Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome . |
| 2 | I can see the range , where it is , and where I want it to be . |
| 3 | I then went to Coventry Belgrade for six months , where I did everything from Malcolm in Macbeth to the play Charlie 's Aunt . |
| 4 | But Bob said to me where I bought it from , he said I do n't think it would survive the winter because it comes from the Scilly Isles which is warmer . |
| 5 | ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully . |
| 6 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 7 | After breakfast at the palace all the inmates are thrown out , whatever the weather , and the only place he can take his child is outside : " Usually I take my little boy at weekends to the fair at Whitley Bay , or I take him on the metro and we sit at the front — he loves trains . |
| 8 | It means I carry or I take it with me . |
| 9 | Er , it 's like , it 's like the foreman on the shopfloor for some reason , there 's a er , in the systems or whatever , er , the warehouseman er , the night porter er , when he takes over , he knows what he 's doing , he knows what I want , because I 've spoken to him about it , erm , he knows what items I want to leave for stock people , erm , and Sue , the checkout manager , she 'll know if I want extra people on the shopfloor because we 're quiet , or I expect it to be quiet , erm , she knows where they 've got to be , and I 'll come back and review it with her . |
| 10 | Whenever that happens , rather than going back to the track I play something else that will fit , or I leave it as an improvisational section , so to speak . |
| 11 | Tired and confused after the journey , I followed the servant into a large building , where she left me in a sitting-room . |
| 12 | She put the sheet of paper in an envelope , addressed it clearly , added the word ‘ Urgent ’ and carried it down to the office , where she left it for collection and received instead the original and the photostats of her article . |
| 13 | Mildred slid him carefully into her pocket and raced up the stairs to her room , where she transferred him to a small box with holes in the lid which she had prepared specially for the journey . |
| 14 | Clare levered the coins off the counter , and carried her cup out into the small enclosure , where she balanced it on an unsteady iron table , her feet cushioned by a carpet of litter . |
| 15 | where she weave it like that ? |
| 16 | He might have been cut out of cardboard , she thought , as she led him across the hall and into the dining -room , where she introduced him to Susan . |
| 17 | During this period she herds stray animals to her seashore cave , where she feeds them during the cold months . |
| 18 | After her father 's death she moved to Petersfield , Hampshire , where she supported herself by washing clothes , brewing , and other types of manual work . |
| 19 | Eating and drinking is particularly good value — you can get a 6 course ‘ Mezes ’ meal , where you get lots of small dishes of Turkish delicacies for about £3 although a good bottle of wine may set you back 70p ! |
| 20 | It causes no pollution , either in terms of fuel consumption or noise , yet finding yourself suddenly cowering in the shadow of a huge coloured parachute at the top of a hill where you imagined yourself to be alone , bursts the illusionary balloon of solitude and remote wilderness for me . |
| 21 | Right , and you get them to something that you can deal with , because the one thing you can not deal with right , we want to think it over , it is n't matter where you take them to , right whether it 's the bathroom window , whether it 's the one in |
| 22 | We talk later in this chapter about the use of other people 's words , making the point that one problem with other people 's words is that they usually make more sense where they come from than where you put them in your essay . |
| 23 | And that if you do n't pick them up and put them back where you got them from , they are still there two weeks later , and the house looks a bit of a tip . |
| 24 | That means where you got it from . |
| 25 | He seemed to have come to the deep , still centre of the sea : a place where you felt nothing , where you saw nothing except the coal-black atoms that danced before your face and knitted up the dark . |
| 26 | Now , the beauty of this sort of explanation , where you have everybody on your side , when you are dealing with somebody who is unpopular , when you are all desperately anxious to find a scapegoat , is that your argument is unlikely to be at all jealously scrutinised . |
| 27 | I was like a Desperate Dan cartoon where you see him with his hair standing on end . |
| 28 | You have to care for them , which means starting from where they are in life , not where you want them to be , and taking their lives and lack of belief seriously . |
| 29 | The patches can then be located where you want them among the preamp 's memory locations ( or programs ) , and then called up by a MIDI pedal . |
| 30 | Use water wisely , putting it exactly where you want it with a Soakerhose . |