Example sentences of "where [pers pn] could [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you know where I could find details of box-office bookings ? ’ |
| 2 | I stopped two stout middle-aged women carrying laden shopping-bags and asked them if they knew where I could find rooms to rent . |
| 3 | ‘ … = where I could find Mr John Challow , ’ Ianthe said . |
| 4 | I would like to work where I could help others |
| 5 | Once Anne had accepted the fact that I was n't gon na work in the foreseeable future , and it was her choice that we stay , cos I gave her a clear choice , it was either move away where I could get work , or stay and suffer the wages of the dole like you know . |
| 6 | I 've heard it 's out for the Commie ( well , has been for years ) , and was wondering where I could get hold of a copy . |
| 7 | Not all of this data will be readily available but any ideas you have on where I could get answers are much appreciated . |
| 8 | It looks just like smalltown America — the kind of place where you could set Twin Peaks or Back To The Future 4 — but it 's bigger . |
| 9 | It looks just like smalltown America — the kind of place where you could set Twin Peaks or Back To The Future 4 — but it 's bigger . |
| 10 | One could almost go over there to do one 's weekly marketing — or on into Rouen , where the big market day is also on Tuesday , and from where you could bring home butter made from unpasteurized cream , great bowls of tripes à la mode , and duck pâtés , and baskets full of big round Breton artichokes for a tenth of the price we have to pay here . |
| 11 | Putting them to one side from the ordinary trainee where you could expect jobs and N V Q's to be the outcome , and for them to be treated as a special case . |
| 12 | oh yes , but not in the ordinary er there was a huge place , where you could put tables all round the tables , you see , and , and er it was a and er I liked it , I , when they were busy , you see , I used to , especially if they had an order for these hundreds of cups of tea , er , you see , I used to go down and give a hand then , I used to like it , you see , somebody would give a shout and I would come down from the office and and left them anyway and then er I heard of this job . |
| 13 | But she had been told where she could find Georgie early that evening . |
| 14 | Her gait slowed as Rain disappeared into Eliot 's office , then she asked Mona where she could find Miss MacQuillan . |
| 15 | She breathed a sigh of relief , and ran through to the living-room where she could hear Stephen 's voice . |
| 16 | She 's difficult to talk to , Penelope thought , moving towards a room where she could hear voices . |
| 17 | Margaret had taken a living-in job in the country where she could have Molly with her . |
| 18 | The only place where we could make cuts , without resetting the entire piece , was in the last paragraph . |
| 19 | It 'd be much nicer if we were in the position where we could write love songs . |
| 20 | there were very few places in the town where we could use telephones especially at night . |
| 21 | It was now time to call a halt for breakfast , so I asked the man where we could get water . |
| 22 | After Auschwitz , would you not expect Germans to take every conceivable care to stop German arms filtering through to where they could threaten Israel ? |
| 23 | Almost nine tenths , 88 per cent , of the people who had spent some time in a residential home were said to have had access to a telephone where they could make calls and people could telephone them . |
| 24 | She explored the cottage all over again , because it looked quite different — and even more attractive — in the clear light of a sunny February morning , and she found to her joy that there was a large garden at the back where they could grow vegetables . |
| 25 | The Benefits Agency spokesman said the discretionary nature of the Social Fund scheme permitted local officers a good deal of flexibility in cases where they could provide assistance . |
| 26 | Do as I say and follow me , ’ and Berger led the way towards the cafe where they could hear guitar music . |
| 27 | The George Emersons now had two girls and a boy and were beginning to want a real home — somewhere in the country where they could take root and unobtrusively found a dynasty . |
| 28 | At the end of a few minutes , he had agreed to get Landau , and she had come up with the names of banks and accounts for both Foster and Landau , and the place where he could lay hands on Pete Foster . |
| 29 | From this distance Bourke says he was unable to contact Blake by radio and therefore he would drive to Old Oak Common Lane , park his car and then walk across Old Oak Common with his radio to a point dose to the north side of the prison from where he could re-establish contact , lying down in the grass so that he would not be seen . |
| 30 | After Compline , the last service of the day , Corbett approached the Prior and asked him where he could meet Robert Bruce . |