Example sentences of "[noun sg] where he [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 In 1752 he prepared a catalogue of the contents of his Mill Hill garden and later had this bound with the seventh edition of the Dictionary where he made his own marginal notes on items of interest , including remarkable first flowerings in Britain .
2 Royle has named five Goodison old boys in the 16-man squad to face the club where he started his career .
3 Casabona admitted he forced a woman lodger in the house to go to a bedroom where he tied her up with adhesive tape .
4 Benin climbed out and crossed to the guardhouse where he showed his ID card to the nearest of three armed sentries .
5 PLUMBER Peter Rowe , 53 , has bought the Wheal Basset Inn at Carnkie , Cornwall — the pub where he had his first drink 38 years ago .
6 He accompanied his trainees on lunchtime booze-ups in the local pub where he regaled them with stories of his hectic social life .
7 Police believe the bomb may have been planted under the Nissan Datsun outside a pub where he met his girlfriend , Jenny Hill , a Catholic .
8 He was so fed up that he put another penny to the one earned for a whole day 's labour and went to the pub where he drowned his sorrows in a pint .
9 Sinatra seemed to reach a point where he thought he could do as he liked .
10 But if it came to the point where he thought he had nothing to lose , I do n't know what he would do . ’
11 He has reached the point where he thinks he is so right that he has in fact ceased to develop .
12 When her father retired she and her sisters begged him to rake a bungalow up the coast , but he insisted on remaining in Odborough , choosing this house from where he can see , half a mile away , the roof and chimney of the shop where he made his money .
13 ‘ The place where he keeps his altar and spirits — disembodied spirits , that is . ’
14 ‘ I suppose there is some place where he kept his papers and private things ? ’
15 Earlier in the story Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw ahead of him the place where he thought he would kill his son .
16 Alone in the room where he passed his nights , Frere closed the chapter of the Bible which had long ceased to occupy his thoughts .
17 The imaginative chat-show host was now asking the large American author where he got his ideas from .
18 He stood up and began to pace restlessly round the room , stopping occasionally by the door to squint out through the perspex porthole , by the table to lean across it and impale her on his eyes , or by the wall where he sent his hands into spirals of explanation .
19 The account given in this book , based on the constructional meanings , enables us to give answers to these questions : Why does Oliver imagined her red-haired have two different meanings , one where he is trying mentally to change the lady 's image , and the other where he wonders what sort of person he is going to meet ) ?
20 He went to the court where he found himself dubbed the plaintiff , paid a fee and a deposit for which he received a receipt .
21 He had his own little boat and do you know where farmers make farrows on the land , the only mark that was left behind by Angus was the mark where he pulled his boat up on to the shore every day that the weather was not too rough .
22 The linoleum beside the chest was badly stained by spills from the big white pot where he relieved himself at night when the house was very quiet and scary .
23 He had even been able to specify a little more precisely the area where he thought they were concealed .
24 Werewolf proceeded to try and blow all four stereo speakers and by the time he had the volume where he wanted it , and was playing along on his air guitar , we were through Sidcup and heading for the motorway .
25 He wore a smart black tail coat and silk waistcoat , and a gold chain was draped from a buttonhole to the pocket where he kept his watch .
26 On the island where he worked there was a total repertoire of about nine distinct songs .
27 A few commandos struggled ashore , among them Captain Michael Burn , who went alone three quarters of a mile across the docks to near the northern bridge where he did what he could to destroy an unmanned battery and was visited by Bill Copland doing a round of the northern positions .
28 Ray completed his required 43 hours flying time out in the Algarve region of sunny Portugal , a far cry from the Cumbrian airstrip where he began his training .
29 And three days before these lines were written , English Heritage set the seal on Eliot 's Kensington associations by putting a plaque on the block where he spent his last and happiest years .
30 He swept the magazine into a drawer , then carried the tea mug over to the sink where he emptied it .
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