James Paine , an able-bodied man , ‘ objects and refuses to attend divine worship on the grounds that he is of no persuasion , and that he will not attend in a place like this , where they act contrary to scripture in parting man and wife ’ . |
| 25 | The spokeswoman also called for the area of beach where they became stuck to be clearly signposted . |
| 26 | Reception staff at hotels are often instructed that where they feel cautious about a prospective guest 's ability to pay the final bill , payment shall be requested in advance . |
| 27 | However , where they feel safe from the management 's glare and there is a low risk of being attacked , the men often walk the beat together , although this risk ensures they never call at premises together . |
| 28 | The street lights had just come on , a little premature , and where they stood close to any of the orphan-like trees their electric brightness was captured in the mesh of dusty leaves , giving the street an elegance it had otherwise long since lost . |
| 29 | The child needs to learn how and why to use a potty and parents may need to be encouraged to take their child to the lavatory with them so that the child can imitate what happens , have a potty around , tell the child what it is for , and encourage him or her to get used to it by sitting on it . |
| 30 | At its farthest point , that spot where he hovered high in the air before the rope changed direction , he knew that he was suspended sixty feet above Mucky Beck and the perimeter wall . |