Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing I played two rounds of golf yesterday … ’ |
| 2 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 3 | ‘ I was taken to Arrowe Park Hospital where I spent four hours having scans and the doctors said he seemed to be OK . |
| 4 | But from my point of view what mattered most was that it bordered Abyssinia , where I hoped one day to be posted . |
| 5 | I went down to the execution yard where I saw three corpses . |
| 6 | The prize for winning ‘ New Faces ’ was a trip to Las Vegas and a three-week cabaret stint at the M.G.M. Grand , where I died four times nightly during each 45-minute spot . |
| 7 | One hot after noon I was cycling on a lonely road to a country house where I had two pupils when I heard a plane buzzing rather low over my head . |
| 8 | Having been awarded my red beret , I went on to RAF Brize Norton where I completed seven parachute jumps and was awarded my ‘ wings ’ . |
| 9 | The last years of her life were divided between Bermuda and Plandome , Long Island , where she built herself an Italian-style villa and where she died 29 October 1924 . |
| 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 | It has been disclosed that within a short time of leaving Aberdeen Royal Infirmary yesterday where she stayed three nights and underwent an operation to remove a piece of fish lodged in her throat she was entertaining guests . |
| 12 | The first woman controller of Radio 2 has risen from the BBC typing pool , where she started 32 years ago . |
| 13 | I Call 'd at the House , where you said I shou 'd dine , |
| 14 | He took me to lunch at a discreetly ill-lit restaurant and then to an hotel on the Ile St Louis , where we passed two hours of the afternoon gratifying his fantasies . |
| 15 | ‘ If you take Ebbw Vale as an example , where we rendered 2,500 people redundant in a very close community , we got 1,500 people back to work again within eighteen months by the start-up of nineteen companies . |
| 16 | Mr. Wilberforce and I agree that where we knew one instance of it thirty years ago , there are now a dozen or more . ’ |
| 17 | The words ‘ domestic flight ’ brought a smile and directions to gate 6 , where we found two gentlemen and an X-ray machine . |
| 18 | He 's already put them to good use at Halifax Rugby League club where he enjoyed four years of success . |
| 19 | In 1920 , for example , the notoriously rotund producer G. B. Samuelson made a trip to Universal Studios , where he produced six pictures to learn what he could about the American way of doing things . |
| 20 | He then moved to University where he spent eight years in research and development in Artificial Intelligence and particularly Expert Systems . |
| 21 | Christopher , of Bognor Regis , Sussex , was rushed to hospital , where he spent five days recovering from his ordeal . |
| 22 | In 1851 he began four years ' apprenticeship with his uncle , Dr Owen Roberts of St Asaph , who prepared him for Edinburgh University , where he spent two years at the medical school . |
| 23 | Tony 's feet crunched over white pebbles , on the path that led to the front door of the insurance company where he spent seven hours a day hunched over claim-forms . |
| 24 | While at the city 's Royal Hospital , he took a detour to the maternity ward , where he caused one woman to laugh so much that she had to be whisked away quickly for a premature birth . |
| 25 | He was educated in the Puritan household of John Bruen esquire , of Stapleford in Cheshire , and at Queen 's College , Oxford , where he matriculated 26 October 1599 and graduated BA 30 June 1602 . |
| 26 | Mr Taylor was taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital where he received seven stitches to his nose . |
| 27 | Having become ill in Prestwick , he was admitted to Park Nursing Home , Glasgow , where he died two days later , 5 February 1934 . |
| 28 | On 8 May 1914 he attended a meeting of the BB executive in London but was taken ill and admitted to St Bartholomew 's Hospital , where he died 10 May 1914 . |
| 29 | He then retired to a small property near Ryde on the Isle of Wight , where he spent his later years carrying out improvements to the grounds and where he died 14 February 1853 . |
| 30 | He is also charged with assault causing actual bodily harm to Alan Wilson and Gary Johnson on Sunday May 9 , after which Mr Whelan was taken to Walton Hospital , where he died six days later . |