Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His son was educated at Winchester and Magdalene College , Cambridge , where he failed to take a degree , and preferred fast cars and horse-racing to the solitude of the bush . |
| 2 | He was educated at Harrow , won an exhibition to New College , Oxford , where he failed to take a degree , and finally went to Trinity College , Dublin ( BA and MA , 1919 ) . |
| 3 | This was the place where he had almost bowled Anna over many months before and where he enjoyed riding the horse at breakneck speed , disregarding anyone else who might chance to be on the path . |
| 4 | The next day he appeared at the Uxbridge Magistrates ’ Court where he admitted having the drug in his possession . |
| 5 | Sir Robert Muldoon , the former National Party leader and Prime Minister in 1975-84 , condemned the government 's welfare cuts and said on his weekly radio programme on Nov. 17 that he would leave Parliament ( where he had represented an Auckland constituency for over 30 years ) early in 1992 . |
| 6 | At the press conference , Waldegrave recalled a visit to a UK university , where he had noted a visitors ' book full of Japanese names . |
| 7 | He unfolded it carefully , took a stub of pencil from his ammunition pouch , and marked a cross where he had seen the enemy cavalry . |
| 8 | Where he had reached the summit , the cliff had disappeared : it had been excavated by explosions , it was a hole ten metres wide . |
| 9 | On his return from the United States , where he had attended the World Jewish Congress , Walesa announced on March 27 the formation of a 21-member council for Polish-Jewish relations . |
| 10 | Vulgar speculation about his love life usually enraged Richard ; there was still a mark on the pearl damask wall where he had hurled a glass of whisky on receiving the news that People magazine had voted him the World 's Sexiest Man of 1984 . |
| 11 | It took some further persuasion to elicit exactly where he had spent the hours in Newcastle . |
| 12 | Dr Lyons said Moore should have been escorted the morning following the cemetery incident when he left the home of a colleague where he had spent the night . |
| 13 | Where he had torn the dress from her shoulders the gentle swell of one breast gave promise of the advent of rich womanhood and he longed to cup it in his hand so that its sweet warmth rested against his own flesh . |
| 14 | The younger one of Lord Shelley 's sons had come via Windsor Castle where he had shared a dancing class with the Princesses . |
| 15 | There was this rather famous instance where he had to scrub the floor while Pamela and I were having a long and involved discussion , but I was told that people could n't take their eyes off him . |
| 16 | In addition , he had called at the Fleming house where he had got no reply to his bell-ringing . |
| 17 | Even where he does show an interest in ‘ education ’ it is , as we have seen , only as a preventive device aimed at the public at large . |
| 18 | Up to the fifth floor , then walk down to the third , where he 'd taken a couple of rooms . |
| 19 | The man , wearing just sunglasses to disguise himself , is reaching into a plastic bag where he claims to have a gun and a grenade . |
| 20 | The Cohen Committee admitted that these complaints were not altogether unfounded but all that has resulted is section 192 of the Act which invalidates provisions in trust deeds ( or elsewhere ) which purport to exempt a trustee from , or to indemnify him against , ‘ liability for breach of trust where he fails to show the degree of care and diligence required of him as a trustee having regard to the provisions of the trust deed conferring on him any powers , authorities or discretions . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Not in November , ’ Robert growled from the side table where he liked to carve the meat himself . |
| 22 | He said he had woken him up when they arrived at Linighan 's Harpenden home , where he refused to pay the £63 fare . |
| 23 | Does he also agree that , where he has extended the competence of the institutions of the European Community , we shall increasingly see , as we have seen in relation to Sunday trading and British Aerospace , the emergence of two forms of law — first , British law , which we encourage the population to obey and honour , and , secondly , European law , which we try to avoid — and thus we shall succeed in undermining the rule of law here ? |
| 24 | The South African , injured in a fall two weeks ago , has made a successful return to action , but still feels considerable pain in the lower part of his back where he has pulled a muscle . |
| 25 | The conduct of the consumer may also be relevant where he has put the product to a use for which it was not intended . |
| 26 | We paused at his favourite green , the 6th/12th , where he bent to stroke the surface : ‘ Feel that , pure velvet ’ . |
| 27 | I followed him through to my room , where he bent to light the lamp . |
| 28 | Using three dimensional imaging , he told Robodoc exactly where he wanted to put the implant before starting the five-hour operation . |
| 29 | I know a very distinguished gentleman at Windsor who 's reaching a certain age where he wants to put the Aston Martin in his will in case there may be a family war over its inheritance . |
| 30 | The writer means that she or he has discussed the poem 's meaning , but the sentence literally says that the next stanza discusses the poem 's beginning ( an unintended meaning ) . |