Example sentences of "where [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went off to America to live in New York where I knew one person . |
| 2 | The first time , I went by boat , the second time by plane and finally by helicopter — to the nearby island of Moorea , where I spent several days in search of the perfect image . |
| 3 | I am nineteen years old and at college in rural Devon , away from friends and family and the city where I spent ten years of my life . |
| 4 | Tyrer said : ‘ I played rugby league until I was 17 years old and even played for Wigan Under-11s at Wembley , where I kicked six goals . |
| 5 | And that 's where I got this job with |
| 6 | I began to have a series of nightmares where I experienced painful sensations up and down my spine , weird chanting and a feeling of terror . |
| 7 | I 'll tell you where I had terrific service once , I ca n't remember what it was for now , it 's it 's a shop , it 's called Arcade Records because originally it was in the arcade , but it 's now just above the Cannon Cinema in between you know on Chapel Bar on the left hand side . |
| 8 | I gave it one of its earliest tests on my first trip to Coombe Abbey at Coventry , where I had sixty pounds of bream ( weighed ) and only stopped catching when I ran out of groundbait . |
| 9 | So some of us went to Victoria Falls and I went to Durban where I had some relatives and attended the July Handicap , the only horse race in the world that runs through the streets . |
| 10 | and you 've seen one of his craft places where I met this lady , she sort of works there or |
| 11 | Meanwhile at least one offspring of the NPA flourishes — the ‘ English Through Activity ’ programme in Swaziland , where I found similar activity and enthusiasm in schools , talked to a committed supervisor who saw her role entirely as getting her materials — including issues of English Ladybird books — to rural schools as efficiently as possible and of encouraging ‘ active learning ’ , ( but of what and why she took little heed ) . |
| 12 | My father died when I was quite young and at ten years of age I went into a poor old orphanage where I stayed four years . |
| 13 | It seemed perfectly natural that I should spend one evening being waited on by uniformed retainers at the home of an important industrialist whose son I taught , and the next in a seedy bar drinking beer with a group of workers from the factory where I gave private courses in technical English . |
| 14 | As I get older I am coming to believe that our lives are planned before we are born … things happen so fast sometimes as you look back … you can see the pattern plain as day , where you took some turn , or events happened that you had nothing to do with . |
| 15 | The Doctor whispered to her , ‘ And that 's where you saw this ghost of yours ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I can not imagine where you got that idea . ’ |
| 17 | Now I wonder where you got that expression from ? |
| 18 | ‘ Ca n't think where you got that impression . ’ |
| 19 | She should have said , I do n't know where you got these things , but please put them away before somebody sees the sun glinting off them and assumes it 's me spying on the guests . |
| 20 | Would you like to tell me where you went last night ? |
| 21 | Obviously with a computer background , I wanted to go into a business where you had large volumes . |
| 22 | wonder where you bought these clocks ? |
| 23 | Two years later Moyra moved on to North DEVON where she attracted new members by giving displays , the most challenging ( for performers ) being at the village fete in a field of long grass which hid numerous rabbit holes ( among other things ) … still nothing ventured nothing gained ! |
| 24 | Margaret Charlwood started her movement career at the age of six following a serious road accident which it was feared would permanently limit the movement of her legs — eleven years later she won a scholarship to the Arts Educational School in London where she studied all forms of dance , specialising in ballet . |
| 25 | Oh , I 've been with Joyce since then , when had , used to live at Southwold , or near Southwold , and eh , we used to go there and she , she got killed where all the , she had a , a garden wall of felt sort of Fred Flintstone one , and there was a bend on the Ipswich erm , oh Ipswich Lowestoft road , right where she had this cottage |
| 26 | And so it happened that Jenny came to live with Winnie Bailey , rejoicing in her new flat and the modern kitchen where she had full scope for her passion for cooking . |
| 27 | The Queen Mother , who will be 93 this year , said she felt ‘ much better ’ as she left the hospital where she spent 63 hours . |
| 28 | The Queen Mother , who will be 93 this year , said she felt ‘ much better ’ as she left the hospital where she spent 63 hours . |
| 29 | He , knowing of vindictive blood in her family , got her kidnapped and dumped on St Kilda , where she spent several years , with a waiting-maid for company . |
| 30 | Esther paid her first visit to Italy , where she spent three months at the Università per Stranieri in Perugia , learned some Italian , drank a great deal of wine , took up with a middle-aged American art historian and began to look at paintings . |