Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had dinner at a superb restaurant , bustling with the rich and famous , where everyone covertly glanced at everyone else , slyly assessing outfits and hairdos . |
| 2 | One leads up an unfrequented glen occupied by wild goats and skirts the northern flank of Beinn Fhada to arrive at a rough bealach or col , where I once shivered for two hours waiting for the mist to lift off Sgurr nan Ceathreamhnan ahead , which it did not . |
| 3 | I 'll never forget the cellar of a little pub where I once stood for 10 agonizing minutes — ( it seemed like a century ) — with three of my friends , facing four of the meanest-looking characters I had ever met . |
| 4 | In 1917–18 she served on the committee on post-war reconstruction , where she frequently clashed with Beatrice Webb . |
| 5 | Mia was driven to the Drumcondra clinic , where she instantly fell in love with rough , red-haired little Tip . |
| 6 | Go back to the west coast where you probably came from and join the other vagrants there . |
| 7 | The governing body was concerned that setting up its own separate committee structure would not only be perceived as competing with the existing structure ( with all the attendant risks of a developing ‘ us and them ’ mentality where one rarely existed before ) , but would also be repetitive . |
| 8 | That success led the Newmanites further into electoral politics , where they finally emerged in 1979 as the neutral-sounding New Alliance Party . |
| 9 | Then , in 1988 , traces of 10 were found in Vietnam 's Nam Cat Tien swamp , where they presumably lived through the war . |
| 10 | The first approach involved despatching specially selected officers into ‘ alienated neighbourhoods ’ and having them operate from ‘ storefront ’ mini-police stations , where they sometimes worked in teams , helping and advising marginal sections of society , like drug addicts and delinquent children . |
| 11 | I kept them to myself , where they constantly grew in depth and where they became merely a backdrop to my private obsession : home , family , school , everything . |
| 12 | While not forgetting the observations in Black-Clawson International Ltd. v. Papierwerke Waldhof-Aschaffenburg A.G. [ 1975 ] A.C. 591 of Lord Reid , at p. 614f , Lord Wilberforce , at p. 629c–g , and Lord Diplock , at p. 637D , where he wisely warned against departing from the plain and natural meaning in favour of a strained construction , I am much impressed by the more adventurous but very logical pronouncements of Viscount Dilhorne , at pp. 622c–623e , and Lord Simon of Glaisdale , at p. 646e–g . |
| 13 | Her eyes in the darkness found his and her dry hand clasped his leg , where he now stood beside her , preparing to leave . |
| 14 | He wondered if Slater intended to walk the whole way with him , or whether he was only going as far as the Air Gallery , now only just across the street , where he sometimes went in the afternoons . |
| 15 | Then , as if satisfied that there was no one about , he hurried across the glade , where he almost trod on Rosalind 's letter , which was lying face-upwards on the grass . |
| 16 | Fearon looked temporarily nonplussed , then shrugged , tossed the towel back into the bathroom behind him where it presumably landed on the floor and growled , ‘ All right , I 'll show you around . |
| 17 | I was I was wondering too , myself , as I was travelling here where where it actually came from because er I do n't remember as a child , myself , doing something like this . |
| 18 | He slid his hand to her hip , where it gently rotated in a maddeningly sensual rhythm . |
| 19 | That night , when he awoke in the full certainty that someone else was in the room , he reached for it , where it usually lay by his headrest ; but he had barely moved before he felt its point at his throat . |
| 20 | But instead of looking at her , he was staring down at her hand where it still lay on his arm . |
| 21 | FitzAlan tossed the gown carelessly on to the stool , where it promptly slithered to the floor . |
| 22 | Although I duly applied for the Fellowship , I was unsuccessful , no doubt to my lasting benefit , as similar failures have served to prove . |
| 23 | I knew that I wanted a free and independent life although I secretly subscribed to the idea of marrying a professional , sighted man . |
| 24 | Fiercely private , he will only talk about 39-year-old Frances in professional terms but affection for her sneaks through : ‘ I actually met her through work , although I never worked with her directly until now , ’ he says . |
| 25 | ‘ So someone actually got into the hospital ? ’ |
| 26 | Sometime later I had replaced the clubs and got a better set than I originally had after that I thought I was quite lucky that they had been stolen . |
| 27 | ‘ At least I 've seen more of the town where I live than I ever saw from a carriage or on horseback . ’ |
| 28 | I have learned more than I ever knew about humility . |
| 29 | I experienced far more racism at primary school than I ever did at secondary , which was perhaps unusual . |
| 30 | I do n't know why but I see that more clearly now than I ever did at the time . |