Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was always a bad correspondent , ’ berated Lear , ‘ but surely you are still more unconscientious , for when I do write , you answer me by a short scrawl — only one word of which out of every 2d can I decipher , & I have kept your last and only epistle to see if I ca n't sell it as an ancient hieroglyphic . ’ |
| 2 | Well where I 've put me bricks they 're |
| 3 | We are standing in that kitchen where I 've shared her meals and laughter , and she finishes drying the glass and places it carefully on the table . |
| 4 | We crashed … and I 've been ill , or I 've lost my memory or something . |
| 5 | So to get back to what we say er yeah I like to fix a date and if people phone up and say well look I 've I 've got something else or I 've changed my mind I would rather have that than to have lots of paper work on my desk that just says may be or may be not . |
| 6 | Loops of wiring and cable ran overhead , loosely tacked at intervals to the unpainted ceiling ; it was the kind of Who cares , no-one 'll see it protocol that had applied behind the scenes in the shopping mall where she 'd landed her first Saturday job . |
| 7 | Then she had made her way swiftly across the hotel lobby and out into the car park where she 'd left her little Mini . |
| 8 | Curtains hung pleasantly in the windows , and it seemed that if she turned her head away and back , then the table might reappear where she had sat , where she had served her soup to her mother , sometimes to her mother 's guests . |
| 9 | She felt raw — not physically , except where she had scoured her skin in the bath , but inside , in her soul , as if he had reached in and desecrated some sacred part of her . |
| 10 | It was Louisa as much as the doctor who supervised the carrying of Emilia into the Hall , holding her cold hand , murmuring small phrases of consolation and encouragement as the improvised litter was lifted carefully up the stairs and the invalid laid in the same bed where she had passed her first night at Easterness . |
| 11 | Belinda 's father had of necessity bought a rather characterless cream brick house in the outer suburb where his hardware shop was located , and Belinda had always wanted to live in one of these gracious old places , which were larger , more urban versions of the old farmhouse near Emerald where she had spent her childhood . |
| 12 | Gingerly she felt her mouth with her fingertips ; they came away with a splattering of blood where she had bitten her own lip . |
| 13 | She ran , fighting her way through the packed lanes and not slowing up until she reached Fever Alley , where she had parked her car . |
| 14 | Our congratulations to Margaret Thatcher on the signal honour of becoming a member of the Order of Merit , where she has joined her tutor , Dorothy Hodgkin . |
| 15 | Where where she 's got her flat . |
| 16 | Where you have bought your new property and exchanged contracts on the sale of your existing home but have n't completed . |
| 17 | Where you have bought your new home but have n't exchanged contracts on your existing property . |
| 18 | I start by checking the nursery , where we 've got our glasshouses and propagation facilities , and I 'm always walking around — I try to get round the whole garden at least once a week . |
| 19 | Although we were terrified that they would find where we had hidden our film equipment , it was easier for us than for our crewmates to express our anger , and we blustered the officials off the ship . |
| 20 | Where they 've got their van sited it is |
| 21 | In the drawing room , where they had drunk their pre-dinner sherry , Dalgliesh had a sense of a room which deliberately rejected the past , containing nothing which could violate the owner 's essential privacy ; no family history in photograph or portrait , no shabby heirlooms given room out of nostalgia , sentimentality or family piety , no antiques collected over the years . |
| 22 | On the day on which he had lost her he had sat for hours on the bed in the attic where she had lived during her time with him , and where they had shared their afternoon of love , and now , on the evening of the second day , he sat there again . |
| 23 | where he had struck his face in falling , |
| 24 | A thin red snake of blood trickled out of the corner of his mouth ; his chest was an open , bubbling mass of blood where he had received his death wound . |
| 25 | Orwell , unlike Waugh , was never a natural master of narrative , and his uncertain career in fiction had begun , after much trial and error , with Burmese Days ( 1934 ) , where he had exploited his youthful experiences in the Burma police . |
| 26 | Bernard was by now a junior lecturer in the same college where he had taken his degree . |
| 27 | Kit Everard had his men raise him a sleeping pavilion on the eastern bank across the creek from the saman tree where he had established his strategic headquarters . |
| 28 | He also supplied Sunday Life with a faxed copy of Simon 's winning entry where he has stated his date of birth as 30th March , 1974 — making him 19-years-old . |
| 29 | Though Joe 's literary knowledge is shaky , he has a reputation as a smart operator , and not only in the airplane business , where he has made his fortune . |
| 30 | Although not sufficient to restore the LDP 's overall majority in the upper chamber , it was a considerable improvement on the party 's disastrous performance in the 1989 election — where it had lost its majority — and was better than had been generally predicted prior to the beginning of the campaign . |