Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As usual , the ‘ antiques ’ in the kitchen were things Bob & I used as children . |
| 2 | Where I felt at home . |
| 3 | where I went to work down there and in a month they put , it was amongst a shop of about sixteen men and they all had separate orders and the men had got little lads working for them , you know . |
| 4 | I feel it is necessary to state my own interest : I am a retired mechanical engineer , at one time employed by a major international oil company where I specialised in research on fuel and lubricants for internal combustion engines . |
| 5 | An action was instituted — the only libel action where I acted for Harold Wilson which came to court — and I thought it wise to brief a member of the Opposition to act as counsel on his behalf . |
| 6 | Just as unc so a step " up " and a step " down " added together leave me where I started with zero displacement ) . |
| 7 | I always posted two sentries at night , more if the situation warranted it , and Omar or I checked at intervals to make sure they were awake . |
| 8 | It was all one to him whether he directed a battle or a raid from his headquarters and left the action to others , or himself went to work with lance or sword in the centre of the din ; they were merely complementary skills in the same comprehensive expertise . |
| 9 | It has become usual that there should be a generally drafted indemnity against all taxation liabilities arising from trading transactions prior to the last balance sheet date and which were not provided for in such accounts , or which arose from transactions outside the ordinary course of business since that date . |
| 10 | [ Christine Jardine spotted the following article in the magazine of Landsdowne Baptist Church , Bournemouth , where she went on holiday — it is used by permission ] |
| 11 | She called out ‘ Come in , of course , Nathan , ’ and the young man entered , holding a bunch of flowers which he presented to her where she lay in bed . |
| 12 | She was taken to another hospital , where she died on October 8 last year . |
| 13 | After her interview with J. D. O'Connor she had mitigated her whoppers to Matey and Dr Neil by moving on to the West End , where she walked along Oxford Street , entering Mr Gordon Selfridge 's store , gazing as raptly at its wonders as though she were truly the poor girl whom she pretended to be , the whole place seeming quite different now that she no longer had her papa 's bottomless purse at her command . |
| 14 | In 1882 she went to Girton College , Cambridge , where she studied with Henry Sidgwick , Alfred Marshall [ qq.v. ] , and Neville Keynes . |
| 15 | Anna went home via St Andrew 's Church , where she apologized to God and then thanked Him . |
| 16 | She went to hospital where she complained of pain in her right shoulder and in the right side of her chest . |
| 17 | On May 11 she was at Camp IV ( 7,900m ) on the north side of the mountain with her companion Carlos Carsolio , where she complained of sickness and did not eat well . |
| 18 | She was invited to a few parties , kissed good-night outside her door in South Kensington , taken out to lunch by a young man training to be a chartered accountant , and to an Italian film by another who was ‘ in the City ’ ; she was beginning to forget about Rupert when one evening towards the end of January she was later than usual leaving Toogood and Shelve , the publishers , where she worked as secretary to Mr Shelve . |
| 19 | - You start forgetting where you went on holiday this summer . |
| 20 | The sad fact is that many organisations would be unable to recognise a customer even if he or she fell in front of them . |
| 21 | She scrubbed out the houses of Dutch burghers when she had the strength , or she took in washing . |
| 22 | Or she led on men . |
| 23 | Each person referred , even if he or she remained at home , was allocated to either the community psychiatric nurse or the social worker ( as key worker ) ; their case was reviewed by the team every six weeks , and was never closed , except by death or removal from the area . |
| 24 | The clinic physicians were asked to refer any patient with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus who had experienced either severe hypoglycaemia without warning or who relied on others to detect their hypoglycaemia after transferring to human insulin . |
| 25 | During its six years of existence , Minton was one of a wide range of English and French artists who either visited it or , like Léger , lectured there , or who performed as guest teacher-critics . |
| 26 | Where we asked for marks out of ten , or thermometer ratings out of a hundred , we can use relative scores for different parties to construct measures of preference . |
| 27 | Her sons would often invite me to some remote corner where we hoped against hope that we would not disturb the siesta of the compound , though we were rarely successful . |
| 28 | In the afternoon we visited the Priory ruins where we prayed for unity and for the Decade of Evangelisation and finished off with a lusty rendition of Faith of our Fathers ! |
| 29 | I learned to love what Diana and Mary loved — the little old grey house , the wild open moors around it , and the lonely hills and valleys where we walked for hours . |
| 30 | They took us to the airport , where we flew to Peking via Hangchow . |