Example sentences of "[subord] [noun prp] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The centre manager later resigned after failing to stop the case going to court where Ben was put on probation . |
| 2 | Bill had had his own small share of this sometimes useful refusal to recognise awkward truths , particularly where Marcus was concerned . |
| 3 | There seemed to be quite a lot of turn from the end where Philippe was bowling but at my end there seemed to be no life at all . |
| 4 | An exception to this was the reporting of blood in motions , where 5-ASA was significantly better . |
| 5 | The series recalled a daring war-time raid by the Allies on Singapore harbour , where Bernard was stationed in 1946 following the Japanese surrender . |
| 6 | The questions tumbled from him as he went hand in hand with Beth , down the stairs and into the kitchen , where Peggy was soon caught up in the excitement . |
| 7 | In a sense , just as out and out dementia is less interesting than neurosis and eccentricity , so the music of these episodes , with their rather obvious distortions and wrong attributions of earlier themes , is less gripping than the Passacaglia , where Grimes was still somewhat in control of his faculties . |
| 8 | He passed the barred windows of Edwin 's studio ; the only light in the building came from an upstairs room , the living-room , where Beryl was almost certainly sitting and brooding alone . |
| 9 | Rosa showed him into the living-room , where Luce was waiting with mixed feelings . |
| 10 | Andy Norman , who 's a sort of Sam Goldwyn of our athletics , spotted this key to his character years ago during a wait at Helsinki airport where Christie was hanging around for the last plane on a ticket about one grade up from cargo . |
| 11 | His cases were apt to be commonplace affairs , or at least to begin as such , as opposed to the affairs of state that occupied Holmes in his latter years , and where Holmes was tall and hawk-faced Hewitt was stoutish , of average height and had a round , smiling face . |
| 12 | There was a particularly piquant episode when it had been reported to him that a meeting had allegedly taken place somewhere in the country , where Jenkins was supposed to have organised his cabal . |
| 13 | Joseph followed Suit with Dong , and when the commotion died own and they had bidden the Annamese boys goodnight , he and Paul stripped off their shirts and walked over to the bamboo skinning platform where Chuck was already back at work on his buffalo hide . |
| 14 | ‘ Sit down , C.W. , ’ Kolchinsky said , waving towards the black leather sofa where Sabrina was sitting . |
| 15 | They lived at 3 Windmill Street , Lad Lane , Deansgate , where William was born . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Anne wept for him and for Kathleen , who must be told the news , and decided that she must definitely find out where Kathleen was and visit her . |
| 18 | Where Ephraim was no one knew . |
| 19 | He spoke over my head to the scullery door , where Ewen was refilling the kettle . |
| 20 | The law stated that the Chechen republic would be considered " after the settlement of the crisis in the republic " , where Dudayev was under pressure from his opponents . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The rally developed into clashes with police as demonstrators in the area near where Bhutto was staying demanded a meeting with her . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Honeybeer Mead fell at the seventh , where Omerta was pulled up because jockey Lorcan Wyer feared he had broken down . |
| 26 | Panting breathlessly , she turned from the door and moved through to the hall , where Donna was trying to make her way down the stairs . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She turned from him now and looked towards the house door where Millie was standing . |