Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [verb] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only in the Empress 's own apartments was there any sign of normality , where Eugénie had installed herself with her personal maid , her secretary and a handful of courtiers who had come from Saint Cloud to be with her . |
| 2 | He had approved cases such as McPherson , above , where dishonesty had converted what the accused did into an adverse inference with the owner 's rights . |
| 3 | The two women were in Kevin 's room , where Nellie had found her mother when she and Liam arrived in the cart after last Mass in Rosstrevor . |
| 4 | People stepped around her as she stood there , debating how much of the tale was true and where Wainfleet had got it . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've had a few jobs recently where husbands have given their wives surprise parties in the stables or somewhere . |
| 6 | Following interest expressed by several London galleries which , according to market sources , will have included Lefevre , Thomas Gibson and Marlborough Fine Art , where Freud had showed his work until 1972 , the senior British figure painter reached an agreement with New York dealer , Bill Acquavella , shortly before Christmas . |
| 7 | It was reported that Yazov , Kryuchkov , Baklanov and Tizyakov had flown to meet Gorbachev in the Crimea , where Gorbachev had had them arrested ( his 32-strong bodyguard having remained with him ) . |
| 8 | He ate in the canteen , spoke with some of the robots , wandered into the sitting room where Roirbak had left him the stack of films , rejected every one as boring , and decided to do a little exploring . |
| 9 | Only Anthea 's insistence had brought him to her room , where matters had taken their own turn . |
| 10 | Where suffering has occurred there must be " one or more identifiable incidents which can be described as having adversely affected the child " and these may result from acts of commission or omission ( para 6.39(i) ) . |
| 11 | Shortly after Frank 's release our belief that there was another hostage in the apartment was borne out when he was moved into the room next door where Frank had spent his last day . |
| 12 | Where Maggie had found him she did n't know , but once she had dragged the equipment inside the shelter she was very glad that he had . |
| 13 | The rugged mountains rose up straight from the river banks and were shaded in greens and browns with gashes of copper where erosion has taken its toll . |
| 14 | The two nurseries were damp discarded places , their ceilings blistered and flaking like old orange peel where rain had forced its way backwards from blocked gutters . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't , ’ said the boy licking his lip where Philip had hit him . |
| 16 | Hyacinth was lying where Martha had left her , curled in a foetal ball at the roadside , her eyes shut . |
| 17 | Where Bigwig had stopped there were signs of commotion . |
| 18 | There was a young boy there with his cows at the time , and he told Kalchu that he had watched the bull and it had walked slowly right round the circumference of the Kālādika , before lying down where Kalchu had found it . |
| 19 | It is ironical to contemplate what this economy measure could have meant to the University had the test-tube fusion work succeeded : of the billions of dollars in royalties , Southampton — where Pons had got his start in the field and where Fleischmann had spent over twenty years — would have had claim to none . |
| 20 | Where iron-cold has lessened its grip , far in the ranges |
| 21 | Now , he was a member of a church where Christ had liberated everyone , to be equal in His sight . |
| 22 | 12 Hartley 's essay was available to them in the exhibition brochure , where Stieglitz had reprinted it , and a second commentary about O'Keeffe by Rosenfeld had appeared in Vanity Fair the previous october . |
| 23 | He himself says in his 2nd Edition of the Perambulation of Kent , which he revised whilst living here , " At this place of the Bishop in Halling I am drawing on the last scene of my life , where God has given me Liberorum Ouadrigam , all the fruit that I ever had " . |
| 24 | Where God has given us sure and sufficient reasons for believing or the possibility of profound understanding in our believing , it is perverse to insist on having less than what he offers . |
| 25 | Her face was hurting badly where Duvall had hit her , and she could hardly believe that a dream could be so realistic . |
| 26 | But it was Arsenal , where Chapman had spent his longest period as manager , who held the limelight in the last years of peace . |
| 27 | Where Falstaff has spent his life deceiving others , here he deceives himself , and is thrust out of this medium so far above his resources , social or moral : ‘ I know thee not , old man , fall to thy prayers ’ . |
| 28 | Where badgers have shouldered their way under sheep-fencing , look for dried earth or polishing on the wire , and for the odd loose guard hair . |
| 29 | He picked up a gin and tonic from the same tray where Belinda had found hers , sipped it and made a face . |
| 30 | But I followed landmarks — the glade of birch saplings ; the drift of unmelted snow where Kāli had helped herself to a frozen drink : the huge pine tree whose trunk had been gouged to a tenth of its width for jharo . |