Example sentences of "where she [vb past] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Displacement activity , ’ she said and headed back to the mantelpiece where she swapped a silver-framed photograph for a white porcelain horse .
2 She found her bearings conventionally enough by working for the US information office in Bogota , Colombia , and then in Rio di Janeiro where she acquired a lifelong love for Brazil .
3 That 's where she had the bloody potato at the back of the bloody thing , there , pushing it in .
4 He could n't dismiss the images , he could n't stay Time 's hand as it turned page after page of that memory-album until tears flooded his eyes at the scenes recalled : his mother , her brown hair screwed into a bun at the back of her head , taking him to see a house at Edgeworthstown where she said a famous woman writer had lived ; he had n't paid much attention , not being interested in books then , but when he grew older he read Maria Edgeworth 's novels and went again for himself to gaze at her home .
5 Ten years or so later , she moved to Rustenburg , where she ran the Grand Hotel , which her eldest son took over when she retired .
6 In 1892 she went with her mother on a visit to South Africa , where she met the feminist Olive Schreiner [ q.v. ] and fell traumatically in love with an unmarriageable man .
7 After beginning a career in showbusiness , she went to entertain the troops in France , where she met the hard-bitten Chicagoan cornettist Jimmy McPartland .
8 At an early age she was taken to the abbey of St Albans , where she made a secret vow of virginity and scratched a cross on its walls as a sign .
9 In one of her first school plays where she played a Dutch doll , Diana only agreed to take the part if she could remain silent .
10 When she saw Hannah in the sequence where she played the tiny organ at Low Birk Hatt , she tried to arrange for her to come to Lartington to try the unique Aeolian pipe organ in the chapel .
11 From where she stood the downward slope and the valley below were clearly visible .
12 She drove to a cottage where she helped an old woman bent in half like a crooked stump into the front passenger seat .
13 Despite warnings by Quebec separatists to stay out of the province , the Queen made a brief visit to the town of Hull , just inside Quebec , where she encountered a peaceful protest by several hundred Quebec nationalists .
14 Earlier she unveiled a plaque at the Field Lane Hostel for homeless men in Kirkby before visiting Acorn Venture Farm in Kirkby where she opened a sensory garden .
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