Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd left school in 1976 , I was unemployed and it all happened through a drama group at the Royal Court Theatre where I met people who were out . |
| 2 | My nocturnal escapades sometimes included visits to the school kitchens , where I ate bananas , leaving a mound of their skins conspicuously on one of the tables , and quantities of ice cream , which I scooped up in handfuls , defiling the common stock with the unhygienic touch of my individuality . |
| 3 | We wasted days and days dancing in the Pink Pussy Club , yawning at Fat Mattress at the Croydon Greyhound , ogling strippers on Sunday mornings in a pub , sleeping through Godard and Antonioni films , and enjoying the fighting at Millwall Football Ground , where I forced Changez to wear a bobble-hat over his face in case the lads saw he was a Paki and imagined I was one too . |
| 4 | I will take you where I took Heather . |
| 5 | It was like from head to toe there was these marks on my body where I had bruises , and I got done for police assault — I could n't believe it ! |
| 6 | We all went to the carol service in Bath Abbey , where I had difficulty restraining my tears . |
| 7 | Late that afternoon we made a perfect three-point landing at the RCAF airstrip in Whitehorse , capital of the Yukon Territory , where I found shelter for the night in a bare but adequate room at the Whitehorse Hotel . |
| 8 | My first stop was at the Halcyon Days stand where I found Mrs Benjamin with her husband ; she runs the wonderful Halcyon Days shop in Brook Street , which is such a godsend to so many of us for an attractive last-minute present . |
| 9 | Back Downtown , to Canal Street , where I found Chinatown , with the second largest Chinese community in the West , 30,000 . |
| 10 | Every day on Chelalo Haig-Thomas or I saw nyala , usually in small parties of cows and immature males ; I once counted a dozen together . |
| 11 | five hundred and fifty five pound all in there 's that one or I found Toyota Caro Carolla , thirteen gear X , X reg , high motor taxed M O T |
| 12 | She dashed out into the road , where she saw Laura 's inert and profusely bleeding body by the side of the carriageway . |
| 13 | Yesterday the girl , who can not be named , appeared before Darlington Juvenile Court where she admitted theft . |
| 14 | Where she learnt savagery . |
| 15 | Her most unusual assignment so far has been interviewing Daniel Ortega at a dinner party , Sandinista style , where she drank rum with the bodyguards and was persuaded to dance with Ortega . |
| 16 | In 1988 , she stepped on to the ministerial ladder as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of the Environment , where she took charge of one of Mrs Margaret Thatcher 's pet hates — litter . |
| 17 | Born in Dulwich , she was educated at Sussex University where she read music and education in 1968 . |
| 18 | Sophy Sanger was educated at Dr Elizabeth Dawes ' School , Weybridge , and at Newnham College , Cambridge , where she read mathematics ( 1899–1902 ) and then moral sciences , narrowly missing a first in 1903 . |
| 19 | She attended Bedford College for Women and entered University College London in 1871 , where she studied law and political economy , winning in 1876 first prize in Roman law and the Hume scholarship in jurisprudence . |
| 20 | She was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies ' College , Ormond College , and Melbourne University , where she studied philosophy and history ( BA 1903 ) . |
| 21 | At 14 , Hurston left home to work as a housemaid , then went back to school and on to university , where she studied literature and later anthropology . |
| 22 | In summer 1799 they moved to Ballitor , county Kildare , where she had access to a good library . |
| 23 | Mary Dobson too , retired early from teaching at Tiverton Grammar school , where she taught History , ran the library and was Head of First Year . |
| 24 | Within a month of filming the episode she flew back to London — heart of her new global empire — where she planned record and film work designed to guarantee that soon she would never need to work in Ramsay Street — or anywhere else for that matter — again . |
| 25 | Her first stop was Merchiston Tower , once home to our name-sake , John Napier , where she met members of the Governing Body , staff and the Students Association . |
| 26 | She was also active at Percy Alden 's Mansfield House settlement in Canning Town , where she met Frederick Lawrence ( later Baron Pethick-Lawrence , q.v. ) , prospective Liberal Unionist MP , who was living at the settlement . |
| 27 | After qualifying , she joined Armitage & Norton in 1985 , where she met Claire , and they hit it off straight away . |
| 28 | In 1912 Nina Hamnett , a modern and talented young artist from England , briefly visited Paris , where she met Epstein and his wife . |
| 29 | She made small-talk with Amy and Roger Dyson and greeted about fifty more guests before excusing herself to go to the ladies ' room where she met Elaine powdering her nose . |
| 30 | She was educated at the Art School in Gower Street and then at Mrs Hill 's School , where she met Octavia Hill , John Ruskin , Charles Kingsley , and F. D. Maurice [ qq.v . ] . |