Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] was " in BNC.
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| 31 | However , Albert got over that , and so did Jim , and they went into the sitting-room , where Bella was sitting in mini-gear frighteningly too young for her , with office folders on her lap . |
| 32 | David and Olga are both retired from Cambridge University where David was a principal lecturer and member of the music faculty and where Olga was a music librarian . |
| 33 | The rally developed into clashes with police as demonstrators in the area near where Bhutto was staying demanded a meeting with her . |
| 34 | Either , therefore , Oswiu did become king in 642 , as Bede says , or Bede was able to date the council of Whitby to 664 by reference to the eclipse and plague of that year and he calculated Oswiu 's regnal year at this point for himself on his own assumption of a succession for Oswiu in 642 . |
| 35 | Was that meant to be that people like me should be doing spot checks , Richard should tell people like me to do spot checks or Richard was going to do spot checks ? |
| 36 | There was a strong chase behind and the leaders never got more than a 25-second gap but they held on to the finish where Scott was strongest up the hill to 21 win by a second with Downey a further 14 seconds back . |
| 37 | Honeybeer Mead fell at the seventh , where Omerta was pulled up because jockey Lorcan Wyer feared he had broken down . |
| 38 | Panting breathlessly , she turned from the door and moved through to the hall , where Donna was trying to make her way down the stairs . |
| 39 | Where Richard was during these years of military and diplomatic manoeuvring we do not know , but it is a reasonable guess that he was with his mother , since Aquitaine was her duchy and it was by her wish that it was to be made over to him . |
| 40 | His homeward journey took him via Mainz , where he gave a concert before the elector ; Mannheim , where Figaro was being performed ; Augsburg , Munich and Linz . |
| 41 | Connections : I 'd seen Nevil at Sedgeley House ; I 'd seen Jo at the Mimosa Club where Nevil was supposed to work , or at least beat up barmen . |
| 42 | Moet & Chandon was poured over it . |
| 43 | She turned from him now and looked towards the house door where Millie was standing . |
| 44 | In 1918 Lymn & Rambush was taken over by the Power-Gas Corporation of Stockton-on-Tees . |
| 45 | Yeltsin said that he had lured the coup leaders out of the Kremlin , where they were protected , by challenging them to go to Foros , the Black Sea resort where Gorbachev was being held , to get a statement from Gorbachev to confirm their claim that he was unable to carry out his duties . |
| 46 | Right : The family in the living room at their home in Malibu — a far cry from London 's East End where Pat was born |
| 47 | Rosa 's susceptibilities could n't have worried him overmuch where Didi was concerned , Luce thought waspishly . |
| 48 | They had returned to the Operations Room , where Bernice was surprised to hear Ace 's voice — as far as anyone knew she was recovering with the rest of her party on Moloch — and even more surprised to hear it raised in anger and directed at — of all people — the Doctor . |
| 49 | Leventhorpe and Ashton , receivers of Knaresborough and Pickering ( where Warwick was steward ) , actively supported the exiled Edward IV . |
| 50 | Leventhorpe and Ashton , receivers of Knaresborough and Pickering ( where Warwick was steward ) , actively supported the exiled Edward IV . |
| 51 | She moved into Fife to be near the Forth estuary , where Thorfinn was oftenest to be found . |
| 52 | A friend of mine , who ministered to her late in life , gained the impression , from one or two things she let drop , that , contrary to what has been stated , Eliot did indeed go to Northumberland House , the nursing home where Vivien was looked after . |
| 53 | Did they know now … everyone here … about her … where Benedict was … and that other , Kirtlington , was he … ? |
| 54 | The walls of the police cell where Tepilit was held are still visible . |
| 55 | She tipped the rice into a pan and put it on the top on a low number and retreated to the living room where Alan was sprawled on the sofa reading the copy of a Sunday newspaper they had collected from a garage shop next to the pub . |
| 56 | I was glad that I knew exactly where Nigel was . |
| 57 | When he re-emerged , the others had adjourned to the kitchen , where Ronni was helping Agnese arrange stuffed salami slices on a plate , while a couple of young girls , specially recruited from the neighbourhood , busily chopped and whipped and blended , and Filippo polished a mountain of crystal glasses . |
| 58 | All the more ironic , too , because I woke up this morning feeling bloody marvellous after a really late and heavy night with the TV and the B & F. Was the phenomenon a new jet-lag deal , or the terminal mutiny of my whole bodybag ? |
| 59 | Salvation Army missionary history included illness and tragedy , but it also had its success stories like Howard Institute where Eva was heading . |
| 60 | Where Benny was dark-haired with the characteristic Ryan dark blue eyes and full-lipped mouth , Garry was the opposite . |