Example sentences of "where [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and I , I do n't know whether that was where I got my first idea of being a nurse . |
| 2 | My homes are a far cry from the attic flat in Bloomsbury where I had my first set in 1958 . |
| 3 | Because I happened to be fluent in French , I was promoted 11 months later to loan officer and assigned to the French-speaking Arab countries of North Africa , where I made my first international calls . |
| 4 | Those living in the more remote area like Albany , where I did my first workshop , are truly isolated . |
| 5 | Mark the spot on the surface just beyond the distance you can see down the burrow , and this is where you dig your first hole . |
| 6 | Vons , in turn , became her way out of Midway City , Orange County , the Californian backwater where she spent her first 20 years . |
| 7 | Bao Van Brandenburg started her career in jewellery design in Geneva , where she opened her first boutique in 1978 . |
| 8 | Once through the boulder field , a grassy sward high above picturesque Crummack Dale led steadily up to a broad plateau near Long Scar , from where we had our first view of the distant and brooding Ingleborough rising from a vast array of moor and limestone pavements , shimmering in the summer heat like a huge field of cotton grass . |
| 9 | ‘ It must have been in the forest — ’ Joan said dreamily ‘ — because that is where they found him next day . |
| 10 | PLUMBER Peter Rowe , 53 , has bought the Wheal Basset Inn at Carnkie , Cornwall — the pub where he had his first drink 38 years ago . |
| 11 | In 1908 he became assistant works manager and chief draughtsman at the French Westinghouse Company 's brake and signal works in Paris , where he had his first contacts with French railway engineers . |
| 12 | Among the more bizarre events after Mr Hancock 's demise was a police swoop on the quarters where he spent his last days . |
| 13 | It was where he spent his last years , here at Gads ' Hill Place , in the house which he had coveted as a poverty-stricken child . |
| 14 | And three days before these lines were written , English Heritage set the seal on Eliot 's Kensington associations by putting a plaque on the block where he spent his last and happiest years . |
| 15 | But he stayed on the move and following a scholarship from the Paderewski Foundation travelled to India , where he got food poisoning , Peru , where he taught art for two years , and Morocco where he met his first wife . |
| 16 | Starting his career in the Midlands , over the years Stan worked up both the educational establishment and the country , aiming ever nearer Scotland ; until finally arriving at Carlisle , where he held his last post . |