Example sentences of "where he [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PLUMBER Peter Rowe , 53 , has bought the Wheal Basset Inn at Carnkie , Cornwall — the pub where he had his first drink 38 years ago . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | His grandfather was retired Navy , action in the Pacific and off Korea , where he had his own command . |
| 4 | Scarcely any aspect of life in the countries where he passes his voluntary exile has failed to incur his pessimistic censure . |
| 5 | There is no certainty either as to where he wrote his main English works : the treatise known as Mixed Life , giving advice to the upmarket man of affairs who also wished to create opportunities to cultivate his inner spiritual life ( one manuscript describes it as " a luitel Boc was writen to a worldli lord to teche him hou he schulde haue him in his state in ordeynd loue to god and to his euencristene " ) , and the two books of The Scale of Perfection . |
| 6 | into a well , where he gets his all , his fresh water from it . |
| 7 | He was recently quest of honour at a formal dinner at Lake Hall , where he spent his early University days . |
| 8 | Among the more bizarre events after Mr Hancock 's demise was a police swoop on the quarters where he spent his last days . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He then retired to a small property near Ryde on the Isle of Wight , where he spent his later years carrying out improvements to the grounds and where he died 14 February 1853 . |
| 12 | I do n't know where he got them all from but it was always very interesting , and we worked our way through an album that was subsequently released . |
| 13 | Maybe that 's where he got his bird-pulling reputation . |
| 14 | In 1752 he prepared a catalogue of the contents of his Mill Hill garden and later had this bound with the seventh edition of the Dictionary where he made his own marginal notes on items of interest , including remarkable first flowerings in Britain . |
| 15 | He died in the Bridgemans ' house in Teddington , where he made his nuncupative will on or about 27 September 1674 , leaving all his books and his best hat to his brother Philip . |
| 16 | He would go to Famagusta , where he thought his Genoese friends would help him . |
| 17 | After about 2 miles , Sir Robert Hamilton chose a position on the muir where he thought his amateur troops might have a strategic advantage . |
| 18 | He went to Illinois in the United States of America , from where he summoned his closest followers ( from Santa Cruz , Santo da Serra and Machico ) , whose descendants still live in that state , especially in Springfield and Jacksonville . |
| 19 | His father owned several mills , not just in North Carolina , and Stanley Pons worked in one of these in Louisiana where he met his present wife , Sheila , and then he became manager of a restaurant that the family owned in Palm Beach Florida . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He attended the Liverpool School of Pharmacy and began work at a pharmacy in Blackpool where he met his future wife Betty . |
| 22 | He did not look particularly inspired at the start of the day , but survived to make the semi-final where he met his old rival , Ben Spijkers , of the Netherlands . |
| 23 | In 1943 he retired to Somerset , where he maintained his wide interests , which included Japanese prints , Chinese porcelain , biologists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , and wine : he retained a personal cellar at Caius , which he visited annually . |
| 24 | Here they expanded their activities into general building work , John Green turning his attention to the architectural side of the business ; but c .1820 he moved to Newcastle upon Tyne , from where he established his extensive professional practice in the area of Northumberland and county Durham . |
| 25 | He made for London , where he resumed his former way of life , a mixture of study and worldly pleasures , but never losing sight of the main objective . |
| 26 | In 1948 he moved to the ancient house of Daneway , near Sapperton , where he ground his own flour , baked his own bread and made his own paper on which to print his poems on his own press . |
| 27 | In 1915 the New South Wales Swimming Association invited Duke Kahanamoku to the Domain Baths in Sydney where he beat his own world record for the 100 yards with a time of 53.8 seconds . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He travelled back by way of Westbury-on-Trym , where he paid his personal thanks to the Wedgwood brothers at Cote House . |
| 30 | ‘ Our mother says she does n't know where he puts it all , he 's so thin , ’ Carrie said , and as soon as she had spoken it struck her that she had never talked to them about her mother before . |