Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I was promoted to assistant cashier at the Wandsworth branch where I had to deal with the toll accounts to go to head office as well as the share accounts and the dividends . |
| 2 | And all the time , she thought as she sat at her desk nursing the remains of her hangover , Angy had been dead in her little one-room flat , alone and open-eyed , lying where she had fallen with the knife in her throat and her lifeblood flooding her lungs . |
| 3 | She was exhausted , and her bruises , where she had tumbled on the floor , ached uncomfortably . |
| 4 | None of them knew that she had been with the FBI for two years , where she had specialized in the use of firearms , before joining UNACO three years ago . |
| 5 | And so it was that on the first Monday after New Year , about midnight , we found ourselves on an icy road in County Cavan heading for the checkpoint , having just driven up from Dun Laoghaire , where we had disembarked from the Holyhead ferry . |
| 6 | From there we went in a funny little train with open trucks which fascinated Tim , until we got to a railway junction where we had to wait on the station for some hours for another train to take us to Calcutta . |
| 7 | I could even see Conchis , who was sitting where we had sat on the terrace the night before , apparently reading . |
| 8 | You remember in France , the er they made you where we kept walking round the table and er she sa , anyway said er fish soup ? |
| 9 | James , however , held the unwavering view that it was amongst the weak and the exploited where one had to look for the root of historical change . |
| 10 | All of the sample of Rowdies were able to plot very accurately where they had stood on the terraces over the last few years , who they had been with , and where they expected to be in the future . |
| 11 | Unlike the increases of the early 1930s , this jump was caused by the revival of stealing networks , mainly in those areas where they had prevailed in the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | Elisabetta was asking her something ; it was about the fireworks last year in the city , off the old harbour wall where they had reflected in the sea . |
| 13 | Oppression lay on me like a dead beast , not gaunt and stiff-legged like the animals which lay where they had dropped along the desert road , but soft and smothering like something from which the breath had only just gone . |
| 14 | The Nez Perce reached the Missouri on 23rd September , where they asked to trade with the fifteen soldiers at Cow Island Landing supply station . |
| 15 | Sukarno was sent to Surabaya , where he experienced loneliness and sought shelter in the Theosophical Society library where he became acquainted with the great Europeans from Rousseau to Marx . |
| 16 | He had seen them at the County Show , where he had gone for the rabbits , all those girls with plaits and scrubbed faces and clean gloves , doing an exhibition ride . |
| 17 | After months of negotiations between the Russian , Chilean and German authorities the former East German leader , Erich Honecker , was flown on July 29 from Moscow ( where he had lived in the Chilean embassy since December 1991 — see pp. 38687-88 ; 38782 ) to Berlin where he was imprisoned . |
| 18 | Grandfathers and coal-hewing cousins , brothers and the front row of Neath , Homeric schoolteachers and sopranos whose voices had a bell in every tooth made their entrance on to the Oxford stage , mixed in with chorus girls from Cardiff , waterfront villains from Liverpool and the twenty-two-carat glitz of the West End , where he had opened in The Druid 's Rest in January 1944 with fires in the sky at night , bombs falling from the Luftwaffe and pubs and clubs burning excitement under the blackout . |
| 19 | An example of mistranslation occurred when President Kaunda returned from the Singapore Commonwealth Conference in 1970 , where he had clashed with the British prime Minister over British arms sales to South Africa . |
| 20 | Well , I waited up until three o'clock in the morning and he crawled in with footmarks all over his nice new suit where he 'd fallen on the floor and let everybody trample over him , blood pouring down his shirt from a head wound , a balloon tied round his neck and a paper hat on . |
| 21 | The haze of his first cigarette clouded the room briefly and in the streak of light from the curtains he saw the heaped clothes and the mark on the hotel carpet where he 'd knocked over the glass of water . |
| 22 | William Joyce did the same , without such assistance , and entered his name for Battersea Polytechnic , where he proposed to study for the intermediate examination of the London University BSc degree . |
| 23 | Before Rincewind could stop him the dragonrider had leapt from the creature 's back to land on the platform , where he stood grinning at the wizard 's discomfiture . |
| 24 | ‘ Thank you , ’ he gritted , then strode towards the water 's edge where he stood staring across the river . |
| 25 | The snow made horizontal lines of white where it had lodged between the timbers . |
| 26 | And this , in spite of some effort on my part to prevent it , led to the subject of science fiction , and where it had gone since the original efforts of Swift and Verne and H. G. Wells . |
| 27 | She pushed back her hair where it had slipped from the bandanna , then tried to shrug off the tension with a sigh . |
| 28 | So far discussion has been limited to discussing the beneficiary 's ability to recover the trust property where it had passed into the hands of a third party : in principle the beneficiary was able to follow it , but his claim could be barred depending on the nature of the acquisition by the third party . |
| 29 | I was carved up by a let-me-through Porsche , with a chap at the wheel chatting into his Deutsche Telekom mobile phone , and then caught up with the car again a few kilometres further on , where it had slithered on the wet cobbles and collided with an antique tram . |
| 30 | Mr Peter Bergg , the Liberal candidate , said he knew of at least four houses where it had happened including the party 's own offices in Coniscliffe Road . |