Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They invited me to punk parties as noisy as tractor factories , where I swigged flat cans of beer , already shaken with a twist of cigarette butt .
2 Presumably it 's also a lot to do with isolation , a lot to do with the fact that there was no one to talk to about the sexual experiences you were having and the only surrounding attitude was one of , ‘ This is something which should n't happen ’ , whereas the situation when I had my first sexual experience was one where I knew other people who were gay whom I could talk to .
3 ‘ There was definitely a point in my life where I wanted black kids , ’ says Neneh .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Mrs Shephard , 52 , a former inspector of schools and senior education officer , has always joked that nothing could have prepared her more for being thrown into the deep end than leaving Cromer , where her father was a cattle dealer , for St Hilda 's College , Oxford , where she read modern languages .
7 After Oxford , Merck joined the staff of Time Out , where she wrote impenetrable reviews and helped to organize the strike which came close to destroying the magazine .
8 This is Eavan 's reward for a cool and competent victory in the national championship at Royal Belfast , where she beat 20-year-old Aideen Rogers in the final ( one hole ) .
9 Her own first excavation was at the Devil 's Tower , Gibraltar , where she found Neanderthal skull fragments .
10 Lesley , who is single , was taken straight to the operating theatre where she underwent immediate surgery on severe injuries to her stomach .
11 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 .
12 In 1876 she went to Girton College where she gained third-class honours in the mathematical tripos in 1880 , and showed her flair for experimentation and designing scientific instruments .
13 She persuaded John to open a school at 226 West 72nd Street which incorporated an office where negotiations to import Tillers could be conducted , and a rehearsal studio where she trained American pupils as well as the troupes .
14 And there are times , like with Phantom of the Opera , where we got wonderful reviews , so we were laughing and happy .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Yeah , I 'm rather concerned that this kind of thing seems to be happening rather a lot , I mean this is so reminiscent of what happened in the , the four maisonette in in Fern Hill where we had empty blocks left for a long time erm becoming a magnet for vandalism and all kinds of everything !
19 where we ate roast duck
20 En route we stopped off in St. Omer with its neat old fashioned square and impressive cathedral where we ate delicious crepes .
21 At first we travelled through magnificent stretches of forest , where we saw occasional bushbuck and many black-and-white colobus monkeys .
22 For example , 99.9% of my friends have come from homes where they had major childhood traumas .
23 I kept banging my way to and from the can , where they had incredible pictures of nude chicks front magazines all over the wall .
24 If , so far as the Continent is concerned , the Viking impact is essentially a West Frankish phenomenon , that is because the Vikings went where they knew moveable wealth was to be had .
25 Eventually they reached a stage where they became integrated units .
26 It turned out to be the food market , where they sold swollen watermelons and aubergines and strange shaped fruits .
27 We used to go on Lord Street and he used to be where they sold luscious cakes .
28 The scents of north African cooking , of couscous , of saffron and cumin and turmeric j street-markets , where they sold powdered dyes and spices , sticks of sandalwood for burning , little piles of henna powder and ground indigo .
29 The caddie house was their bar where they drank bottled beer bought at the club door — but more of the Artisans later .
30 In London the situation was very similar to those of Glasgow and Edinburgh , particularly in that many deaf adults had been educated at the Old Kent Road Asylum where they received religious instruction from two earnest ministers , the Rev. Henry Mason , Rector of Bermondsey , and the Rev. John Townsend .
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