Example sentences of "[subord] a [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly there is no liability if a railway company , acting upon A 's directions , carries B's goods , honestly believing that A has B's authority to give such directions or , of course , where a finder removes them to a place of safety . |
| 2 | There are seven discussion lists on the network including RESPONSE where a child makes her or his first introductory contact , and KIDCAFE and KIDACT where the discussion and dialogue occur . |
| 3 | People do not always observe the principle , of course , but where a speaker flouts it , the hearer will suspect she has a reason . |
| 4 | She was delighted that the coffee was real and that I had used a glass jug on a silver stand , where a nightlight kept it steaming . |
| 5 | She is now in Towers Hospital , Leicester , where a spokesman said they expected the family to break the news to her in the next few days . |
| 6 | Before they were due to begin , Eliot travelled once again to America — first to his birthplace St Louis , where a heatwave affected him disagreeably , and then on to Cambridge where he spent two weeks with his relatives before travelling to Connecticut and New York . |
| 7 | Children were carried shoulder-high to the road , where a bus took them to a seafront hotel . |
| 8 | Fr Cunningham was born in India and went to school in the North-East , where a priest suggested he consider going into the ministry . |
| 9 | Heaps of spoil lay between Stags Fell and the road , so we picked our way through them and down by a wall to the road , following a pleasant series of falls through Shaw Gill Wood above Hardraw Force for a while before hitting the road again where a footpath took us down through flower-spattered meadows to Hardraw . |
| 10 | A demand is made when and where a letter containing it is posted ( Treacy , by a 3:2 majority ) , and probably continues to be made until it is read by the victim ( Treacy 5:0 , but obiter ) . |
| 11 | ‘ In places this size , you come away saying it would take more than a day to see them , ’ said Mr Craig . |
| 12 | ‘ It would take more than a ring to get me into your bed , ’ she retorted furiously . |
| 13 | If others can see them as an engine driving innovation around the world , rather than a sump draining it off , they may find there is much to gain . |
| 14 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 15 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 16 | But his omission is because no northern commissions were appointed — something more likely to reflect a readiness to wait for Gloucester 's advice than an intention to snub him . |
| 17 | But his omission is because no northern commissions were appointed — something more likely to reflect a readiness to wait for Gloucester 's advice than an intention to snub him . |
| 18 | He had heard nothing more of the plane until a newspaper phoned him the following day , Sunday afternoon . |
| 19 | Pamela Bothwell , of Farnham in Surrey , was having pouring problems with defective china teapots until a friend suggested she contact Wedgwood direct . |
| 20 | ‘ I had n't even made the connection until a friend mentioned he had seen Tim in the papers with all the Princess Anne business . ’ |
| 21 | Once a bacterium has appeared on the screen , it remains there until a protozoon approaches it and eats it . |
| 22 | I did n't take it seriously until a holiday took me to the Blakeney area of north Norfolk in 1974 . |
| 23 | Wounded men were groaning quietly , and a crippled grypesh bubbled with pain until a sailor finished it off . |
| 24 | ‘ He made his way along the road until a colleague told him to sit down on the pavement . |
| 25 | Rufus just went looked like a vampire attacked her . |
| 26 | If a thief steals it , you could be giving him an open invitation to your home ! |
| 27 | If a character picks it up , then all hell is suddenly let loose ( so to speak ) . |
| 28 | I decided , for example , that if a parent told me they had dreamt about having a ‘ Down 's baby ’ before the birth — in the medical literature , this is a classic after-the-event self-deception — they had in fact had such a dream . |
| 29 | Personally I do n't care at what stage of sexual intercourse you 're at , if a women says I want to stop now , then you stop now and that 's it . |
| 30 | If a sector collapsed it would be likely to take ‘ its region ’ with it . |