Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Obviously , where I actually went wrong on the
2 The Grant Hall Hotel was next door to Zion United Church where I still spent many weekday evenings in boys ' work , and it was now handy to finish at the church and then cross over to the radio station for the late night shift .
3 In November we were at the annual bazaar at the English ( episcopal ) church , where we also made many contacts .
4 Software development , especially in areas such as taxonomic and other scientific computing , has been a major area of weakness , where we definitely lacked in-house expertise prior to the appointment of a Taxonomic Computing specialist .
5 Does the Minister consider it fair that , if a child is born in East Anglia , it has a far better chance of survival than if it is born in Yorkshire or in my region , where we recently lost five intensive care cots ?
6 But they said that it was a different matter over in the west , around Appleby way , where they generally paid more money but worked you very hard and gave you little meat .
7 He may have remembered St Mary 's Tyne Dock , where he freely sanctioned certain things that were illegal because the parish church council wanted them for purposes of devotion .
8 He was accordingly arrested and taken to Vine Street Police Station where he duly provided two specimens of breath in the intoximeter .
9 Dorahy , previously No 2 in charge at Aussie outfit Newcastle Knights , is no stranger to England after spells with Leigh , Hull KR and Halifax , where he also had 12 months as coach .
10 He was often away in the West Riding , where he now owned several woollen mills which had been the basis of his father 's fortune .
11 She came in front beside Patrick and Jim crept into the back , where he promptly fell asleep .
12 His first formal education was received in the reading school kept at Ottery by ‘ Old Dame Key ’ , a relative of Sir Joshua Reynolds , and at six years old he progressed to his father 's grammar school , where he quickly surpassed all his contemporaries .
13 Much of the Alliance advance occurred in its traditional heartlands of the north , where it successfully exploited economic and political insecurities of the local bourgeoisie .
14 The east-west road has only been examined once since the 1920s , during excavations on the west gate , where it evidently comprised three separate surfaces ; the latest ( road III ) can probably be identified with Jack and Hayter 's later roadway ; the middle one ( II ) was contemporary with the mid fourth-century gate and may be a localized resurfacing ; while the lowest ( I ) must represent the east-west route in the preceding centuries .
15 I quickened my step to reach the quieter part of the hall , where it always seemed darker .
16 To begin with I found the playing a little mannered , although I soon became involved in the thoughtful and musicianly approach of these artists .
17 Shaun was more difficult as a personality , although I never had any fights with him myself .
18 ‘ Yes , he had a lot of very strong , incredibly positive influences on many artists , and I am one of those artists , although I never exchanged two words with him .
19 It 's good news for hunting , although I never gave much for Mr Kinnock 's observations in the first place . ’
20 A few weeks later I noticed that the anemone crab had disappeared and as more time went by , my fish stock began to decrease , although I never found any dead fish in the tank .
21 It should be clear from the previous chapters that although I still had some sense of personal identity when I became anorexic , I simply did not have the opportunity or know-how to form an Eriksonian ego identity .
22 Between the ages of 33 and 33–½ my mind changed , I think due to mere terror , or the outrageous ageing process , or gross deliberate indulgence , or love and emotion , or noticing that all around me friends and enemies were having children and were tons happier than I ever thought possible , or all of a sweet serious sudden it just seemed the only thing to do .
23 ‘ These people got abusive because we would n't take their drugs so I just grabbed this bag of s*** and poured it over the floor .
24 In England even the playground football matches were black versus white , so I gradually became conscious of the distinction , aware of colour .
25 ‘ All my school life , I was under the impression I was not completely stupid but pretty dumb so I never had that oomph .
26 The Sabena flight out left Edinburgh well over an hour late , so I only had fifteen minutes or so for my Naples transfer at Brussels .
27 I 'm afraid they came down the steps and chose the path leading away from me , so I only saw those three at a distance .
28 The frontispiece from a copy of the music from the Peer Gynt suite by Grieg was a beautiful piece of artwork even before it was decorated , so I only arranged some flowers in two of the corners , rather than all the way round , which would have overpowered the original design .
29 During the struggle police said Annie Murphy injured her foot , although she later refused medical treatment .
30 Brown remained her adviser for over a decade , although she also sought occasional assistance from the painter ( Sir ) Edward Burne-Jones [ q.v . ] .
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