Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why has the image of farming gone from one where the farmer was respected as the provider of food for the nation to one where he gets enormous subsidies to produce food mountains and is a burden on the taxpayer ? |
| 2 | His childhood was spent in Cranleigh , and he was educated at Edgeborough School , Guildford , where he revealed precocious talents as artist , poet , and sportsman , and at Christ 's Hospital , London . |
| 3 | A graduate of Clare College , Cambridge , where he read mechanical sciences , he joined BNFL at Sellafield in 1981 . |
| 4 | In 1964 he founded the Glynn Research Laboratories , where he directed biochemical research until 1986 . |
| 5 | He was later Head of the Unemployment Benefit Service , which he managed with great skill , and where he made many friends . |
| 6 | The evening meal had been re-scheduled for 8.30 p.m. ; and with time to spare , after throwing his own large hold-all on to the counterpane of his single bed , Ashenden joined a few of the other tourists in the Residents ' Lounge , where he took some sheets of the hotel 's own note-paper , and began to write a letter . |
| 7 | Jaffray left them there , and battled across to the shore on his own where he summoned other help . |
| 8 | During the war of 1914–18 he served in the food production department of the Board of Agriculture , where he developed sex-linked plumage variants as a means of sexing chicks ; this led to many of the commercial ‘ self-sexing ’ breeds . |
| 9 | Shortly afterwards Howard left Stoke Newington and moved back to central London , to St Pauls Churchyard , where he owned several houses in the neighbourhood . |
| 10 | After a childhood in Lanark , Scotland , where he attended preparatory school , Douglas went to Canada in 1819 in the employ of a firm soon absorbed by the Hudson 's Bay Company . |
| 11 | Having a married sister in Cape Town , he sailed for South Africa in 1914 , where he painted some pictures , gave a series of lectures on modern art , and published a few articles and poems . |
| 12 | His gallery is a grand townhouse on East 79th Street where he trades modern masters , including art from the estate of Pierre Matisse , which he purchased in partnership with Sotheby 's , and blue-chip post-war American and European paintings by Jackson Pollock , Rothko , de Kooning and Francis Bacon . |
| 13 | He 's already put them to good use at Halifax Rugby League club where he enjoyed four years of success . |
| 14 | He stayed on at the Cambridge biochemistry department as demonstrator until 1955 , when he moved to Edinburgh University as director of the chemical biology unit of the Department of Zoology , where he became senior lecturer and then Reader . |
| 15 | In 1920 , for example , the notoriously rotund producer G. B. Samuelson made a trip to Universal Studios , where he produced six pictures to learn what he could about the American way of doing things . |
| 16 | This time , he appeared in the heavyweight division where he produced similar results , throwing his three opponents in the preliminary rounds for ippon ( 10 points ) . |
| 17 | where he drinks nine pints a night . |
| 18 | The leader of another informal nationalist grouping , the Forum for the Peoples of Abkhazia , was elected to the Congress of People 's Deputies and to the new-style Supreme Soviet , where he expressed some reservations about the idea of strengthening the fifteen union republics at the expense , almost certainly , of the smaller national-territorial units that were subordinate to them . |
| 19 | He then moved to University where he spent eight years in research and development in Artificial Intelligence and particularly Expert Systems . |
| 20 | Christopher , of Bognor Regis , Sussex , was rushed to hospital , where he spent five days recovering from his ordeal . |
| 21 | In 1851 he began four years ' apprenticeship with his uncle , Dr Owen Roberts of St Asaph , who prepared him for Edinburgh University , where he spent two years at the medical school . |
| 22 | Tony 's feet crunched over white pebbles , on the path that led to the front door of the insurance company where he spent seven hours a day hunched over claim-forms . |
| 23 | The staff of the rehabilitation unit , on the other hand , where he spent several months before returning home , became their close partners and friends . |
| 24 | While at the city 's Royal Hospital , he took a detour to the maternity ward , where he caused one woman to laugh so much that she had to be whisked away quickly for a premature birth . |
| 25 | Thereafter Marshall divided his time mostly between his various residences , where he entertained such notables as Thomas Carlyle [ q.v . ] . |
| 26 | He wanders lonely valleys and isolated copses , where he plays enticing music on his flute . |
| 27 | Also his head still pains him from time to time where he got that knock . |
| 28 | He was educated in the Puritan household of John Bruen esquire , of Stapleford in Cheshire , and at Queen 's College , Oxford , where he matriculated 26 October 1599 and graduated BA 30 June 1602 . |
| 29 | Mr Taylor was taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital where he received seven stitches to his nose . |
| 30 | Raised on the Wyndford housing scheme , where he lived next door to the Celtic , Dundee and Partick Thistle player Jim Duffy , Nicholas was a pupil at St Columba of Iona , a local catholic school . |