Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | I opened it , and I got my answer , and it set me thinking afresh and seeing clearly where I had formerly been blind . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Before getting into bed I went into the large bathroom beside her bedroom , where I had n't been before . |
| 5 | McEnroe was philosophical : ‘ It just got to be too long where I had n't won the big one . |
| 6 | I suppose that at school , where I had so little sleep , this assertion was true . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Caught in Berlin at the outbreak of war she was able to reach London , where she had already formed her own ballet company under Dandré 's management . |
| 9 | She opened her eyes and was aware of being in her mother 's bed , where she had not been for over ten years . |
| 10 | Melanie decided to adventure downstairs to the kitchen , where she had not been . |
| 11 | She stole up the staircase to his room , where she had not been since she was one of his students . |
| 12 | She pretended to search in the folds of her habit , where she had previously concealed the fox bag . |
| 13 | By this time Lewis was off into a fantasy in which a girl Adam had got pregnant had been abandoned by him with their child at Wyvis Hall where she had later been murdered by a sinister caretaker . |
| 14 | She wore riding clothes and her long dark hair hung loose where she had just unfastened it . |
| 15 | Her mother had picked her up bodily the night before and dragged her into her room where she had then thrown her on to her bed . |
| 16 | Alix drove on to the staff car park , as Technicolor Viennese figures in ball gowns , wearing ruby pendants , flowered corsages , turned in her mind , in a scene that derived less from Vienna ( where she had never been ) than from Tolstoy 's descriptions of balls in War and Peace . |
| 17 | He led her into his study where she had never yet been . |
| 18 | They took her to a small , perfect restaurant , where she had never been before , and fed her on soup and fish and meat and cheese , all of a quality and in quantities she had only dreamed of during the war . |
| 19 | A world of dizzying sensation where she had never been before ? |
| 20 | He was a free-thinker — one whose thoughts ranged widely over every unorthodox idea , forging connections where none had previously been contemplated . |
| 21 | Seeing she had briefly outflanked him , she pressed her advantage . |
| 22 | These results agree with those of a preliminary study of eight normal subjects given 200 mg of acarbose after a 380 kcal breakfast , where we had also observed a significant acceleration of MCTT in comparison with placebo . |
| 23 | In many cases they focused on areas which AEA had already identified as essential to our future success and where we had already initiated action . |
| 24 | None of us knew exactly where we were , so the captain decided to continue sailing eastwards , where we had never been before . |
| 25 | Its real achievement lay in slowly but surely creating and manipulating opinion to create a border mentality where one had not existed in such crude form before . |
| 26 | Areas where there had previously been little opportunity for women to have waged work ( the coalfields of the old peripheral regions were the classic example ) would provide such a reserve of labour and would therefore be attractive to manufacturing industry . |
| 27 | The bright tangle of plants had become a funereal monochrome , and there was a dullness where there had previously been a dazzling glimpse of the Mediterranean . |
| 28 | Carole said that she always brought everything including the kitchen sink because she 'd stayed in the past in basecamps where there had n't even been enough mattresses to go round ; one in South Wales had been a wooden hut with gas lights and a fridge half a mile away . |
| 29 | silence where there had once been pools |
| 30 | And it also implies that where there had once been marriage , there was now divorce . |