Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Another thing-if I ca n't keep my works here , where am I gon na jack up ? ’ |
| 2 | somewhere cool , where I ca n't watch it . |
| 3 | In the middle of the borders , where I ca n't reach without treading on the soil , I grow shrubs and perennials that need hardly any attention during the year . |
| 4 | Where I ca n't see any , it 's gone , where gone , where is it gone you show me ? |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't leave me here , where I ca n't find you ! |
| 6 | Because it was before just before we moved the offices but it 's kicking around somewhere in an envelope with my name on the front of it but where I would n't know . |
| 7 | My dream is to be a housewife , perhaps in France or the Canary Islands , where I would n't have to think of work or money and could go on excursions to supermarkets . |
| 8 | I mean even today he 'd made a mistake on that thing and you spotted it where I would n't have done . |
| 9 | The brake and clutch are too close together for my modest size sevens , and there 's a huge foot-rest where I would normally expect a clutch pedal . |
| 10 | Or let my Lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely Tower Where I may oft outwatch the Bear . |
| 11 | ‘ I mean , this is where I live , where I 'll always live . ’ |
| 12 | I hope I can get plain sewing work enough where I need not spoil my fingers , but if I ca n't , I hope to mae my hands as red as blood pudding and as hard as a beechen trencher to accommodate them to my condition . |
| 13 | There is no place you could go where I could n't reach you . |
| 14 | Although it 's interesting to hear the difference between these amps with a signal source as stable as the A2 , there was n't one where I could n't produce the desired sound simply by tweaking the combo 's own EQ . |
| 15 | You wore a damnably provocative outfit , made sure you draped yourself where I could n't help seeing you . ’ |
| 16 | I think you need to look again at the bit I 've marked above where I could n't understand it , and try to clear up the problem . |
| 17 | He braked in the slow corners , where I could not overtake , then on the straight , he accelerated and drove away , ’ he said . |
| 18 | I would sing to myself , perfectly content to be alone in my own dream world , imagining myself on television receiving an award for beating a world record and I would see my name and picture in the ‘ Guinness Book of Records ’ on the high bookshelf in my brother 's room where I could not reach it , and yet , through all those mornings of endless riding round the yard , I never once counted just how many times I had ridden around to see if I had beaten the previous morning 's record , so sure was my conviction of success ! |
| 19 | If I could get a home where my kids could grow up with daily fear and where I could also help my father , I could push this hell out of my mind and start afresh with my family . |
| 20 | Where I could also spend a great deal of time talking about our common enemies , our mutual friends and some of the similarity and our aims for world peace and again , I 'm gon na leave that for the statesmen and the politicians . |
| 21 | He expects a place in a Labour cabinet : Chief Whip for a short time , perhaps , then a portfolio of his own ‘ something where I could really help the North . ’ |
| 22 | things that cause me blocking , bondage , fear , sin , shortcoming ( where I will sometimes need another 's help especially if they involve my past . |
| 23 | Where I can not advise I can condole and communicate , which doubles joy , halves sorrow . |
| 24 | God help me , I hope I still do ’ — she clicked off the light — ’ where I can still find it . |
| 25 | I could n't find a way round it and when someone came in and said , ‘ that sounds great , but can you get me a pure sound where I can actually recognise what guitar is being played , whether it 's clean or distorted ? ’ |
| 26 | A woman from another tribe might not easily fit into her partner 's home environment , where she would not know the language and where the local women might not accept her . |
| 27 | Sloane introduced her to Isaac Rand , the Demonstrator of Plants at the Physic Garden , who advised her to live near it where she would find the plants needed and where she would certainly have met Miller and Ehret . |
| 28 | In particular the special garden for the blind was her favourite , where she would gently rub the sweet-scented leaves and herbs and flowers between her fingers and recall their names — the names she knew so well from the allotment we had had in South Shields . |
| 29 | He was her sole reason for getting up at all , the only incentive to clothe and feed herself and drag herself from her bedroom where she would much prefer to stay . |
| 30 | Where she need never think of him again . |