Example sentences of "[subord] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where once they lived on a beach now their home is part of a toxic wasteland . |
| 2 | Where once they flew in such flocks that they threw shadows over the earth , they now survive in a few straggling colonies . |
| 3 | But it also has to provide the means by which a modern society provides houses and gardens — which the British love — where once they huddled in two-up-two-downs and the spec-built terraces which pre-dated the loathed Sixties ‘ slums in the skies ’ . |
| 4 | I think he 'd want to have some kind of little business going where if he wants to he can go off And then he can go off and pick it up and |
| 5 | Where if you go with me , then you can put it in the car . |
| 6 | And er I remember going to the doctor 's with me Mother and where as we sat in the surgery which was packed , eventually the old doctor come out of the door old . |
| 7 | So I said well you know , I ca n't just wind it up over the next six months , I said er what I wan na do I said is erm I got ta carry it on for that transit for that Orion till I finished anyway so it 's got ta go another year so I said well what I 'm feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said , he said , if I 'd said tomorrow , if I had finished the whole the tomorrow I 've got ta buy a car I can buy it finance so I 'm gon na get no tax relief on the H P I get no depreciation no nothing like that I said so at least if I still self employed I can if I have the sort of two or three vehicles or whatever three , four , five vehicles but I said at least I can have some erm and I can then sort of they would be more utilised , where as I said at the moment we got more vehicles than we really need to keep full capacity so he said yeah , yeah fair enough then . |
| 8 | They are generally more interested in questions of taste and convenience and price than where it comes from , ’ he says . |
| 9 | stop it , so so he had to erm just talk to our solicitors this morning and try and get this sorted out between the two solicitors . |
| 10 | This month , for no particular reason except that we felt like it , we offer a celebration of the word , from the P-funky smile of The Afros ( aboe ) to the activism of the X-Clan , from Monie Love 's glorious pop to Gang Starr 's jazz variation . |
| 11 | To that extent they ought to have wide circulation , except that they depend on the kind of painstaking preparation that Knussen had given them — the music sounded taught and nurtured rather than merely rehearsed . |
| 12 | Relatively little is known of the first great temples , which were built between 2000 and 1900 BC and destroyed by earthquakes in 1700 BC , except that they stood on the same sites as the later temples . |
| 13 | Whereas , in a crystal we may choose the axes of symmetry , in an amorphous polymer there is by definition no symmetry and all we know about the atom in a chain is where its topological nearest neighbours are but not where its spatial neighbours are , except that they lie within a " van der Waals radius ' of the chosen atom . |
| 14 | I have never understood why she was criticised by the Opposition for speaking up for Britain , but I am not exactly clear about their present position , except that they seem to be claiming that they can negotiate better conditions than the Government , despite their failure when in government in 1975 to negotiate proper terms for our entry . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm not probing , you know , Joe , but we 've been together months now , nine of them , in fact , and I know no more about you now than on the day we met , except that you come from the wilds of Northumberland . |
| 16 | I can think of no way round this dilemma except that you come in person and explain to her that it is an entirely business-like arrangement . |
| 17 | Except that she became with child , and Robert — her husband , you must know , who was a brute with a terrible temper ! — refused to acknowledge it as his own . |
| 18 | I had nothing against Dr Hill , except that he seemed to me an entirely incongruous appointment that Harold had made for the wrong reasons . |
| 19 | Well , that was because — but , try as she could , there seemed to be no other reason except that he wanted to . |
| 20 | Nothing is known about his early life , except that he graduated from the University of Seville with a bachelor 's degree in logic and philosophy . |
| 21 | In them he isolates the main events of the Passion story for attention in particular ways in the sequence in which they appear in the Hours , except that he begins with the agony in the garden not included there . |
| 22 | Except that it seemed to him rather funny . |
| 23 | There is a striking analogy here with crystal growth , except that it happens in two dimensions , not three . |
| 24 | Clause 4 has the same wording , except that it applies to the chief inspector for Wales . |
| 25 | Good news , except that it costs at least 10p more than other stoneground wholemeal loaves . |
| 26 | A further group of works and not even the relevant authorities know how many , except that it runs into hundreds of thousands are ‘ notified ’ ; that is , they may not even be lent , restored or sold within Italy , let alone exported , without the permission of the authorities . |
| 27 | Except that I had in some way to justify myself . |
| 28 | Except that I hope to God they let Sam go . ’ |
| 29 | For half a second you might have thought his fist had smashed me across the room , except that I follow through my dive into a roll and end up squatting on the floor , eight feet away , with the pistol pointing straight at his guts . |
| 30 | Far better that workers adopt an ‘ I ’ m all right Jack ’ mentality coupled with the chance to make a bit on the side than that they go on strike and make demands for higher wages in their main jobs . |