Example sentences of "where [pers pn] had been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , in Danu , I had a meaning ; it was where I had been born and lived . |
| 2 | And I remember running into the ward where I had been treated , finding one of the nurses who had looked after me and giving her a big hug and her crying . |
| 3 | It was the music that had brought me in from the hall where I had been lying . |
| 4 | From the far edge of the terrace I could see down to where I had been lying only an hour or two before . |
| 5 | Suddenly I stepped out into her path from the gateway where I had been waiting . |
| 6 | Early on a Sunday morning I walked up Plateros and then through the narrow streets to where I had been told a bus , colectivo — some form of transport — would leave . |
| 7 | I was returning from a hospital where I had been visiting someone , and I was last in a bus queue . |
| 8 | It was neither bright , nor ornamented , nor ill-fitting , but she was such an unfamiliar sight out of boy 's breeches and working boots and fustian shirt that the company burst out laughing , and barracked and whistled and cheered and blew kisses at her on her long walk from the cottage where she had been hiding herself . |
| 9 | She herself was British , in fact , but having spent several years as a graduate student in California , where she had been converted to radical feminism , she now thought of herself as spiritually an American , and tried as far as possible to speak like one . |
| 10 | ‘ Listen , my dear , ’ she said to Alexandra , summoned flushed and impatient from the orchard where she had been settling her new charges in and attempting , as tactfully as possible , to exclude Murphy from the process , ‘ Mrs Langley says George is heartened beyond anything by your visit . |
| 11 | Why was it then that he could n't remember where she had been shot ? |
| 12 | She then pointed to the recipe — Turkish Stuffing for a whole Roast Sheep — delighted by the disparity between the thought of this sheep and the few ounces of meat a week which begun jotting down recipes for this book after she had been sent back to England in 1945 , owing to her health , from New Delhi , where she had been living with her husband . |
| 13 | When the door burst open he sat back on his heels and almost toppled over , and the child straightened up from where she had been thrust against the bed . |
| 14 | She frequently attacked her attendants and discharged herself from institutions where she had been sent for treatment . |
| 15 | He waylaid Stella in the paint-frame where she had been sent to boil rabbit glue on the Bunsen burner . |
| 16 | A picture came to her of the shaggy wanderers huddling together in the bus shelter at the top of the road where she had been born and bred . |
| 17 | The three-room cottage where she had been born had lost its interest for Eve as her dislike of the Westwards had grown . |
| 18 | Gertrude Joyce , at least , found it hard to accept that she was a foreigner in the town where she had been born and she had lived until she was over twenty-five years old . |
| 19 | Both were nuns in the same religious order , one in the north of England , the other in France where she had been interned throughout the Occupation . |
| 20 | It was just a place where she had been left , and as she grew out of infancy she knew that it was her mother who had left her there . |
| 21 | But in the society where she had been brought up marriage was still very much the expected norm . |
| 22 | Fired by an intensely feminine and creative energy , she was spotted as a teenager by her first impresario , who snapped her up off the streets where she had been making her living and introduced her to the torrid cabaret life of the French capital . |
| 23 | Needless to say , Sancie had no trouble surviving ; she was , according to the commemorative plaque you can read by the bridge , cast ‘ gently ’ ashore from the ‘ furious ’ waters at a place ‘ three bowshots distant ’ from where she had been thrown in . |
| 24 | Penelope hesitated , hardly remembering where she had been going . |
| 25 | She died in her sleep at Nyack Hospital , north of New York , where she had been admitted on 9 March suffering from congestive heart failure . |
| 26 | ‘ That was my friend , Estelle , ’ Margrida said , coming out from the drawing-room where she had been answering the telephone . |
| 27 | She would be in Mountsorrel , where she had been told to leave the coach , by three . |
| 28 | She fetched herself a packet of sandwiches from the counter and then came back to where she had been sitting . |
| 29 | The little girl was on her own a few yards from the rug where she had been sitting eating some moments before . |
| 30 | She unfolded Marek 's exercise book and began reading the spidery writing where she had been forced to stop . |