Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother had been taken ill suddenly and at once removed to hospital , where she died within a few days . |
| 2 | Faye had been taken to Labour and Delivery , where she waited in a private room for Dr Greene 's arrival . |
| 3 | Publication paved the way for an exciting tour of lectures , in the UK , New Zealand and her native Australia , culminating in the award at Sydney University — where she graduated with a double first in mathematics and physics in 1939 . |
| 4 | On impulse , she bought a recently published history of the region under the Occupation and took it to a pavement café , where she sat under a gaudy sunshade , idly sipping coffee and glancing through her book , but finding the passing show around her far more diverting . |
| 5 | She had for a while become a Monotype operator , on one of the " women 's machines " , and also remembers " trying to do imposition " and doing a little display work in one mainly jobbing firm where she worked for a short time . |
| 6 | Luciana Mottola Colban discussed the plans with Danièle Giraudy , one of the minds behind the Pompidou Centre , where she worked in an educational role for eight years , before becoming director of the Musée Picasso at Antibes , and then moving on to the Musée des Arts Decoratifs as Director in 1991 . |
| 7 | Should you decide not to accept the above major changes you may cancel your booking and we refund all monies paid and , where you advised of a major change within eight weeks of departure , issue you with compensation of £10 per person . |
| 8 | Old Stevenson would go spare if he knew , and I 'm not certain whether he 'd try and get me moved as a danger to junior staff , or you moved as a wicked woman . |
| 9 | It was common practice , for example , for a brothel-keeper brought before a court to claim that he or she belonged to a privileged nationality . |
| 10 | It suggests that a human being could in theory obtain all the food he or she needed from a well-tended patio ! |
| 11 | We were jolted from the Delta to the coast , where we disappeared into a giant galvanised iron shed . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , he has not honoured the spirit of the words that he used in Committee , where we engaged in a long debate about the value of the assets and the effect on the workers . |
| 13 | We were glad to reach Rangoon which at that time of the year , early March , was very hot , and so Pop sent us up to Taungin-in the Shan States where we stayed with a delightful elderly American missionary , Miss Hughes . |
| 14 | The flaps stood up on either side of her ankle , and were laced together where they met in a stiff ridge over her foot . |
| 15 | A national survey of parent education and support found that all too often parents were seen as falling into one of two camps : either they were coping adequately and were considered to need no assistance , or they fell below an accepted level of ‘ good parenting ’ and became the focus of immediate state intervention ( Pugh and De'Ath , 1984 ) . |
| 16 | A member of the Eugenics Education Society , the Clerical and Medical Committee of the BMA — where he campaigned for a stronger moral lead from the profession — and the National Council for Combating Venereal Disease , he moved freely between religious , political and scientific spheres . |
| 17 | He was on permanent peg 2 in Hollinhey Bay where he tipped with an open-ended swimfeeder and gozzer maggot in six feet for a netful of skimmer bream . |
| 18 | He thought of her on the night train to Newcastle ( where he knew of a kindly , broadminded landlady who would see her through her trouble– , and shuddered sympathetically . |
| 19 | Afterwards , the actor was swept from the courtroom and along the corridors , closely pursued by screaming fans and on to the court steps , where he said in a prepared statement : ‘ This has not been a case about homosexuality and I resent any suggestion that it was . |
| 20 | He persuaded her to bring her husband home , where he died within a few weeks . |
| 21 | He threw out a hand , clutching at empty air , then fell backwards , tumbling head over heels down the steps , finally crashing to a stop at the bottom , where he lay in a spreading pool of blood . |
| 22 | Fred would listen patiently until he could stand no more and then depart to the small back yard , where he sat on an upturned tea-chest and vowed that one day he would forget how efficient his kitchen hand was and just do away with her . |
| 23 | Between 1647 and 1649 he was based in The Netherlands , where he acted as a major source of intelligence on economic and scientific affairs . |
| 24 | He was educated at Ealing County Grammar School , where he was awarded a state scholarship and a minor open scholarship to Christ 's College , Cambridge , where he graduated as a senior optime in the mathematical tripos ( part ii ) in 1935 . |
| 25 | He was educated at Shrewsbury School ( 1893–8 ) , where he was captain of cricket and head of the school , and at Christ Church , Oxford , where he graduated with a third class in classical honour moderations in 1900 . |
| 26 | It had been run nose-first into the boat house where it lay like a huge , sleek beast in an undersized pen , the deep V of the forward end tucked under the gallery on which the three of them were standing . |
| 27 | Her eyes had become focused on the firm line of his lips , and a scalding message raced into her belly where it clenched in a strange , anticipatory tingle . |
| 28 | We scrambled over the chockstone of the Eye onto the plateau and wandered over shimmering snowfields to drink from the icy waters of the Garbh Uisge where it emerged from a shadowy blue tunnel before tumbling from the plateau . |
| 29 | No security dealer may deal in securities where it acted as an issuing house or in securities issued by itself , or in securities issued by another company where the trader holds an equity interest in excess of 10 per cent . |
| 30 | It then settled to the seafloor , below the level of wave action , where it accumulated as an enriched iron deposit . |