Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing I played two rounds of golf yesterday … ’ |
| 2 | We cascaded down the stairs as the dog decided he could take going downstairs in his stride — and seethed across the station into the sunshine of the great outdoors ; where I observed two large policemen surrounding my estate car , notebooks in hand — and under the obvious impression that they were abut to make an easy collar . |
| 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 | ‘ I was taken to Arrowe Park Hospital where I spent four hours having scans and the doctors said he seemed to be OK . |
| 5 | ‘ Not in Europe , Jane , where I spent ten long years looking for an ideal . |
| 6 | But from my point of view what mattered most was that it bordered Abyssinia , where I hoped one day to be posted . |
| 7 | I went down to the execution yard where I saw three corpses . |
| 8 | The prize for winning ‘ New Faces ’ was a trip to Las Vegas and a three-week cabaret stint at the M.G.M. Grand , where I died four times nightly during each 45-minute spot . |
| 9 | I then went down into the cockpit , where I counted eleven of our best men lying dead . |
| 10 | One hot after noon I was cycling on a lonely road to a country house where I had two pupils when I heard a plane buzzing rather low over my head . |
| 11 | Having been awarded my red beret , I went on to RAF Brize Norton where I completed seven parachute jumps and was awarded my ‘ wings ’ . |
| 12 | Well , the statistics that you gave earlier for example , that erm was it forty two per cent of students perceive themselves to have been sexually harassed , or I think fifty per cent of students perceive themselves to have been sexually harassed , that is students who answered the questionnaire . |
| 13 | Mrs Dyer was lodged in Reading Gaol , where she made two abortive attempts at suicide , the first with a pair of scissors with which she tried to stab herself ; thwarted , she then tried to strangle herself with her boot laces , with no greater success . |
| 14 | The last years of her life were divided between Bermuda and Plandome , Long Island , where she built herself an Italian-style villa and where she died 29 October 1924 . |
| 15 | She had to go to the Garfield Centre , where she taught one day a week , to see the inmates perform their Christmas entertainment . |
| 16 | It has been disclosed that within a short time of leaving Aberdeen Royal Infirmary yesterday where she stayed three nights and underwent an operation to remove a piece of fish lodged in her throat she was entertaining guests . |
| 17 | The first woman controller of Radio 2 has risen from the BBC typing pool , where she started 32 years ago . |
| 18 | I Call 'd at the House , where you said I shou 'd dine , |
| 19 | ‘ For those who like term shares , the best deals at the moment are from Stroud & Swindon where you get 10 per cent gross fixed until January on £5,000 or more , ’ says Willis . |
| 20 | And then when I was about seven I went for an eye test where you get one of those cards with all the dots on , and , you 're supposed to see fifty-seven but I could only see twenty-seven . |
| 21 | Where you eat one of these things and there . |
| 22 | It was , it was indeed , yes , yes , yes , the original one where you added ten , ten , and erm , quote I think |
| 23 | Going back to the six months one erm where you 've fifteen thousand |
| 24 | ‘ I hate rigid schemes where you pick three colours , ’ she explains . |
| 25 | Pick up any book ( not a children 's book or one which is highly technical or full of pictures ) and open it where you have two complete pages of text . |
| 26 | Exercise 1 : Try playing the children 's party game where you spend two minutes looking at an assortment of small items on a tray , then cover them with a cloth and see how many of them you can write down . |
| 27 | I could n't help contrasting it with Antrim , Edinburgh , Gateshead , even Crystal Palace where you needed two or three tracksuits just to keep warm . |
| 28 | We had those Russian dolls where you unscrew one and there 's another inside , and I thought people were born fully clothed . |
| 29 | But where you sees two for the price of one , you 're effectively gon na be getting a fifty percent |
| 30 | does n't matter whether they 're ninety five or you know sixteen , there are |