Example sentences of "where it [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was far easier than might now be supposed to remain ignorant of the deplorable housing in English cities , even where it affected the great majority , as in the London of Little Dorrit , with its 10,000 responsible houses and 50,000 lairs , ‘ where people lived so unwholesomely , that fair water put into their crowded rooms on Saturday night , would be corrupt on Sunday morning ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ You made me squash it , ’ snapped Victoria and pettishly threw it across the room , where it struck the sleeping dog sharply on the flank . |
| 3 | Compared to all the other seven departments the ‘ stagnated ’ had the lowest score on all dimensions except ‘ challenge ’ ( where it was in the middle ) and ‘ conflicts ’ ( where it had the highest score ) . |
| 4 | Car 2 was presented to the National Tramway Museum at Crich in 1963 , where it became the first car there to move under power in June 1964 . |
| 5 | He felt attached to it so had tattooed the name in his right armpit where it matched the oriental dragon rampaging over the inside of his bicep . |
| 6 | The newt clutched desperately at the cotton smock where it covered the great chest and there it clung with its little claw-like feet . |
| 7 | For a time it probably controlled the Adriatic coast from Rijeka to the Neretva and extended inland to the Hungarian border north of Zagreb and to the Drina valley in the south , where it faced the Byzantine empire and the Serbian principality of Raška . |
| 8 | Was he strengthening his border where it faced the great Angevin arsenal and treasury at Chinon , which would one day come into the hands of his feckless elder brother ? |