Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] was [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I told him who I was and where I was staying and then forgot the whole incident . |
| 4 | ‘ I remember when I was in the middle of a presentation in the advertising agency where I was working and the phone went . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Or Munni , a slum dweller in Delhi , arrested with 11 others and kept overnight at a police station where she was stripped and beaten . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Where she was going and what happened that summer of 1983 are still a mystery . |
| 12 | He told me about himself and where he was staying and about how people treated him . |
| 13 | In the following year he invaded Pictish territory , where he was defeated and killed at Nechtansmere , now Dunnichen Moss , near Forfar , on 20 May 685 . |
| 14 | He was taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital where he was treated and released . |
| 15 | After his conviction Stewart was sent to two secure prisons before Springhill … including Horfield in Bristol … where he was assessed and downgraded as being of a low risk . |
| 16 | He is a remarkable old man in any setting , but in the bushveld of southern Africa , where he was born and has lived for much of his life , he was in his element . |
| 17 | Sammy by now had wormed his way up to the third rung where he was floundering and panting breathlessly . |
| 18 | Sharpe angled away from the river , guiding the horse beside a field of rye which had grown as tall as a man.The field path led uphill , then , after picking a delicate path through a tangled copse where tree roots gave treacherous footing for the horse , Sharpe slid down an earthen bank on to a rutted road where he was shadowed and hidden from the Dragoons by the trees that arched overhead . |
| 19 | It went into the farmhouses where he lodged overnight and where he was known and befriended . |
| 20 | He did what any timorous man in a panic would do , ran away and hid himself within the community , where he was known and respected , and no one would ever guess he had attempted such a deed . ’ |
| 21 | On Tuesday nights Sidney Passmore must have sat where he was sitting and on Fridays , the undertaker . |
| 22 | Another Harvard dealer moved to Sheppards , a Stock Exchange member firm , where he was telephoned and abused by a Harvard Securities director . |
| 23 | However , her lack of confidence was shown in her reluctance to exhibit or even sign the work she sent to the London Group , where it was seen and admired by André Derain . |
| 24 | Manpower was then used to tow it from Morley to a warehouse in Chickenley ( old scores must have been forgotten ! ) , where it was stored and painted . |
| 25 | A full scale mock-up of the wheelhouse was built to make sure that all equipment could be fitted in exactly where it was required and comments were invited on the precise layout of instrumentation and equipment . |
| 26 | All I could do was write a letter , and by the time I 'd written a letter and it got where it was going and a reply got back , a week or two weeks could have gone by . |
| 27 | Or he was wounded and weak ; he had fallen ; Sam was standing over him . |
| 28 | This does not mean that nothing was bought and sold in the independent sector , still less that the agricultural producers in it were self-sufficient , though it is probable that a rather high proportion of peasant agriculture was consumed on the peasant holding , or within the narrow limits of a local system of exchange , if only because the food demands of the small cities in so many areas could be supplied from within a radius of little more than one or two dozen miles . |
| 29 | Lincoln had a ‘ dream start ’ , and although I was closing and closing I could n't make it . |
| 30 | Again on this very course a while back it was only three people in the group in the week that I was watching and the guy who was running the session had , had worked the equation wrongly on the rating or whatever and the other two , never seen him before in their lives were saying that 's wrong and he started getting really annoyed . |