Example sentences of "where he [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Haig had seen action in the Sudan in 1898 and at the Battle of Omdurman , where he served with the Egyptian cavalry . |
| 2 | Many of the pieces were purchased by Dubosc in Japan where he lived for the latter part of his life and much of his collection is now in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco . |
| 3 | He said the house where he lived in the fashionable Perth suburb of Dalkeith , built for about £530,000 , was owned by a trust , and the beneficiaries were his children . |
| 4 | Huss is remembered by a street named after him ( the Hussenstrasse ) and by his effigy on the house where he lived in the same street . |
| 5 | In an attempt to solve the Arab-Israeli crisis , the Highland Light Infantry sent Docherty to Palestine , where he played for the British Army XI . |
| 6 | In a career that took him to Genoa where he played for the local side Sampdoria , he assumed an almost Italianate sense of style . |
| 7 | He was engaged by ( Sir ) Herbert Beerbohm Tree [ q.v. ] to act in Australia , where he played in The Eternal City , 1903–5 , and returned to London with 100 parts ready for performance . |
| 8 | He sees the month in New Zealand , where he played against the All Blacks in 1985 , not as a final proving ground but as a searching test of known ability and attitudes . |
| 9 | A third took him into the garden where he looked at the neat undisturbed flower-beds . |
| 10 | Travelling on a false passport made out in the name of James Richardson , Bourke travelled by train from London to Paris ( apparently without encountering any problems with the police who were searching for him ) , and thence by air to Berlin where he crossed into the eastern sector and shortly afterwards was flown to Moscow to be reunited with Blake . |
| 11 | The Abbot of Battle , John Hammond , took an annual pension of £100 , worth possibly £10,000 in our currency , almost tax-free to boot , and settled in the town where he died in the later 1540s . |
| 12 | He comes from Dusseldorf , where he studied at the famous Academy with Gerhard Richter , and shows large landscape paintings in which the natural is disturbed by human interventions , all seen from a rather high vantage point . |
| 13 | Impressed by the Method masters ' formidable screen and stage presence , Allen left fringe theatre for New York , where he studied at the famous Strasberg Institute ( former pupils include Marilyn Monroe and Method 's godfather Brando ) and worked by night as a doorman at the fashionable club , Nell 's , ’ to pay the rent ’ . |
| 14 | He grew up in Holland until at the age of I3 he was sent to live with his uncle , Henri Curiel , in Egypt , where he studied at the English school . |
| 15 | Loathing the expressionism and abstractions that surround him during his time at Newcastle , where he studied in the late Sixties , he believes ‘ you have to pick up the traces . |
| 16 | The last hopes of avoiding war centred on ( i ) a French mediation effort in early January ; ( ii ) the Jan. 9 US-Iraqi meeting in Geneva at foreign ministerial level , i.e. between US Secretary of State James Baker and Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz ; ( iii ) a visit by Pérez de Cuéllar to Baghdad , where he met with the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on Jan. 13 ; and ( iv ) the possibility of a last-minute French initiative , with Soviet support , at the UN . |
| 17 | In 1917 Macmillan took the chair of history at the Johannesburg School of Mines ( later the University of the Witwatersrand ) where he worked on the radical Scots missionary Dr John Philip . |
| 18 | Macijauskas himself is from the second city and former capital , Kaunas which is where he worked with the local branch of the society , won some competitions and became a newspaper reporter . |
| 19 | He had ( like Davy in the previous generation ) risen by his professional competence to a position where he mingled with the eminent , like W. E. Gladstone , the Prince Consort and Samuel Wilberforce . |