Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went very red , and seeing he 'd scored , Will added slyly : ‘ I ai n't going to make trouble , leastways not if th'bist sensible . |
| 2 | He sticks to his post at the university — where he gets attacked as a liberal by the hard-line whites , and denounced by the violent blacks as he steers his genuinely multi-racial ship on its course . |
| 3 | For the final two years of his schooling he switched to Kingston College of Further Education , where he became fascinated by British political history ( ‘ I was living in the nineteenth century , ’ he says ) . |
| 4 | It also led to his enjoying a considerable reputation on the Continent , where he became acquainted with leading intellectuals such as Marin Mersenne , Pierre Gassendi , and Rene Descartes . |
| 5 | Sukarno was sent to Surabaya , where he experienced loneliness and sought shelter in the Theosophical Society library where he became acquainted with the great Europeans from Rousseau to Marx . |
| 6 | By July 1988 , however , the Uprising had reached a stage where he felt constrained to erect a constitutional ( and physical ) barrier to protect the East Bank of Jordan from what might happen . |
| 7 | where he got cemented in — |
| 8 | He let me go , and I massaged my arm instead , where he had gripped me . |
| 9 | He had travelled in Italy and Sicily , where he had studied the Greek temples , he became the surveyor to two city companies , and was a London District Surveyor . |
| 10 | It was more redolent of English public school and Oxford , where he had studied law . |
| 11 | Sir Robert Muldoon , the former National Party leader and Prime Minister in 1975-84 , condemned the government 's welfare cuts and said on his weekly radio programme on Nov. 17 that he would leave Parliament ( where he had represented an Auckland constituency for over 30 years ) early in 1992 . |
| 12 | Not quite so confidently as in Stratford ; or in Oxford , of course , where he had memorised whole sentences from the Jan Morris guide . |
| 13 | That took him back to the ‘ Nam , where he had joined up with the Summoner and later fought with the VC against the Ivans . |
| 14 | Following the United States invasion of Panama on Dec. 20 to remove Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega from power [ see pp. 37112-13 ] , Noriega on Jan. 3 voluntarily left the papal nunciature , where he had sought refuge , and gave himself up to the US authorities after being persuaded by the papal nuncio , Mgr José Sebastián Laboa , that asylum in a third country was not a viable option . |
| 15 | The indictments came after the principal investigator , Rosario Priore , had returned from a visit to the United States , where he had sought access to US records . |
| 16 | He was reminded of the statements of the stableman who had joined him for a drink at the Bull , situated at the end of Cross Street , and of the café owner where he had stopped for a fried breakfast . |
| 17 | The smell of leather permeated the air and at once Emily was back in her father 's storehouse where he had kept mountains of skins ready to be cut and fashioned into boots and shoes . |
| 18 | In that year he began campaigning against the brutal system of forced labour employed by Leopold II , king of the Belgians , as absolute personal ruler of the Congo Free State , even though this forced him to leave Elder Dempster , where he had become head of the Congo department . |
| 19 | She blamed his breakdown on the university , where he had become ‘ a different boy ’ . |
| 20 | Frederica was put in mind , mutatis mutandis , starting with the intention , of Miss Havisham bidding the boy Pip to play , of the brewery yard where he had met Herbert Pocket , which ( the yard ) irked her , because she could not properly visualise it . |
| 21 | At the press conference , Waldegrave recalled a visit to a UK university , where he had noted a visitors ' book full of Japanese names . |
| 22 | What , after all , could be more suitable for the Lionisers than the hotel within whose walls Dickens spent so much time , and where he had completed Nicholas Nickleby , the Albion ‘ where we had that merry night two years ago ’ , he wrote to his friend Forster , an occasion made the merrier by indulgence in the landlord 's ‘ excellent hollands ’ . |
| 23 | He went into the downstairs room where he had seen Marcus through the window . |
| 24 | He unfolded it carefully , took a stub of pencil from his ammunition pouch , and marked a cross where he had seen the enemy cavalry . |
| 25 | She belongs , surely , where he had seen her a thousand times as he came out of Happy Homes , just above the end pinnacle of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel . |
| 26 | The girls were still there , standing where he had seen them earlier . |
| 27 | He had seen them at the County Show , where he had gone for the rabbits , all those girls with plaits and scrubbed faces and clean gloves , doing an exhibition ride . |
| 28 | 2 June Beijing University postgraduate student Chai Qing Feng dies as a result of wounds received during a ‘ brawl ’ at a snack bar near to campus where he had gone with some friends to buy drinks . |
| 29 | She had travelled to Maidenhead to his old address and the new occupants of his small mansion had no idea where he had gone . |
| 30 | Wood died 19 December 1865 at 49 Sussex Gardens , Hyde Park , London , where he had gone for medical advice , and was buried in the churchyard at Hetton . |