Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were still talking when I continued on my way back to my roomette where I sat in comfortable privacy for a while reading the timetable and also reflecting that although I still had no answers to the old questions , I now had a whole crop of new ones , the most urgent being whether or not Filmer had already known the Youngs were friends of Ezra Gideon . |
| 2 | where I stand in another life , |
| 3 | Claire took part in the European Junior Masters in Brussels in May , a tournament held for national champions , where she finished in third place . |
| 4 | It'a away at Man City and considering the last two visits to Maine road where we let in 4 goals each game , Is there any chance of us winning this game ? considering also that we did n't win any away games last season . |
| 5 | No systematic attempt is made at this point to resolve the many doubts about the details of Hocazade 's career , particularly the dates of his various appointments , since his career impinges on those of a number of Muftis and the conflicts are more appropriately discussed in detail where they arise in these contexts . |
| 6 | But they are for ever moving and , where they meet in head-on collision , in what is known as a subduction zone , they produce one of the great geological dramas of the planet . |
| 7 | But at Allen Street , where he lived in considerable poverty , he insisted on his independence , cooked all his meals on a gas ring in his room and refused to accept any hospitality from Minton . |
| 8 | From Westminster Hotel School , Michael Hirst joined Forte in 1964 as an executive trainee , where he worked in several departments of the organisation . |
| 9 | Isotelus is typical of the North American continent , where it occurs in many localities . |
| 10 | The Royal Commission on Capital Punishment which reported in 1953 ( Cmnd. 5932 ) examined the experience of countries throughout the world where the death penalty has been abolished , restored , abolished again or where it existed in some parts and not in others . |
| 11 | I prefer artwork , although I specialise in fine china and porcelain . |
| 12 | Although I concentrate in this chapter on sexual difference and on cultural and racial differences in the last chapter , it is worth remembering that in some contexts they interrelate . |
| 13 | ‘ Then I came south to Royston but Queen Margaret and her party had already returned to London to collect all their possessions so I followed in hot pursuit . |
| 14 | I ca n't get up out me bed any more without somebody helping me , so I sleep in that chair . |
| 15 | She probably managed to make him pay her a little more before she agreed to do what he wanted — and altogether earned for herself in one evening more than she does in several days of being a parlourmaid . |
| 16 | The seal wanted to race south and burn off all her blubber , but she knew the penguin was scared , so she swam in lazy circles around the ice raft , singing and talking and giving the penguin names for all the new birds they saw , birds too canny to fly as far north as the Pole for fear of freezing . |
| 17 | She had never learnt to speak Alsatian , a dialect closely related to Old High German , so she spoke in faultless German instead . |
| 18 | Once you learnt in this way it was easily recalled . |
| 19 | ‘ We have a much higher profile abroad than we do in this country , ’ said Patrick . |
| 20 | Well , he 'll be tried by a higher court than we have in this life . |
| 21 | Sharon had gone to hospital an hour before me , so we travelled in separate ambulances . |
| 22 | Both sources have been neglected by researchers , although they survive in large numbers , and contain very valuable evidence bearing on the British Industrial Revolution , its causes , and its effects on the standard of living . |
| 23 | The Foundation 's funds , although they arise in modest sums from events such as the concerts and total not much more than £300,000 , have a disproportionate effect in use . |
| 24 | The debates will turn out to be less clear and clean than they seem in this outline . |
| 25 | And the reason that rents in Cambridge are higher than in those in surrounding areas , or the eight that the councillor is talking about is because the rent levels which er the government require us to raise to are historically based on right to buy values and as he knows as well as I do , house prices in Cambridge have been relatively consistently higher than they have in surrounding areas . |
| 26 | Lipski made the point that these and other examples of anti-Polish sentiment occurred with greater frequency in the areas bordering the Polish Corridor than they did in other parts of Germany . |
| 27 | Nanny Fanny was also a Jewess , which caused a lot of bad feeling because Smallfry called herself a Catholic and so they believed in different pars of the Bible and were supposed to go to church on different days of the week . |
| 28 | Two thoughts immediately flow from this preliminary verse to those unfamiliar with these texts : ( 1 ) so they believe in some form of ghosts then do they ? and ( 2 ) but he did n't believe in God so what has happened to my husband ? |
| 29 | Where once they flew in such flocks that they threw shadows over the earth , they now survive in a few straggling colonies . |
| 30 | The supposed inferiority of women to men , although it existed in developing countries before colonialism , was reinforced by Victorian colonists and through Christianity . |