Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1917–18 she served on the committee on post-war reconstruction , where she frequently clashed with Beatrice Webb . |
| 2 | Mia was driven to the Drumcondra clinic , where she instantly fell in love with rough , red-haired little Tip . |
| 3 | The first approach involved despatching specially selected officers into ‘ alienated neighbourhoods ’ and having them operate from ‘ storefront ’ mini-police stations , where they sometimes worked in teams , helping and advising marginal sections of society , like drug addicts and delinquent children . |
| 4 | I kept them to myself , where they constantly grew in depth and where they became merely a backdrop to my private obsession : home , family , school , everything . |
| 5 | Then , as if satisfied that there was no one about , he hurried across the glade , where he almost trod on Rosalind 's letter , which was lying face-upwards on the grass . |
| 6 | I have learned more than I ever knew about humility . |
| 7 | I experienced far more racism at primary school than I ever did at secondary , which was perhaps unusual . |
| 8 | Willi has done a better job with Georg than I ever did with Peter . |
| 9 | Some of the greatest guitar songs have been the riff songs , so I immediately thought of Paul Rogers . |
| 10 | But I should not have been sent straight from school to Somerville on Classics ; I wanted to swap to History but did not know enough , so I was encouraged to do P.P.E. I was bored by both Philosophy and Economics so I only worked at Politics ’ . |
| 11 | The other fighter came from Nottingham four years ago and had seen much worse than one ever saw at Oxford . |
| 12 | Do we not know more than we ever did about crowds , power , group behaviour , motivation , national and religious hysteria and so forth ? |
| 13 | We all had a similar colonial background and were desperate to ‘ fit in ’ and be accepted — so we never talked of racism directly . |
| 14 | Perhaps they had more confidence in Mortimer as a commander than they ever had in Edward II : Mortimer held the lordship of Trim ( County Meath ) in right of his wife and although he had been defeated by Edward Bruce in Meath in December 1315 , he had shown some skill in restoring order in Ireland after the Bruce invasion . |
| 15 | She knew that her father had two sisters , although he never kept in touch with them . |
| 16 | He had been with UNACO now for three years and although he still suffered from bouts of homesickness he never allowed those feelings to interfere with his work . |
| 17 | He would listen in , showing more powers of concentration than he ever did at work . |
| 18 | ‘ So he probably came to tea and forgot it , ’ said Camille . |
| 19 | However , Pakistan was accepted into the Non-Aligned Movement once it formally withdrew from CENTO in 1979 . |
| 20 | I knew she was n't far offshore , but I did n't know anything about the set of currents off Winter Marsh , and if I just rowed into darkness I might miss her altogether , and be carried anywhere . |
| 21 | I said , " Yes-sir ? " as if I still worked for Hatch & Hodges . |
| 22 | How would it look if I suddenly disappeared for weeks — leaving a gap that other people would have to fill — because my wife 's grandmother is ill on the other side of the world ? ’ |
| 23 | As far as the death grant goes , erm for a pensioner that would only be payable erm if somebody actually died within year of leaving pensionable service , due to ill health , and they were not in receipt of an infirmity pension . |
| 24 | Do n't blame me if you only read about Drayton and Taverham classes . |
| 25 | Classic lighting is ideal for creating atmosphere in traditional-style bedrooms , although if you often read in bed you may need to opt for a more practical design |
| 26 | Vigno , who had served with the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes , intimated that if we ever got to Corsica we would be expected to do it in under forty minutes . |
| 27 | If we really fell in love and then never saw one another again , it would take us a long time to get over it and forget . |
| 28 | As for some of these Territorial officers — temporary officers , he labelled them … about as likely to amount to anything if they ever went to war as a commercial traveller or a third rate comedian in a music hall . |
| 29 | But by the time of Charlemagne the majority of warriors were on horseback , though it is not clear if they actually fought from horseback or if they used the horses simply as rapid transport for traditional Frankish foot soldiers . |
| 30 | So letters were unearthly and invaluable , even if they only came from Barclays Bank . |