Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | It was easy to sink into a sort of limbo , where nothing seemed any longer to be as important as it had been . |
2 | I know of one company where everyone became so highly motivated that most of them left , because they now found frustrating a pace which they had found acceptable before . |
3 | It may be they sa Mr Eggleton with somebody shortly before he died or someone came home with bloodstained clothing . |
4 | Says Lee : ‘ I have never lost my affection for Manchester City where I spent so many happy years during the club 's successful period , and like so many others I have been disturbed by the events of the last few weeks . ’ |
5 | A policeman came to call on me that Thursday evening , after Angy 's body had been found , asking what time the class ended and where I went afterwards … that sort of thing . |
6 | He was at the Bristol Vic Theatre School where I went too , and we both get on tremendously . ’ |
7 | Ah , well , back to that banquet in Hampton Court where I got royally drunk . |
8 | A good night out for me would be one where I got home and nobody had played any tricks on me . |
9 | This fact I had ample opportunities of verifying on the islands of Bass 's Straits , where I had scarcely stepped from the boat before every creature was made acquainted with my presence — no small annoyance to me , whose object was to secure the wary cereopsis and eagle , which with thousands of petrels and many other kinds of water-birds tenant these dreary islands . ’ |
10 | I opened it , and I got my answer , and it set me thinking afresh and seeing clearly where I had formerly been blind . |
11 | The water-trough was about twelve yards from the barn door where I had just appeared ; and between the door and the water-trough was a single post . |
12 | I suppose that at school , where I had so little sleep , this assertion was true . |
13 | ‘ That was no carver 's or miniaturist 's craft , but black magic , for that was the castle in which I lived , and the forests and meadows round it were mine , where I roamed freely , with my beloved brother , until the black artist came one night seeking shelter from foul weather . |
14 | He interviewed me , asking my name , where I worked etc — I got a plug in for Scottish Amicable of course . |
15 | Where I needed more obvious hints of colour , values such as 221 , light pink , were overlaid with 821 , pale grey . |
16 | I never ran marathons , but gradually increased my distance , starting with a 30-mile race , then the Isle of Man 40 on the TT course , where I did well , and the following week I ran from Edinburgh to Glasgow , which is about 50 miles and came in about second or third . ’ |
17 | Or I 'd better provide you with some paper . |
18 | Like they make a mistake , or I 'd better phone back , and then it cost them all that much money again , more money . |
19 | Some , such as jazz guitarist Larry Coryell 's 1971 album Barefoot Boy , on the defunct Flying Dutchman label , probably sold around six copies on vinyl ( mainly thanks to side one , where someone had irresponsibly convinced Coryell he could be the new Jimi Hendrix ) ; a CD re-issue is out of the question . |
20 | They allied themselves with Western influenced opponents of the Qajar and were influential in the revolution of 1906 which further weaken the authority of the Shah by creating a constitutional monarchs , similar to that of Belgium-and which remained nominally in force until 1979 . |
21 | Likewise , a command enjoining some action which was logically impossible , or which had already been carried out , or a lie that through ignorance on the part of the perpetrator turned out to be objectively true , can both be considered defective through the lack of a canonical trait . |
22 | Her only escape was in the paddock , in the motor home or the pits , where she scowled ferociously if disturbed from her work , and even there the journalists sometimes prowled , always on the look-out for a good story . |
23 | Needing a moment 's breathing-space , she took a side-step or two away , and had a brief inner tussle where she came close to telling him that Travis was not her boyfriend , and had never been her boyfriend . |
24 | They were driving down the Boulevard St Germain towards the river ; the Seine 's fast-flowing current , parted hard against the piers of the bridges , seemed to Miranda 's eyes to capture the pace and temperament of this city where she felt so happy , where she wanted to stay . |
25 | She would take Josh and Kathy , go to cosy , comfortable London , where she knew so many people , and there she would sort out her life . |
26 | Sometimes he was even prevailed upon to stay for dinner , which was usually a casual meal with everyone grouped around Faye and the wheeled tray that was placed in front of her on the padded lounge seat where she spent so much of her time . |
27 | Mrs Brocklebank had created a little nest for herself in the basement where she put her clothes and her big black handbag , from which she was only rarely and reluctantly parted , and where she tucked away any odds and ends it was better Brock at home did not see . |
28 | I had to think of her seeing the copy of my cock on Monday , I had to think of her first thinking , ‘ Golly , what a nut ’ , and then finding she had to stare uncontrollably at the specific image of my cock , boyoing , had to file that image away in a secret file folder where she filed away all my asterisk memos , and that some night working late , she 'd reach her long arms down to that drawer and bring out the asterisk file and go through the pages , asterisk after asterisk , until she found my cock . |
29 | ‘ She was released from the unit into a bed-sit , where she lived totally alone . |
30 | She was taken to the intensive care unit of Addenbrookes Hospital , Cambridge , where she died early yesterday . |