Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | She was rushed to Northampton General Hospital where she underwent several hours of surgery , including a tracheotomy operation . |
| 33 | Then he remembered that the cottage had been sold , the money placed in trust for his father 's mother , the income paying the fees of the nursing home where she sat all day rocking herself in a wheelchair — Alzheimer 's disease . |
| 34 | The first woman controller of Radio 2 has risen from the BBC typing pool , where she started 32 years ago . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | I Call 'd at the House , where you said I shou 'd dine , |
| 38 | You could write something similar to the following example anywhere in your program where you wished this calculation to be carried out . |
| 39 | And there are times , like with Phantom of the Opera , where we got wonderful reviews , so we were laughing and happy . |
| 40 | We eventually got away from the station and camped two hours later near a marsh , where we shot some duck for dinner , and two lily-trotters for our collection . |
| 41 | Then she started going on about her new red tap-shoes , and how the music nun wanted to teach her violin because she had such good pitch , and we all joined up in a long line , each with a hand stretched out on to the should of the one in front , and we began to march round her , chanting very softly , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … " and then louder and louder as we danced away from her still in our long Indian file , till we got right to the top of our street where we played another game altogether , totally ignoring the yells of fury from the lamp-post , and when our mums called us in to tea we all ran in and forgot about her . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | It is a great pity that not one member of the Liberal Democratic party could be bothered to attend the European Standing Committee this morning , where we debated those matters for nearly two and a half hours . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | Do n't you know that Freddie Nash is now sharing Major Hallett 's cottage , where we had that party before Christmas ? |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 ! |
| 49 | I encountered the reality of a penitential pilgrimage the moment I woke and levered my stiff limbs off the hard school-room floor where we slept last night , and winced as my blister contacted the floor . |
| 50 | ‘ 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 . |
| 51 | Mr. Wilberforce and I agree that where we knew one instance of it thirty years ago , there are now a dozen or more . ’ |
| 52 | where we ate roast duck |
| 53 | En route we stopped off in St. Omer with its neat old fashioned square and impressive cathedral where we ate delicious crepes . |
| 54 | At first we travelled through magnificent stretches of forest , where we saw occasional bushbuck and many black-and-white colobus monkeys . |
| 55 | Also we went down to the H.Q. at Pages Park where we saw some men putting up photographs of the line in the past . |
| 56 | Like the one at that farm where we stayed last summer . ’ |
| 57 | The words ‘ domestic flight ’ brought a smile and directions to gate 6 , where we found two gentlemen and an X-ray machine . |
| 58 | We were taken to the XX hospital where they took many photos and asked questions . |
| 59 | Contraction at just one tenth of this rate seemed small beer to astronomers , and was presented by the popular media ( where they took any notice at all ) as another example of a way-out scientific idea that had been undermined by more careful studies . |
| 60 | And they said you know th there should have been a way round it where they kept this couple in there . |