Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing I played two rounds of golf yesterday … ’ |
| 2 | They invited me to punk parties as noisy as tractor factories , where I swigged flat cans of beer , already shaken with a twist of cigarette butt . |
| 3 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 4 | But from my point of view what mattered most was that it bordered Abyssinia , where I hoped one day to be posted . |
| 5 | Trollope evidently shares Jane Austen 's preference for past community to present isolation ; but where she felt those sites to be alternatives , he knows that the first is a part of history . |
| 6 | Belvoir was not her only house , for her late husband the 9th Duke restored Haddon Hall where she took particular pleasure in the rose terraces . |
| 7 | She was educated at Handsworth Ladies College and at Newnham College , Cambridge , where she took both parts of the natural sciences tripos ( 1887 , 1888 ) , obtaining first-class honours . |
| 8 | Lesley , who is single , was taken straight to the operating theatre where she underwent immediate surgery on severe injuries to her stomach . |
| 9 | She was rushed to Northampton General Hospital where she underwent several hours of surgery , including a tracheotomy operation . |
| 10 | In 1876 she went to Girton College where she gained third-class honours in the mathematical tripos in 1880 , and showed her flair for experimentation and designing scientific instruments . |
| 11 | You could write something similar to the following example anywhere in your program where you wished this calculation to be carried out . |
| 12 | We eventually got away from the station and camped two hours later near a marsh , where we shot some duck for dinner , and two lily-trotters for our collection . |
| 13 | He took me to lunch at a discreetly ill-lit restaurant and then to an hotel on the Ile St Louis , where we passed two hours of the afternoon gratifying his fantasies . |
| 14 | It is a great pity that not one member of the Liberal Democratic party could be bothered to attend the European Standing Committee this morning , where we debated those matters for nearly two and a half hours . |
| 15 | Do n't you know that Freddie Nash is now sharing Major Hallett 's cottage , where we had that party before Christmas ? |
| 16 | Mr. Wilberforce and I agree that where we knew one instance of it thirty years ago , there are now a dozen or more . ’ |
| 17 | Contraction at just one tenth of this rate seemed small beer to astronomers , and was presented by the popular media ( where they took any notice at all ) as another example of a way-out scientific idea that had been undermined by more careful studies . |
| 18 | And they said you know th there should have been a way round it where they kept this couple in there . |
| 19 | I kept banging my way to and from the can , where they had incredible pictures of nude chicks front magazines all over the wall . |
| 20 | In London the situation was very similar to those of Glasgow and Edinburgh , particularly in that many deaf adults had been educated at the Old Kent Road Asylum where they received religious instruction from two earnest ministers , the Rev. Henry Mason , Rector of Bermondsey , and the Rev. John Townsend . |
| 21 | Known as Cadians , they founded a new homeland in the backwoods of south Louisiana , where they discovered bountiful supplies of game — rabbit , squirrel , pigeon and deer , and helpful native Indians who taught them how to make the most of local wild produce . |
| 22 | From 1934 he was responsible for the introduction on the LMS of substantial numbers of diesel-electric locomotives for heavy-duty service in marshalling yards , where they showed great economies over steam and were the forerunners of more than 1,400 of this type on British Railways . |
| 23 | The court heard that customs men later went to a Surrey hotel where they recorded several messages of people trying to contact Melms . |
| 24 | In 1991 the children were removed and placed elsewhere , where they maintained regular contact with their mother . |
| 25 | Where they contradicted each other in inessential points there might be room for debate and uncertainty . |
| 26 | For while she returned her kingdom to full doctrinal and liturgical conformity with Rome , many English Protestant exiles fled their homeland and took up residence in Strasbourg , Zurich , Emden , Frankfurt , and Geneva , where they gained first-hand experience of the Zwinglian and Calvinist forms of Protestantism , and became fully immersed in the Calvinist theology of grace and salvation . |
| 27 | His childhood was spent in Cranleigh , and he was educated at Edgeborough School , Guildford , where he revealed precocious talents as artist , poet , and sportsman , and at Christ 's Hospital , London . |
| 28 | In 1964 he founded the Glynn Research Laboratories , where he directed biochemical research until 1986 . |
| 29 | The evening meal had been re-scheduled for 8.30 p.m. ; and with time to spare , after throwing his own large hold-all on to the counterpane of his single bed , Ashenden joined a few of the other tourists in the Residents ' Lounge , where he took some sheets of the hotel 's own note-paper , and began to write a letter . |
| 30 | Shortly afterwards Howard left Stoke Newington and moved back to central London , to St Pauls Churchyard , where he owned several houses in the neighbourhood . |