Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a call came over the radio that there was a problem with one of the pumps downstairs , so seeing I had nothing better to do at that time I went downstairs to give them a hand . |
| 2 | A couple of blocks away is John Smiths , where I met my old friend Robert Clow , in company with his number two , Willie Anderson , current treasurer of the BA . |
| 3 | I lay there in the Bomb Circle where I killed her other son , and I hoped that she was dead , too . |
| 4 | South bank as well 'cause that 's where I started , where I got my first board ever . |
| 5 | I watch the familiar shops and houses go by ; Mum 's old gift shop ( now a video shop ) ; the Arms , where I had my first pint ; Dad 's old garage , still doing business . |
| 6 | I came from a B-Cat prison where I had my own basin and toilet . |
| 7 | Prices ( including flights ) based on the Taj Holiday Village where I stayed my first week start at £566 per person for seven days ' bed and breakfast ( £738 for fourteen days ) . |
| 8 | I waited for another few seconds and then crossed the landing to my own flat where I completed my own process of locking myself in for the night . |
| 9 | A few weeks ago we were fortunate enough to meet in a public house where I bought you half a dozen pints and we engaged in a long and fascinating conversation . |
| 10 | She nodded and strode briskly to the sideboard , where she busied herself pouring coffee . |
| 11 | From our village she travelled by coach to the south , where she made her new home near London . |
| 12 | Returning briefly to Dublin , she next went to Rome and Athens to do more studying before coming to work in the British Museum , and going to live in Knutsford , Cheshire , where she did her greatest work , the bust of Archbishop Alexander , Primate of All Ireland , which stands today in Armagh Cathedral . |
| 13 | Art recoils , growing steadily smaller , tetchier and more tentative , shrinking like a 20th-century Alice , except that , where she retained her imperial dignity unimpaired , he regresses to a tearful fractious child dwarfed by the conflicting pressures of a fragmented adult world . |
| 14 | Within five minutes a young locum arrived and Allison was immediately admitted to the local maternity hospital , where she lost her fourth child . |
| 15 | where you kept my first cautionary letters . |
| 16 | Or I might go telling that young man where you found your young Miracle-Worker . |
| 17 | I bought a French team shirt , and wore it at the Liverpool game where we stuffed them 2–2 . |
| 18 | Much interest was shown in Medau at a recent ‘ Come and Try It ’ day at Nede House , East Grinstead where we held our own alongside aerobic sessions , soroptomists demonstrations , ballet . |
| 19 | From the hold , where everything had its proper place , he fetched a bottle of TCP and a pair of half-wellingtons . |
| 20 | Some German military police took Tribe prisoner and locked him in a barn , where they shot him fifteen minutes later . |
| 21 | The big city station from which they saw off their loved ones to war , from where they left for their honeymoons and holidays , where they kept their romantic trysts under the station clock , has been obliterated or at the very least altered out of all recognition . |
| 22 | Haberdashers ' batting against Johor State at Ceylon CC , Singapore , where they suffered their only defeat in six matches , four of which ended in victory for the touring school . |
| 23 | The Chieftains rarely enjoy their trips to South London , where they suffered their heaviest defeat of the season 16–3 in December . |
| 24 | They 've all been partially excluded from mainstream schools , where they found it hard to fit in . |
| 25 | But there they were working together as a community , there in the great communal fields , where everybody had their own plot , but working together . |
| 26 | Maggie looked at him with interest and he nodded , seeing he had her complete attention . |
| 27 | Allison will be assisting manager Denis Rofe on a consultancy basis from later this week , returning to the Twerton Park ground where he began his managerial career 29 years ago with Bath City . |
| 28 | George , who had two sisters and a brother , attended a private day-school in Eltham and at the age of thirteen entered the Royal Arsenal , where he continued his basic education whilst gaining valuable practical experience . |
| 29 | Leavis 's reputation as a crabbed stylist and boldly innovative thinker who had been rejected by a university where he spent his entire life was largely a figment of his own mind , and so much of his post-war life was devoted to mythologising his own career that it is difficult , by now , to recognise what a conventional figure in his place and day he always was . |
| 30 | He never brought his friends to the house and she had never known where he spent his spare time . |