Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I asked you earlier where I fitted into the assignment you said that I 'd find out soon enough . |
| 2 | where I squinted through the gap in the serving hatch |
| 3 | My first real contact with the military was when I went on a familiarisation course to the Parachute Regiment depot at Aldershot when I was fourteen , and spent two days living in the mess , where I looked around the regiment , met serving officers and had some basic interviews with retired Colonels , who were in charge of selecting the future leaders of the toughest regiment in the Army outside of the Special Air Service . |
| 4 | This was , at least , an improvement on an earlier pattern , where I went into the end-game with a lead of about 30 — and then lost on the black . |
| 5 | Anyway , back to Le Coq d'Or where I lay on the truckle bed and drifted off to sleep . |
| 6 | When I tired of writing press releases on new lube concepts I left Wartberg 's valve business to go to the Angstrom Corporation , where I worked on the launch of a new biscuit , the Pink Finger . |
| 7 | Where I worked in the university , if a woman came in covered in bruises , no one would say anything , although we all knew what had happened . |
| 8 | The Men came for me where I huddled in the marram grass and they took me back to the low cage . |
| 9 | I found the whisky , let myself out of the cellar and locked it , turned all the lights out , gave Mrs McSpadden the bottle , accepted a belated new-year kiss from her , then made my way out through the kitchen and the corridor and the crowded hall where the music sounded loud and people were laughing , and out through the now almost empty entrance hall and down the steps of the castle and down the driveway and down to Gallanach , where I walked along the esplanade — occasionally having to wave or say ‘ Happy New Year ’ to various people I did n't know — until I got to the old railway pier and then the harbour , where I sat on the quayside , legs dangling , drinking my whisky and watching a couple of swans glide on black , still water , to the distant sound of highland jigs coming from the Steam Packet Hotel , and singing and happy-new-year shouts echoing in the streets of the town , and the occasional sniff as my nose watered in sympathy with my eyes . |
| 10 | She then rebuilt the old hospital in Santa Cruz and opened a pharmacy there , where she looked after the sick of that area . |
| 11 | She managed to escape and ran to a lorry parked nearby where she banged on the door to attract the driver 's attention . |
| 12 | Her ‘ Spencer Special , ’ where she dived into the pool leaving barely a ripple , always attracted an audience . |
| 13 | Instead , she wandered into town , where she bought a bag of chips , well soused in vinegar and wrapped in newspaper ; she took the bag to her room , where she sat on the edge of the single bed , slowly eating chips in the dark and thinking . |
| 14 | I grinned then , I recall , and brought the stunter down fast and acute across the weeds and the water , the sand and the surf , scudding it in across the wind to jerk and zoom just before it hit the girl herself where she sat on the dune top holding and spasmodically jerking the string she held in her hand , connected to the sky . |
| 15 | With a brief wave Lindsey hurried along the corridor towards the consulting-room , where she sat at the desk , taking several deep breaths to compose herself before calling for her first patient . |
| 16 | Paul , her husband , generally left before seven and had lunch out with one of his friends , while she used her free day to take care of a thousand chores more annoying than the duties of her job : she had to go to the post office and fret for half an hour in a queue , go shopping in the supermarket , where she quarrelled with the saleswoman and wasted time waiting at the check-out , telephone the plumber and plead with him to be precisely on time so that she would n't have to wait the whole day for him . |
| 17 | The galloping granny , from Bristol , used to run the 800 yards and 4 x 400 relay for the Imperial Tobacco company where she worked on the shop floor . |
| 18 | We went youth hostelling for m the sort of the chapel choir , after When you grew up in chapel , then you were either found a job teaching , in the Sunday School , or you went into the choir . |
| 19 | ‘ You only need one person to say that he or she benefited from the product to lose the case , ’ she said . |
| 20 | and or she went to the door |
| 21 | It seems clear , however , that it would be possible in other similar circumstances for a police officer to detain such a person for what he or she did after the offence rather than for the crime itself . |
| 22 | Thus she used a stout stick which was nearly twice her height to walk across the court , or she leaned on the arm of the nearest grandchild or servant . |
| 23 | After reading some of the comments from people who saw the game or who listened on the radio , the above seems to be about as true reporting as you 'd expect from the NOTW . |
| 24 | It led to an abandoned fishing hamlet called Hamningberg , where we camped for the night in a grassy field studded with interesting saxifrages and other flowers . |
| 25 | That evening we left Fort St Nogent on a coach for the Gare de Lyons where we embarked for the south of France on an overnight express . |
| 26 | At midday Romany cut the engines , and Milhaez steered the barge into a narrow inlet where we moored between the bank and a low island of reeds and stunted palms . |
| 27 | At a place called Morro Chico there was a tiny inn where we sat around the stove ourselves . |
| 28 | Where we stopped at the junction . ’ |
| 29 | Then there came it think it was the gearbox or something went on the gar , you know , because I tow a caravan , and the car just would n't pull the caravan , and it was going to cost over a thousand pounds and that like . |
| 30 | It was self-service , and guests carried their food on little plastic trays to mucky tables , where they ate to the accompaniment of strident pop music . |