Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I got there Mr Kordell was with Herbert Chapman and we went into a Lyons tea shop , where I signed amateur for Arsenal . |
| 2 | She opened her eyes , smiled down where I stood waist-deep in water still — the smile itself a quick gasp on evening air — then she was upright , running along the jetty to where Edward waited with the towels . |
| 3 | It was an effort for Leonora to wish him goodnight , an even greater effort to walk upstairs slowly , instead of running headlong to her room , where she lay sleepless for hours , unable to get Penry Vaughan 's handsome , cynical face out of her mind . |
| 4 | Her body was found at her flat where she lived alone in Tewkesbury Walk , Newport , Gwent , on 1 July 1988 . |
| 5 | Any new ratepayer has six months to appeal from the date he or she became responsible for rates . |
| 6 | Deferred pension entitlements for employees who have left the STG or who leave prior to privatisation will be similarly protected . |
| 7 | Yet a disgruntled secretary , or one left unemployed by dismissal or the death or recall of his master , might easily be tempted to profit by the information he had acquired in his work . |
| 8 | In July 1842 , the master noted that James Paine , an able-bodied man , ‘ objects and refuses to attend divine worship on the grounds that he is of no persuasion , and that he will not attend in a place like this , where they act contrary to scripture in parting man and wife ’ . |
| 9 | He was a physician who , after qualifying in medicine in 1912 , worked for a time at University College Hospital , London , where he became interested in bacteriology and the developing discipline of immunology . |
| 10 | Joe Meek moved to North London and in 1960 he set up his own recording studios above a leather shop , where he produced dozens of hits … |
| 11 | He divided his time between Stainford and London , where he lived next to Dyers ' Hall at Thames Street . |
| 12 | Ben was allocated a council flat where he lived alone by choice . |
| 13 | He felt surprised by his own honesty in dropping the requested payment into the box and could not quite fathom his motive in lodging the card in the same envelope in his pocket where he kept those of Aphrodite and Silenus . |
| 14 | Half a mile away smoke still rose from Dangerfield 's machine , where he had crash-landed on fire after stopping a burst of tracer in the wing . |
| 15 | Later that sorry night , Ramsay came to Keith 's room , where he lay awake in pain . |
| 16 | Where it hangs loose in front it is given wide , shallow vertical folds , plastically carved , and these are crossed by sharp-cut diagonal pleats . |
| 17 | His Journal records his disgust with the " savage ignorance and wickedness " of the Newcastle colliers who assembled on Sundays to " dance , fight , curse and swear and play at chuck-ball , span-farthing , or whatever came next to hand " . |
| 18 | Although I know little of Madrid , I do know that the ring road around it is best driven with the accelerator pedal through the floor , like all those maniacal Spanish drivers in front and behind you , the steering wheel gripped tightly , eyes shut and prayers in profusion to the Almighty for safe exit from the maelstrom . |
| 19 | So dismal was it that I thought first of Byron 's prophetic poem of the death of light , and then of the lands that lie north of the line of the Arctic Circle . |
| 20 | It was through her that I became interested in life . |
| 21 | It was during this incident that I became aware of Husseys Hatches , as the Fire Brigade used the water from one of these , nearly opposite the Brown Street Baptist Church . |
| 22 | Butterflies possess idiosyncrasies that I find curious in creatures with the minimum of brain-cells . |
| 23 | ‘ There are certain songs now that I leave open for improvisation ; I play something different every night instead of playing the solo from the record . |
| 24 | You are perhaps aware ’ , wrote Gould grandly to William Swainson in January 1837 , ‘ that I have two of Mrs Goulds ’ brothers in Australia engaged in collecting the natural product of that fine country , nearly the whole of which are consigned to myself and that consequently I possess perhaps greater facilities than most persons for the production of a work of this description . |
| 25 | I 'd worked with Frank Stranahan and Bob Charles when he was an amateur , so I felt ready for Peter Thomson when it happened . |
| 26 | But you see once I get this over Marg , the worst 'll be over . |
| 27 | Although she inherited millions from film star Wayne , friends say she is not good at handling finances and the debts have mounted up . |
| 28 | He looked so handsome that she felt sick with nerves , weak with attraction . |
| 29 | He had taken no precautions during their love-making but she had assured him that she had that under control . |
| 30 | Shortly afterwards , over lunch at the Savoy , the daughter of du Maurier 's American publisher announced to Forster that she had hundreds of letters from Daphne to her mother , Ellen Doubleday . |