Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was rushed to Brompton Hospital where for five weeks he lay under continuous oxygen . |
| 2 | His sleep , he knew at once , must have been unusually deep , for he had no clear idea how long it had lasted nor where for that matter he was . |
| 3 | One day in April 1943 Albert Hoffmann , a chemist who was working at Sandoz on the development of ergot alkaloids , felt unwell and went home early , where for some hours he experienced a variety of disordered visions . |
| 4 | The gendarme stood bewildered for a moment , and then ran into the street , where for some time he could be heard blowing his whistle . |
| 5 | In 1858–9 he was in the service of the Admiralty , before returning to south Wales , where for ten years he was engineer-in-chief and general manager of the Sirhowy Tramroad , which he converted into a standard railway . |
| 6 | In 1923 he obtained two consultant posts as children 's physician , one at the Queen 's Hospital for Children , where for ten years he was in charge of the London county council rheumatic and heart clinic , and the other at Paddington Green Children 's Hospital , where he continued to work for nearly forty years . |
| 7 | When doctors announced that there was a glimmer of hope , Raine organized a private ambulance to take him to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Queen Square , central London where for several months he lay in a coma . |
| 8 | I was lucky to move on from Manchester City Art Galleries where after seventeen years I ended up as Senior Keeper of Fine Art . |
| 9 | These certainly were not in the box when it arrived in England and I fear were purloined from you either at Perth or Sydney , the tin box where in all probability you intended to put them not being opened at the Docks . |
| 10 | There is an appropriation where in those circumstances he later assumes " a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner " . |
| 11 | The hotel 's restaurant enjoys a good reputation , with a lovely first-floor terrace where on fine days you dine overlooking the lake . |
| 12 | " Here are the Maplin Sands , off Foulness Island , where at one time we were going to have a great new airport complex , " he said . |
| 13 | The move from Greek Street — where at one stage he had had 60 boys being taught in the old Headmaster 's house — to Buxton Road had gone smoothly , and Daniel 's most illustrious pupil , Edge , had just become a Fellow of Trinity College , Cambridge . |
| 14 | On the Callanish moorland there are not many features , except for one thing I will tell you about soon . |
| 15 | The conduct of persons who daub walls with racist graffiti is also nominally caught , although for practical reasons it may be simpler for the police to arrest and a prosecution brought for criminal damage , which carries a higher penalty if the damage done is sufficiently great , always supposing that the culprit can be apprehended . |
| 16 | We have not forgotten this offer , although for various reasons we have not been able to develop an idea until now . |
| 17 | For men , the range is usually between 9200 kJ and 12 100 Kj per day although for manual workers it can be more . |
| 18 | Released from the Vickers factory at Brooklands on September 25 , 1953 , Varsity T.1 WL679 spent most of its life at Farnborough , although for several years it was based at Pershore . |
| 19 | The actor is no different , although for some reason it is often thought that you are somehow ready to act , magically , the moment you enter a stage door . |
| 20 | Gradually they learn to discriminate , although for some time they can not determine what is influencing the mother 's movements towards or away from them . |
| 21 | Depending on the time of year , the Chelt at this point is often no more than a trickle , although after heavy rain it can rapidly become a muddy torrent , rushing through the fields ( and now beneath the M5 motorway ) , via Butlers Court , to the next mill at Boddington . |
| 22 | Denmark had in Cnut 's day only recently been converted to Christianity , and these authors are unlikely to have possessed much in the way of early documentary material , although like English historians they fairly clearly knew oral traditions which need not always have been groundless . |
| 23 | SIR — Although like most MPs I accept the principle that a majority of one is enough , I find it difficult to explain to my Southend Conservative supporters who have phoned me why your paper takes the view that there was a 4.43 per cent swing from Conservative to Labour in our constituency . |
| 24 | As coding with the Read codes can be more detailed than with other codes it will be more prone to error and may take longer . |
| 25 | By this time he was writing rather apologetically to Constanze , telling her that she must be more delighted to see him back in person than with any money he would be bringing in — he had even been obliged to lend his impecunious patron Prince Lichnowsky 100 gulden , a request he could hardly refuse … . |
| 26 | Scion of an ancient family of Scottish gentry , the Stirlings of Keir , he was the founder of what was to become the Special Air Service Regiment as we know it today , although with typical modesty he always insisted on sharing the credit with others . |
| 27 | Professor Stewart and his colleagues at the University of Birmingham identified a number of difficulties with these proposed changes , although with academic care they added the proviso : ‘ to identify problems is not to draw a conclusion ’ ( Stewart et al . |
| 28 | Recognition , however , does not necessarily require such processing ( although under certain circumstances it may be desirable ) . |
| 29 | No competition of any binding sites within the PPT promoter was seen by the 71/72 oligonucleotide although under similar conditions we could show that an AP1 oligonucleotide specifically competed a previously proposed AP1 binding site ( 7 ) . |
| 30 | This practice ended when it was declared unlawful by judicial review in 1985 ( R v Hallstrom ex parte W ) , although under Scots law it continues with monitoring by the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland . |