Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ended up where I felt the whole world was on my shoulders . |
| 2 | I went by the Galerie de Diane and then down the stairs leading to the basement in the Pavillon de Flore where I followed the underground passage , badly lit — but where were the kitchens ? |
| 3 | where I mucked the whole thing up trying to get the |
| 4 | I said goodnight and went to my own room where I found the sleeping-car attendant had duly lowered my bed and laid a chocolate truffle on the pillow . |
| 5 | Mrs James then told the court how she and Mr Loxton had been transported by the police to Nottingham some time later , where she saw the same man in a street there . |
| 6 | Moments later Rachel was beside the patient again , where she administered the antianginal medication spray beneath his tongue , then , closing his mouth , put the oxygen mask over his nose to assist his breathing . |
| 7 | I dropped the axe , wiped my temples and joined her where she held the incandescent bung away from her skin . |
| 8 | Where you watched the distant crash , |
| 9 | But that 's not where we saw the red squirrel . |
| 10 | We began at Bakewell , the central town of the Peaks , where we visited the 14th Century church to see its celebrated collection of mediaeval monuments , did some souvenir shopping and could n't resist a genuine Bakewell Pudding before going to nearby Chatsworth , the ‘ Palace of the Peak ’ . |
| 11 | We began at Bakewell , the central town of the Peaks , where we visited the 14th Century church to see its celebrated collection of mediaeval monuments , did some souvenir shopping and could n't resist a genuine Bakewell Pudding before going on to nearby Chatsworth , the ‘ Palace of the Peak ’ . |
| 12 | Few visible signs of such domestic industries remain , but the fine octagonal market house on the village green at Harrold is where work was distributed among the lace-makers , and where they brought the finished lace to be paid for by the employers . |
| 13 | It is a measure of the fundamental instincts of Citrine and his colleagues that , where they had the greater power to centralise , it was centralisation , and not devolved responsibility , which was their watchword . |
| 14 | The Honours were presented at sessions of the Parliament , where they symbolised the royal presence , particularly when an infant sovereign could not be present . |
| 15 | The Remingtons emigrated to America in the 18th century , where they founded the great engineering company which bears their name . |
| 16 | A Tribunal of Commissioners echoes these sentiments in R(S)4182 , where they described the judicial process in tribunals as ‘ fair play in action ’ . |
| 17 | He was quickly surrounded by police and taken to a neighbour 's house where they broke the tragic news that his four children — Sharon , aged five , and her brothers , Francis , four , Martin three , and Stefan , one — were dead . |
| 18 | His first cure was at Yalding in the Medway valley , where he succeeded the radical printing preacher John Strowd . |
| 19 | Horne was educated at Newport Grammar School , joined Newport 's Congregational church and , with the ministry in mind , went to Glasgow University ( MA , 1886 ) and then Mansfield College , Oxford , where he took the three-year college course in theology . |
| 20 | ‘ Sweetie , you are looking at an old moose who just ca n't figure out where he took the wrong trail and he 'll never get back up that hill again . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't think so , ’ he replied sullenly , unrolling his sleeves and going to the chair , where he collected the burgundy waistcoat given to him by the old man . |
| 22 | Reagan 's formative years were spent in a series of small Illinois towns — Tampico , Monmouth , Dixon and finally Eureka where he attended the small church-related Eureka College from 1928 until 1932 . |
| 23 | News of the men 's golf included Mr. H. le Fleming Shepherd 's efforts in the Amateur Championship at St Andrew 's where he reached the 3rd round . |
| 24 | At Canniesburn Hospital , where he spent the major part of his working life , his close friend and colleague , Professor W Henry Reid , said that Prof Gibson was one of the city 's finest sons . |
| 25 | Sir Keith Joseph offers a flexi-time history according to which , in the same speech where he entertained the spectacular belief that Britain 's streets had been plunged into insecurity ‘ for the first time in a century and a half ’ , he also conjured with a more modest timescale whereby ‘ such words as good and evil , such stress on self-discipline and standards have been out of favour since the war ’ . |
| 26 | He went first to a choir school , St Michael 's College , Bexley , then , having failed his Eleven-Plus , to Oakfield School , Dulwich , where he received the private education on which his parents were so keen , although that meant sacrifices for them , such as giving up smoking . |
| 27 | In 1734 he was appointed Bishop of Cloyne , eventually moving to Oxford in 1752 , where he died the next year . |
| 28 | On the morning of 19 April , Kadir Kurt was detained in Birk village , district of Bismail near Diyarbakir , and taken for interrogation to the Gendarmerie Battalion Headquarters where he died the same night . |
| 29 | Mike shrugged easily , but his right hand crept around to the rear pocket of his overall , where he kept the big Stilson spanner . |
| 30 | The first he knew of it was a warning call from high above where he saw the angry silhouette of a golden eagle stooping . |