Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I tended to stick with how things had been ; it was more comforting to think I 'd be able to pick up where I 'd left off . |
| 2 | That was the filthy coastal town smelling of fish oil where I 'd taken over the driving . |
| 3 | Perhaps one day I would go back to London , and take up my career where I had left off . |
| 4 | TO ARRIVE from London at Chesterfield station in Derbyshire — avoiding the gents ' toilet , where I have slipped up before — and then , after admiring the celebrated crooked spire , to find myself , within a few minutes , in the rugged landscape of the Peak , is an exhilarating experience . |
| 5 | ‘ Did n't you say she wants to take up where she 'd left off ? ’ |
| 6 | No matter how careful I was , Dawn soon had raw patches of skin where she 'd pulled out her feathers . |
| 7 | Donna had been rummaging beneath the bed upstairs , where she 'd pulled out both of the metal cases . |
| 8 | Where she had grown up ? |
| 9 | Just the very fact of being there , with her parents , in the place of her childhood , in the lovely , slightly shabby rambling old house where she had grown up , was sufficient to effect an almost miraculous cure . |
| 10 | Later , while Sybil dispensed orange juice in plastic beakers and handed out pink wafers biscuits , David joined Rachel on a moss-covered bank where she had sat down to rest . |
| 11 | It does n't take long and a few minutes trying things out could mean hours saved later and some useful space where you have used up some leftover yarns . |
| 12 | Eh she was away I think when , or she 'd gone out when called in upon here a fortnight ago . |
| 13 | Either that or she 's run out of schools to send him to . |
| 14 | Because older people often relate events to " When I was six " rather than to a given date , there is a need to build up a framework of background dates and information ( a time-line ) about the person interviewed and his family , and the places he or she has lived in . |
| 15 | We took up our time-killing almost where we 'd left off . |
| 16 | But where they 've gone on to have parish councils , you 've had the typical triangular structure and when I talk to people and listen to what they say , they , they do n't express it to me as such , but the felling you get over is that 's the sort of structure they 're used to , because the structure of the church is built in anyway , and the whole structure of the church |
| 17 | I 've been through my neighbourhood , where they 've torn down liquor stores and burnt down everything . |
| 18 | And next came the wonderful , handsome , shabby old house where they had grown up together . |
| 19 | They had dragged the body of the count from the room and continued where they had left off , their animal lust fuelled by the smell of death and the anguished screams of his sobbing daughter . |
| 20 | It was as if a couple of animals hounded from one burrow , nest or lair had im-mediately taken possession of another and started up just where they had left off . |
| 21 | She and Johnny could not simply pick up where they had left off . |
| 22 | ‘ Parts of her clothing were fused to her body where they had melted on . |
| 23 | There was one early proposal about archaeology which became a series called The Blood of the British , where they had come in with the idea of the series . |
| 24 | Similarly a plate of biscuits may not contain enough for ‘ one each ’ and children would not know until each had taken one or they had run out . |
| 25 | That took him back to the ‘ Nam , where he had joined up with the Summoner and later fought with the VC against the Ivans . |
| 26 | ‘ Boy ’ Mould had served in France with 1 Squadron in 1939/40 , where he had shot down the first German aircraft to be claimed by R.A.F. fighters over the Western Front ; he had over eight victories to his credit at this time . |
| 27 | Harbury tried to grab the apparent opportunity but Wickham neatly turned the conversation so that Shildon was able to go on where he had left off . |
| 28 | She was still tingling with pleasure and her cheeks burned when she realised that if he came back he could just take up where he had left off and she would not do a thing to stop him . |
| 29 | The 1991 world champion , impressive during the 5–3 quarter-final success over James Wattana on Thursday , picked up where he had left off in the opening frame . |
| 30 | Collins was the other striking contributor within Scotland 's side , tirelessly continuing at international level where he had left off for his club in Saturday 's Old Firm game and looking unaffected by the demands of a workload which had caused wholesale disruption to the national team elsewhere . |