Example sentences of "[conj] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This gentleman bocht the donkey fae MacGreigor — it was afore my day though — an it wes two or three days in the field at the front door . |
| 2 | That was long afore my day but th they used to always come to curtain market , aha . |
| 3 | I release my safety belt to hold you , dangerous ground , ground where my feet have wings of flame . |
| 4 | All behaviouristic theories of cognition are viciously third-personal , where that expression signifies , first , that they can not be applied to the first-person perspective and , second that our ability to apply them to the third person really rests on our bringing to bear first-person knowledge : as with rats in mazes , where my plain and unreduced apprehension of the rat 's environment enables me to see its grasp of that environment in terms of its behaviour within it . |
| 5 | Ordinary experience seems to indicate that brain position determines experience content : where my head is ( in space and in time ) is the most important determinant of the content of my consciousness . |
| 6 | The day I went up to university I left you all , country gentry all … country where my father was stifling . |
| 7 | Where My Word is unspoken . |
| 8 | He then said that he now had confirmation from the police and that I qualified for a transfer and would receive an offer for Govan ( where my dad is ) within a week . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ What happens is that maybe I 'll just see the shape of some chords , or where my fingers should be on the frets . |
| 11 | Dana and I slept together in the double bed in my bedroom , next to my parents ’ room , where my mother was sleeping with Aunt Lyallie . |
| 12 | She took me into the first-floor front room , where my father had already been laid out in his coffin . |
| 13 | Soon I had come out of the field and was walking along the path opposite where my home would be . |
| 14 | Across the landing which interrupted the downward curve of the stairs was a front bedroom where my youngest aunt slept until my grandmother took to her bed — and afterwards when left alone . |
| 15 | Now he 's got his arm round where my waist used to be . |
| 16 | But when Geoff Hamilton handed me a chunk of Barnsdale to turn into a well-planted garden , I had to put my money where my mouth was . |
| 17 | Looking round , I found the farm entrance , where my driver and young Mulverin the farmer both greeted me cheerfully . |
| 18 | If I can not go to my own home , let me have a home in some country where my people will not die so fast . |
| 19 | There are exceptional circumstances , such as my total castration or my taking vows as a monk , where my only residual fitness is that which accrues to me through my assistances to relatives . |
| 20 | It was one evening when I happened to be valeting him , Mr Charles told me he had come across my father some years earlier while a guest at Loughborough House — the home of Mr John Silvers , the industrialist , where my father served for fifteen years at the height of his career . |
| 21 | ‘ I really love my job , ’ he says , ‘ and that has meant giving up the security of local government to seek a wider role , putting my money and reputation where my mouth is . |
| 22 | Is my own lowly cottage , where my babe |
| 23 | It is as though I have left the dull class rooms of the world and the discordant sound of the trampling feet and I have reached a place far from men where my mind is moved by universal rhythms . |
| 24 | Imagine my horror when I found out that the fire had now spread to this building , where my father worked . |
| 25 | After tea — more washing up with Dad at the helm and little time was left before the whole family were off to Evensong at St. Martin 's where my father was a sidesman for a number of years . |
| 26 | The smith 's shop where my father worked was reached through a doorway at the right of the carpenter 's shop . |
| 27 | It was that inner voice that made me cringe as I lay sleepless on my lumpy mattress listening to the pogoing of the bedstead against the wall next door , where my co-tenants were pursuing their nightly quest for the elusive grail of Trish 's orgasm . |
| 28 | In recent times I have been able to go down to the hostel , where my good friend Richard Megson gives me the opportunity to wash in lovely hot water . |
| 29 | The sleeping-car attendant sighed deeply at so much opulent femininity and philosophically returned to his roomette , and I went on up the train into the next car , where my own bed lay . |
| 30 | But I do intend to do it , and if it comes off I suppose I should put my money where my mouth is and offer up my effort for your appraisal . |