Example sentences of "where [pers pn] had [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a clear view of the table where she had sat for so long . |
| 2 | These included a photograph of Weisdale Voe , taken from his local in Shetland where he had lived for five years ; photographs of himself and friends on Lost City trips ; and photographs and posters relating to his prime interests , those of a naturalist , a birder , a twitcher . |
| 3 | Tragic Victor Dudley , 59 , who had fallen behind with his mortgage after losing his job , was heartbroken at the thought of leaving the house where he had lived for 30 years . |
| 4 | He remembered the brackish stream where he had fished for pinkeens with — who was it , Tommy Murtagh and Seanin Carty ? — and the mercifully short walk to the National School that in good weather he made in bare feet over stony roads , with in winter a sod of turf for the schoolroom fire crushing the jam sandwich in his satchel . |
| 5 | He was eventually put ashore on the island of Emira where he had to live for six days on coconuts before being rescued and brought to Sydney , Australia . |
| 6 | Volume I covers the period of 1916 to 1930 and concludes with Magritte 's return to Brussels from Paris where he had stayed for nearly three years . |
| 7 | Another man , a colleague in the newspaper industry in London , left the office where he had worked for most of his adult life to travel home for the weekend . |