Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [Wh adv] [pron] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They hurried over to where he had found a previously unseen exit between two large boulders . |
| 2 | The children persisted with the same piece of writing from week to week , taking up from where they had left off usually without a murmur . |
| 3 | Bill would roll his head up from where it had fallen on his shoulder and open his eyes cautiously . |
| 4 | When J. came back from his course , we simply carried on from where we had left off . |
| 5 | Henceforth she must carry on from where she had started that momentous morning in Goddy 's office . |
| 6 | Then he reached out and drew the hair back from where it had fallen across her face . |
| 7 | Three times she stopped before reaching Charing Cross , abruptly breaking the current of pedestrians so people stepped around her , glancing , while she said , ‘ No … ’ and turned back from where she had come , only to turn again , move on . |
| 8 | There were plenty more jobs to come back to when you had spent all your money and caught hepatitis . |
| 9 | In between the various tests there was a delay of two or three days when we would be left on tenterhooks in case we had failed ; every afternoon people would be told to pack their bags and would be deposited at Aubagne station to take a train back to where they had come from . |
| 10 | It called out in alarm , turned , raced back to where it had come from and then disappeared . |
| 11 | Then I started the engine and drove back to where I had seen the Pan-Am Norte sign . |
| 12 | In spite of my difficulties , all the officers and men showed great kindness and patience ; except for one Australian officer who did not disguise the fact that he would have been only too happy to send me back to where I had come from . |
| 13 | She paid her bill and wandered back to where she had parked the car in a shady spot under an orange tree in a square — She did n't know a lot about Fernando Serra , she realised with a dull bumping of her heart . |
| 14 | Soon the stern anchor had been paid out and the Ariadne was back to where she had started , the buoy nudging the midships port side . |
| 15 | Always the same circular conversation , leading , through every variation , back to where she had started and seemed likely to remain . |
| 16 | With a happy smile on her extraordinarily beautiful face , and the memory of a man with blue eyes in her mind , she wandered back to where she had left her car , and Ellie being Ellie , who was totally incapable off passing anything that looked even remotely interesting , it was another hour before she finally got to it . |