Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would send dignity to the devil , where it came from . ’ |
| 2 | I have no idea who got that extra money or where it came from . |
| 3 | The Undo command gives you a second chance when you delete a block of text in error by allowing you to replace it in the document exactly where it came from . |
| 4 | The term first appeared in the nonsense works of Edward Lear , but where it came from no one knows . |
| 5 | She had never questioned where it came from , though she knew deep inside . |
| 6 | Cadbury World is a permanent exhibition devoted entirely to Chocolate — where it came from , who first drank the mysterious potion , when it became eating chocolate and the part Cadbury played in this fascinating story . |
| 7 | We do n't know what it is or where it came from , but there 's obviously something in it ! ’ |
| 8 | Where it came from goodness only knows , but it survived illness , unhappiness and the hum drum of Roundhay . |
| 9 | Is that where it came from ? ’ |
| 10 | Has anyone got an idea where it came from ? |
| 11 | Incidentally , the golden eagle which I mentioned last week did not reappear in Yorkshire 's Nidderdale where it spent at least five days , but it was finally relocated . |
| 12 | It also resulted in the interest in the potential of the Macintosh extending beyond the production area to design and editorial staff where it developed into passionate enthusiasm . |
| 13 | She leaned forward and tapped his hand where it lay on the coverlet , supporting his weight . |
| 14 | On the eastern side of the county , indeed , where it lay along the Bedfordshire border , one acre in every two was dealt with by the Georgian planners . |
| 15 | It had been run nose-first into the boat house where it lay like a huge , sleek beast in an undersized pen , the deep V of the forward end tucked under the gallery on which the three of them were standing . |
| 16 | He visited his father 's body where it lay in the abbey church of Fontrevault . |
| 17 | Everyone had seen the dead dog on the path , bloated and grey and bald where it lay in the mud , and the heaps of excrement , all teeming with the same flies that were sharing their food : and the association flooded their throats like vomit . |
| 18 | With a sudden flash of rage , she hurled the Browning far out across the dock , where it splashed into the water and disappeared . |
| 19 | From the explosive and detonator , a wire ran round the belt to the side , where it connected with a lithium battery similar to and no larger than the sort used to power digital watches . |
| 20 | Some of us went along and parked at Welshpool Station and took a look at the narrow-gauge line 's original terminus where it connected with the Cambrian Line . |
| 21 | It ran from Dingle to Seaforth Sands , where it connected with the L & y Railway . |
| 22 | The shelf was full , except for a small gap , where it looked as if a book had been taken out . |
| 23 | Cinderella mutated from rinsedella to rinse-a-leader and denser-liar , nitron became non-try , even trianon , U.V.I. kept changing into I-view-you , and synthetic fibre had long completed its various transitions from fetid cider to fist ethic neighbour and finally to thigh fetish sabre , where it looked like getting stuck for quite some time . |
| 24 | With a lunge , he grabbed the bag from between her fingers and flung it across the parquet , where it landed with a thump before skidding to rest beneath a radiator , then before she could react to such a flare of violence he was reaching out for her , dragging her into his embrace , his lips ravening hungrily over her own with a fever of desire that sent shock waves of fear and desire quivering through her . |
| 25 | After considering the nature of the exercise and the people involved , I decided against asking to use a tape-recorder and instead noted the events in longhand as they occurred and , where it seemed to me to be significant , noted what was said , verbatim . |
| 26 | Then , just when Rachel was feeling she wanted it to go on forever , this exciting masquerade between the two of them where it seemed as if the rest of the world did n't exist , she found herself beside Danny who began stuttering and waving his arms , obviously trying to tell her something . |
| 27 | Brainstorming on creative tasks has been a major activity in the advertising business where it began in the 1930s . |
| 28 | It was later sold to an ironstone quarry where it continued in use until 1963 when it was purchased for preservation . |
| 29 | In those countries where it continued in use regular blood testing was introduced . |
| 30 | Riverside conditions such as that , must have continued to exist for a very long time , for when the Romans arrived and established — about A.D.47 — a settlement astride the River Fleet where it ran into the north bank of the River Thames , the River Fleet was about two hundred yards wide at that junction . |