Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't tip me , but placed the ferrule carefully inside the wallet , and then politely asked me who I was , and fulsomely , where I had learnt such excellent French . |
| 2 | She had not told him exactly where she had got all the money that had been spent so freely around this house , but of course he guessed . |
| 3 | He had , in fact , just left me on a bench in a nearby park where we had spent some time together before he decided to go for a stroll . |
| 4 | Just after eleven , more people began to arrive as the pubs chucked out and so Dosh and I ( or maybe it was Freddie ) moved upstairs where we 'd found another front room which had been stripped of furniture and somebody had run a pair of extra speakers off the disco in the lounge . |
| 5 | Never one to wallow in self-pity , he 'd started by mugging a couple of Indian kids in bright shirts behind the bus station and then he 'd followed a Yuppie type from his bank 's Cashcard machine to the stairway of a multi-storey car park , where they 'd had some dealings involving a Rolex and all the wad in the Yuppie 's wallet . |
| 6 | Some directors of the House of Industry had trespassed on workhouse premises , where they had lopped some trees without permission . |
| 7 | They were already in some difficulty in northern Tonkin , where they had abandoned some of their isolated posts , so that , once again , it was the presence of China — shadow , perhaps , rather than substance — which was helping to transform the appreciations and perception of the struggle . |
| 8 | His wife had been an islander by birth and after she died he decided to live there where they had spent many happy holidays . |
| 9 | A month ago they , together with the males , left the burrows on the floor of the forest inland where they had spent most of the year and began a long march to the coast . |
| 10 | He 'd survived where they had eliminated some of his followers because they took him at his own estimation , a man of the cloth . |
| 11 | A little later on she dropped Edna and Karen in Oxford Street , where they planned to do some shopping before catching the train home . |
| 12 | Christopher — more talkative than usual — was animated in his description of the Highlands , where he had taken several long walks with Alastair . |
| 13 | In April 1965 Crawford opened with Harry H. Corbett in a new comedy , Travelling Light , at the Prince of Wales Theatre , where he had enjoyed such success in Come Blow Your Horn . |
| 14 | His undoubted talents never blossomed in public life , and he devoted himself to an immense rebuilding and renovation programme at Chatsworth House , Derbyshire , where he loved to spend many hours in the library . |
| 15 | Once it was accepted that this kind of question could be raised , the way was open to the conclusion that the Bible should simply be treated as a collection of ancient religious literature with no special claims to be heard or accepted except where it happened to express some general religious ‘ principle ’ that could be recognised as universally valid — the kernel within the husk . |
| 16 | I could n't go back to work although I had tried several times and socializing was no fun at all . |
| 17 | Although I tried to do this visualization several times a day , I found it best and most rewarding first thing in the morning when I and my mind were fresh . |
| 18 | Although I did hear that accident was n't entirely kosher . ’ |
| 19 | The new flat was smaller than the old so I had to sell some of my furniture . |
| 20 | But what made me decide I 'd had enough was when one night about 11pm I was about to climb into bed when the bell rang from the drawing room so I had to slip some clothes on and go and answer it . |
| 21 | ‘ My first baby changing bag ( Mothercare , £13.50 ) fell apart , so I had to buy another one and I bought a baby changing mat ( £6 ) . |
| 22 | They had n't come in yet so I started getting some food ready and tried to make up my mind what to tell Rick . |
| 23 | Once I had written these letters , I then applied to the Department that was officially responsible for serving the Diplomatic Corps . |
| 24 | Once I 'd made that decision nothing was going to stop me . |
| 25 | Because it was no use to the farmer , there was no water to be seen there , and I thought I could do it with my own garden tools , and so once I 'd removed all the rough brambles and so on and discovered the periphery of the old pond |
| 26 | He had tackled her about Pascoe and , although she had reacted much as he 'd expected , perhaps she would think it over and do what he advised . |
| 27 | Although she had made some photocopies to study later , it was possible that Adam might be able to clear the matter up in a few moments . |
| 28 | She hoped her stepfather would be home late : although she had spent most of her life with him , she regretted that her mother had felt unable to exist as a single parent , and Camille still wished that he would prove unfaithful or die . |
| 29 | More human than she 'd looked all morning , he thought , realizing he had taken against his witness at least partly because she was alive and the amusing , lively , feminine creature that had been Angela Morgan was not . |
| 30 | The umbilical cord and the afterbirth were still inside me , so she began to yank this baby and I said " Excuse me , I 've still got a bit inside me . " |