Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Cambridge , NUPE put a picket around the Union building where I was taking part in a debate and the police wanted to take me in by a side entrance . |
| 2 | Because where I was making boxes it was pulling the skin and was torn apart was n't it ? |
| 3 | After the ceremony , the new Chancellor went ‘ walkabout ’ on her way down the campus to University House where she was having lunch . |
| 4 | Her colleague , Sister Nina Clarey , was on duty in the centre , and she looked round in surprise from the store cupboard where she was checking supplies and peered at Rachel over her glasses . |
| 5 | By the end of the week there was just a simple theory test left where we were asked questions about winds , how to overtake and so on — and then it was certificate time . |
| 6 | In the following analysis , most of the examples have been drawn from one classroom of 9–11 year olds where we were studying collaboration in writing . |
| 7 | We found a tent where they were cooking omelettes filled with clams . |
| 8 | Both had to be rushed to Arrowe Park hospital 's resuscitation unit where they were given oxygen . |
| 9 | He had just come in from sketching workmen out on the Geest , where they were laying water and gas pipes . |
| 10 | On their way to the Lion d'Or , where they were to meet Jack , Iris and Melissa passed old women knitting and gossiping in doorways or leaning out of windows , young women sauntering along with babies in perambulators , and leather-clad youths astride shiny motorbikes parked at the kerbside while they chatted up their mini-skirted girls . |
| 11 | They marched down the road , stopping outside every public house — where they were handed drinks by the landlord — and outside cottages whose inhabitants were awaiting them on their doorsteps . |
| 12 | BAIE member Andy Mitchell has left Edinburgh agency Commpress , where he was publishing director , to become an account manager with Catchline PR in Kirkcaldy . |
| 13 | The victim , in his 30s , was hit in the arm and leg by the gunman outside a Belfast training centre for the disabled where he was learning computer skills . |
| 14 | During these months , Thakin Nu withdrew from active politics and retired to a little town ( or large village ) in the Delta , Moulmeingyun , where he was writing-a book called What is Marxism ? |
| 15 | THE former prime minister of Pakistan , Mohammad Khan Junejo , has died of a heart attack in Baltimore in the United States , where he was undergoing treatment for leukaemia . |
| 16 | Alberts was expected to plead guilty to starting a fire at the Schiller University in Waterloo , south London , where he was studying hotel management . |
| 17 | Lt-Col. Hugo Chávez Frias , the leader of the February 1992 attempted military coup [ see pp. 38759-60 ] , warned in a radio interview conducted from prison where he was awaiting trial , that the dissident Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement ( MBR ) which led the February coup was gaining strength in the army and that it would take up arms once more if there were no drastic changes in the country 's leadership . |
| 18 | The kidnapper has absconded from the probation hostel where he was awaiting sentence after admitting committing the offence.Since going on the run , Thomas Rennie has phoned the woman 's family to say he 's ’ going to get them . ’ |
| 19 | At 10pm PC Golby , also of Hungerford Police Station , Proceeded to the Bear Inn in the centre of the town , where he was to meet Drewitt . |
| 20 | For her , the court case , where he was fined £500 and banned for a year , was her lowest point . |
| 21 | He joins Yuill from Twyfords where he was marketing manager for four years . |
| 22 | After just two years at Max Factor , which he joined in 1986 and where he was marketing director of colouring and skincare products , he was appointed marketing director . |
| 23 | Gerard said that " all kinds of Hyssope do grow in my Garden " and disdained to describe it , any more than Dioscorides did : " as being a plant so well known that it needed none " ( description ) , and it was illustrated in an Italian Herbal published in 1744 , where it was called H. vulgaris . |
| 24 | An ambulance took him to Leeds General Infirmary where it was found John , 72 , was suffering from a vicious flu bug . |
| 25 | Although I was doing Shakespeare for A-level I had never seen any of his plays performed on stage . |
| 26 | So I went to the council , I did n't know anything about social security , even that there was such a thing , so I was given benefit and a hostel to stay in at Elephant and Castle . |
| 27 | ‘ There is a tradition in the company that the newest family member to join gets the least exciting part , so I was given Africa . ’ |
| 28 | I had letters after my name so I was called finance director . ’ |
| 29 | We were now at a point of safety , half a mile from the village of El Ouata , so I was allowed access to supplies in the Land Rover . |
| 30 | At school she was more at ease belting out Jasper Carrot 's Funky Moped than she was deciphering textbooks . |