Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [be] [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The response was overwhelming and I was able to raise over £1,000 which was added to other monies raised by the branch of J Sainsbury 's plc where I am employed and we were able to hand over to Terry Scott a cheque for £10,000 . |
| 2 | ‘ I have never sought an honour in my life — I just did what I could for my home village where I was born and raised . |
| 3 | Eventually I went along to the British Association of Psychotherapists , where I was assessed and asked if I wanted to see a male or a female therapist . |
| 4 | I told him who I was and where I was staying and then forgot the whole incident . |
| 5 | ‘ I remember when I was in the middle of a presentation in the advertising agency where I was working and the phone went . |
| 6 | Since Dornie was now out of the question , I went on to the Kintail Lodge Hotel , where I was admitted and taken up to a single room which , mercifully , was furnished with an electric fire . |
| 7 | He is in his third year at sea when the misjudgment of Captain ‘ Battler ’ Cobb , reckless with drink and determined to win the grain race , runs the ship into a typhoon in the South Pacific , where she is dismasted and the Captain is seriously injured . |
| 8 | Or Munni , a slum dweller in Delhi , arrested with 11 others and kept overnight at a police station where she was stripped and beaten . |
| 9 | Posh Porky knew exactly when and where she was born and never stopped reminding us all that she was nearly a year younger than anyone else in the class . |
| 10 | Just to look at the cradle he had ready and waiting with its green cover there in the living room transported him , ‘ though it was only a hospital where she was lying and where I sat near her . ’ |
| 11 | She was led away into a crisp-looking cell where she was measured and weighed ; a careful , polite pair of hands found a vein in her strong arm and removed a vial of her blood . |
| 12 | The rain fell against his face as he watched her march out into the dusk , narrow shoulders pulled resolutely back as if she were someone who knew exactly where she was going and what she thought about things . |
| 13 | Where she was going and what happened that summer of 1983 are still a mystery . |
| 14 | For any long distance sailing you should inform someone where you are going and when you expect to return . |
| 15 | This yard was just a kind of higgledy-piggledy yard with a with a a wall along there where you 're standing and a few lean-tos . |
| 16 | for you 're watched where you 're going and you 're followed where you 're going . |
| 17 | It was like that game where you were blindfolded and spun round , and then you had to try and touch someone , Creed and the Skull , they were close one moment , then they were dancing out of reach , and nothing would sound like anything when he played it back , it would sound like interference , nonsense , silence , but he stayed with it , trips to the bathroom to sluice his nose and throat , more trips to replace the tapes , because he sensed they were leading up to something , there was something at the end of this rainbow of places , not gold but something . |
| 18 | Similarly , a child who creates dangerous mayhem in the kitchen can not do so if he or she is taught and learns never to enter the kitchen . |
| 19 | But the promise of the student 's higher education is realized when the student is able to raise him or herself out of that state of ‘ delight ’ ( to borrow again from Marjorie Reeves ) and to reflect on what he or she is doing and thinking . |
| 20 | José was a porter-cum-chauffeur at the delightful Stanford Park Hotel where we were staying and , like most of the staff , was working his way through college ( you could order your breakfast in Latin ) … ) |
| 21 | We were born to work the land , this land where we were born and raised our children ’ |
| 22 | In that story women are taken to a castle , where they are abused and tormented by men . |
| 23 | Where the mentally ill person is potentially violent , the social problem is quickly perceived ; where they are withdrawn and depressed , the individual agony may be overlooked . |
| 24 | The lucky ones are saved by the Pet Rescue Scheme and subsequently found homes where they are loved and looked after by more caring individuals or families . |
| 25 | I asked her what on earth happens to people who do n't live in a small town where they are known and therefore helped . |
| 26 | Whether you then sow the seeds in rows , or in patches , or in " stations " — groups spaced several cm ( in ) apart — is up to you ; in any case , some herbs do better sown in boxes or a seedbed , and then transplanted ; others are better sown where they are to grow and then thinned . |
| 27 | Seedlings should be sown where they are to grow and thinned twice to a final spacing of 20cm ( 8in ) ; good plants occupy a square foot of space . |
| 28 | The software determines how many crossroads there are , where they are located and how many options are offered by each of them . |
| 29 | I 'll go to look for where they were born and bred . |
| 30 | Plants , animals and rocks collected at home or abroad — perhaps from professional collectors , like A. R. Wallace — came to museums in capital cities , university towns or other centres , where they were named and classified . |