Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After sailing all day , I reached a small island , where I slept that night . |
| 2 | But from my point of view what mattered most was that it bordered Abyssinia , where I hoped one day to be posted . |
| 3 | Perhaps you can guess exactly where I fell that night . |
| 4 | I visited the local teacher 's centre where I discussed this self-evaluation project and other similar projects with the warden . |
| 5 | In the little white house in the almond and lemon country of South-Eastern Spain where I stayed last summer every midday meal started with the tomato and onion salad . |
| 6 | Having been awarded my red beret , I went on to RAF Brize Norton where I completed seven parachute jumps and was awarded my ‘ wings ’ . |
| 7 | Then she was driven back to the squat , where she spent all afternoon putting up her curtains where none had been , or replacing curtains for which she had no feeling . |
| 8 | Belvoir was not her only house , for her late husband the 9th Duke restored Haddon Hall where she took particular pleasure in the rose terraces . |
| 9 | Rosalba tried to respond , turning to her friend and patting down a curl or two round her face ; then she adjusted the combs which held her friend 's hair behind her ears , where she wore small gold hoops . |
| 10 | She had to go to the Garfield Centre , where she taught one day a week , to see the inmates perform their Christmas entertainment . |
| 11 | Her own first excavation was at the Devil 's Tower , Gibraltar , where she found Neanderthal skull fragments . |
| 12 | The doctor sent her to hospital where she stayed some time , and had X-ray examinations , and I was so worried . |
| 13 | Lesley , who is single , was taken straight to the operating theatre where she underwent immediate surgery on severe injuries to her stomach . |
| 14 | Mrs Easby , 58 , has returned to her house in Minors Crescent , Darlington , from Harefield Hospital , Middlesex , where she underwent life-saving surgery to replace one of her lungs . |
| 15 | Then he remembered that the cottage had been sold , the money placed in trust for his father 's mother , the income paying the fees of the nursing home where she sat all day rocking herself in a wheelchair — Alzheimer 's disease . |
| 16 | I Call 'd at the House , where you said I shou 'd dine , |
| 17 | You could write something similar to the following example anywhere in your program where you wished this calculation to be carried out . |
| 18 | Then she started going on about her new red tap-shoes , and how the music nun wanted to teach her violin because she had such good pitch , and we all joined up in a long line , each with a hand stretched out on to the should of the one in front , and we began to march round her , chanting very softly , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … " and then louder and louder as we danced away from her still in our long Indian file , till we got right to the top of our street where we played another game altogether , totally ignoring the yells of fury from the lamp-post , and when our mums called us in to tea we all ran in and forgot about her . |
| 19 | As a change from wet feet and sightseeing I was smuggled into an English-language class where we drank home-made slivovitz and one of the students , a lugubrious-looking individual called Miroslav who played the bassoon in the Moravia Philharmonic Orchestra , invited me to a concert the following evening . |
| 20 | Do n't you know that Freddie Nash is now sharing Major Hallett 's cottage , where we had that party before Christmas ? |
| 21 | Yet with its residual gentility , its variegated forest of a garden where we had practical botany lessons , and the original Victorian mansion building with its labyrinth of poky rooms and winding staircases , it must have seemed that the convent was an accidental inheritance , never really meant for us , and thereby reminding us that we had come into our own ; we had by right something more than had once been intended for us . |
| 22 | Blair and I also walked out to another , superb loch where we had splendid sport , Scarilode ; about two hours ' walk along a good track from Market Stance , past Rueval , where Charles Edward Stewart lay waiting for Flora Macdonald , prior to his flight from the Hebrides . |
| 23 | I encountered the reality of a penitential pilgrimage the moment I woke and levered my stiff limbs off the hard school-room floor where we slept last night , and winced as my blister contacted the floor . |
| 24 | Mr. Wilberforce and I agree that where we knew one instance of it thirty years ago , there are now a dozen or more . ’ |
| 25 | At first we travelled through magnificent stretches of forest , where we saw occasional bushbuck and many black-and-white colobus monkeys . |
| 26 | Like the one at that farm where we stayed last summer . ’ |
| 27 | Contraction at just one tenth of this rate seemed small beer to astronomers , and was presented by the popular media ( where they took any notice at all ) as another example of a way-out scientific idea that had been undermined by more careful studies . |
| 28 | And they said you know th there should have been a way round it where they kept this couple in there . |
| 29 | For example , 99.9% of my friends have come from homes where they had major childhood traumas . |
| 30 | On the one hand , the new owners of great country houses accepted the life of the landed gentleman , even where they had little land . |