Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [noun] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Such cases may have been exceptional , but a great many servants seem to have passed their lives in households where their employers knew them by their functions , not their names . |
| 2 | Of the priests we know little , except where their transgressions brought them to episcopal notice . |
| 3 | Where their flesh touched she became one thing with him . |
| 4 | Her gold hair lay round her like a mantle , but where its strands crossed her face they stirred a little with her breathing , so that the tailor knew she was alive . |
| 5 | Where it licked the Wizards ' Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth colour , octarine ; where its outriders found their way into the vats and oil stores all along Merchant Street it progressed in a series of blazing fountains and explosions ; in the streets of the perfume blenders it burned with a sweetness ; where it touched bundles of rare and dry herbs in the storerooms of the drugmasters it made men go mad and talk to God . |
| 6 | When people asked Mrs Maugham where her daughter got her brains from , she would sniff and shrug her shoulders and say , as though disclaiming a vice or a disease , " Well , she certainly did n't get them from me , she must have got them from him , I suppose " — a remark which Clara took years to place , in all its ambiguity , for the truth was that Mrs Maugham had done well at school , she had shone and prospered , and the evidence of her distant triumphs still lay around the house in the form of inscribed Sunday school prizes . |
| 7 | Her lower lip stung and burned where her teeth pierced it . |
| 8 | She hurried back to the dressing-tent , where her mummy helped her into her Gnome outfit , around which was swathed a broad white band on which was printed in big letters the Brownie Guide Motto , LEND A HAND . |
| 9 | The Princess had become patron of the hospital , where her father made his miraculous recovery after his cerebral haemorrhage in 1978 , and in May 1988 she had agreed to attend a gala performance of The Magic Flute at the London Coliseum . |
| 10 | He saw her breasts spilling across her ribs and that chip missing from her tooth where her brother hit her with a stone . |
| 11 | By the end of the first scene Blanche has had her first ‘ flashback ’ to the Casino , where her husband killed himself . |
| 12 | Postwoman Val took Pat home , where her husband made him a Jamaican meal and Pat then went off to boogie to a steel band , like a rasta on ganja , exhibiting a sense of abandon never hinted at in Greendale . |
| 13 | All the communication was by telephone , and the finding child was instructed to look only where her partner told her to look and to make use of the telephone to discover the exact location of the object . |
| 14 | Cuts and weals appeared where her surrogate hurt itself in its destructive frenzy , but she smoothed them away with a flick of her mind . |
| 15 | In October of that year , while she was teaching in Columbia , South Carolina , she had realised that her work to that point expressed what her teachers or her friends expected it to ; and she determined , then , that she should allow it to express what she was feeling . |
| 16 | He stood just within the room , looking steadily at the Princess , and went headlong where his genius pointed him . |
| 17 | Instead of wrestling with the imponderables of land and trees and drainage and crops , he was back where his skills gave him a harsh certainty . |
| 18 | He had gone into his father 's firm of solicitors where his looks endeared him to wives in divorce cases , although his extreme reluctance to take decisions prevented them obtaining the best results . |
| 19 | Cortot 's 1933 B flat minor Sonata is also a far cry from one made in 1953 , where his powers failed him almost totally and is , indeed , of a dizzying aplomb and brio . |
| 20 | He thought that a priest should if possible go where his bishop sent him . |
| 21 | The colonel ran out into the road , blocked the animal 's path and guided it into his own yard , where his children calmed it . ’ |
| 22 | It was too dark and he was too afraid , or his conscience troubled him , or it was a combination of the two and so he hung back . |
| 23 | The tightly packed schiltrons might have been in some danger if the enemy 's Welsh archers had been used at once ; but Edward or his advisers thought they could settle things swiftly by an all-out cavalry charge . |
| 24 | If either Alain or his mother noticed they said nothing , but Claudine 's conversation was utterly empty . |
| 25 | And yet the night before the wedding his detachment or his melancholy reasserted itself when he told Stanley Baker that he was marrying her only ‘ because she expected it ’ . |
| 26 | Followers of Gandhi explicitly maintain that he was essentially a practical man with no concern for metaphysics or philosophical speculation , yet it is clear that whenever he attempted to explain what he meant by Truth he was involved in metaphysical speculation whether he or his followers realized it or not . |
| 27 | The tsar had been enthusiastic about change so long as he remained in the orbit of Elena Pavlovna , but in St Petersburg his convictions or his courage deserted him . |
| 28 | When the Philadelphia — now remember this name — when the Philadelphia put into Stornoway in Lewis , and gleaned young boys from the beach , and stowed them in the hold like trade-goods , what constable or what factor raised his arm or his stick to stop the slavers ? |
| 29 | Where your mum lived he just lived down the corner . |
| 30 | So , because we were in the A A he said you could have a ba , and we had to go to court , we had a summons for court , for careless driving , your dad and your dad said oh so A A said you could have barrister , or our insurers said we could have a barrister our insurers , not the one with we 're with now Norman , he was to do all the , said we could have this barrister and it was at Liverpool Crown Court and , it was n't till a , and I was alright we we just got a bit of a shock , you know , we could drive the home it was the wing and what not . |