Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sleeping-car attendant sighed deeply at so much opulent femininity and philosophically returned to his roomette , and I went on up the train into the next car , where my own bed lay . |
| 2 | Across the landing which interrupted the downward curve of the stairs was a front bedroom where my youngest aunt slept until my grandmother took to her bed — and afterwards when left alone . |
| 3 | Former champion hurdler Beech Road is an interesting contender , as he reverts to fences after a disappointing season over the smaller obstacles , where his one success came in the ‘ Fighting Fifth ’ at Newcastle . |
| 4 | Presumably this principle would apply to trade unions taking action in the same dispute where their fellow members had been injuncted . |
| 5 | The reference to ‘ ancient and approved custom ’ might have tempted ingenious demur by the bishops , but Edward left them in no doubt where their best interest lay : ‘ know for certain that if you so act , we shall forcefully seize your baronies . ’ |
| 6 | They settled principally in the towns of East Sussex , particularly Rye and Lewes , where their new gospels found a welcome reception among men who misinterpreted the speed with which Henry VIII was prepared to change the church . |
| 7 | They travelled to Mundemba , 230 kms west of the airport at Doula , where the WWF Park HQ is situated and where their first task awaited them . |
| 8 | but where their filmy skins caught the light |
| 9 | Wordlessly Roman followed her back to the terrace , where their half-finished drinks stood on the table . |
| 10 | In any case they were quite clear where their own priorities lay : |
| 11 | But one looks in vain for any discussion of their physical growth , where their original core lay , of the directions in which they grew , and when and why , and of what accounts for their street plan and their shape today . |
| 12 | Women , as a distinctive category of workers , tended to be ignored except where their domestic responsibilities raised uncomfortable problems for management . |
| 13 | It ran , high and level and almost straight , from the north , where its Precipitous crags dropped sheer from the edge , black against the pale , early morning light , to the south , where a jagged lump stood up , breaking its smooth run . |
| 14 | Most of its fruit had fallen in the long grass , where its rotting skin had been pecked and tunnelled by birds and worms . |
| 15 | The buildings were the same kind as where her faceless father had been . |
| 16 | There was a neat solid bulge where her flat belly had been . |
| 17 | Soaking wet , and with a bloody stump where her right arm had been , Susan found herself in the cabin of an airship . |
| 18 | Dana had a blind spot where her own interests lay . |
| 19 | She could taste blood now on her lips where her own teeth had bitten them , could see blood flecking her vision , hear it pounding in her ears as she ran , propelled by the first hot rush of her panic so that when she collided with the rough corner of a market stall she did not feel it ; when she stumbled again and scrambled to her feet she was unaware of her grazed hands and knees ; heedless of brewers ' drays , the hooves of heavy horses ; the outrage of the passers-by she pushed aside ; the woman with the heavy market basket she knocked over . |
| 20 | She heard her grandmother informing her that out there , in that Mongolian vastness , was ‘ The Dragon 's Tomb ’ where her own great-grandfather had gone to find the dinosaur eggs . |
| 21 | He ignored her , lifting her with his strong arms on to the bed , his hands still on her thighs and dangerously moving inwards where her own fires burned unchecked , waiting to be extinguished . |
| 22 | In due course , she entered government as the wife of the President of the Board of Trade in the first Labour administration ( where her social background came in useful advising less elegantly born wives on ‘ clothes and curtseys ’ when visiting the Palace ) . |
| 23 | It was in these few rooms that the last act of the drama took place , for the rest of the building remained unused except for those rooms near to the Empress 's apartments where her few attendants camped out , sleeping on improvised beds and working , when necessary , on the corners of tables hastily cleared to provide space on which to write . |
| 24 | Julie Hall , the 1987 English Champion who was to finish as high as third , had an opening 82 which took in an 8 at the 12th where her 2-iron second took off in a gust and ended in rough so deep that her third was an air shot . |
| 25 | He let his mind wander down the twenty yards of landing and the three stairs to the back bedroom where his sixteen-year-old daughter lay . |
| 26 | Mr Reynolds is admitted directly from the surgical Outpatient Clinic where his General Practitioner referred him urgently because of his history of an alteration in bowel habit , rectal bleeding and constipation . |
| 27 | Those were offset by a double bogey at the par-five 15th , where his second shot went into the water . |
| 28 | There , at Kemp 's home again I 'm guessing — a quarrel took place in which Kemp was struck over the head and sent stumbling in his own living room , where his right temple crashed against the kerb of the fire-place — and where he died . |
| 29 | ‘ You really think you can play God with people 's lives , do n't you ? ’ she demanded shakily , rubbing her arm jerkily where his restraining grip seemed to have stopped the blood flow . |
| 30 | Mr Lilley never looked happy at the Department of Trade and Industry , where his non-interventionist views seemed out of tune with a deepening recession which was laying waste many of the businesses created in the boom years of 1980s . |