Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] was [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well where I was born in Needham Market |
| 2 | For some months I worked in the Information Department of the British Embassy , where I was engaged in propaganda , which included writing leaders for the Iraq Times . |
| 3 | Another officer was called , and I was carried away , with much clanking of keys , eventually to find myself in a small room , where I was dumped in a negligent way on a table . |
| 4 | He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks , through a council estate , finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued in the nick of time by a squad car full of policemen just as I was about to be filled in by the burly seaman . |
| 5 | She returned his smile , then darted a quick glance at her husband ; seeing he was engaged in conversation with the governor 's aide , she allowed a confiding note to enter her voice . |
| 6 | 680–1 into the territory of the southern Saxons where he enjoyed the patronage of King Aethelwealh and where he was engaged in converting the people to Christianity ( Vita Wilfridi , chs 41 , 42 : HE IV , 13 ) . |
| 7 | He next moved to work for Courage and then on to Kerridges , where he was employed in the accounts department . |
| 8 | Father Doyle became the famous Fr Willie Doyle of the trenches , where he was killed in 1917 . |
| 9 | Honoured by the Southern League , Harry was awarded a Benefit by the Palace in season 1914–15 , but whether this was ever taken up is uncertain because the designated game against Croydon Common could not be played on its original date , and by that time Harry was away in the services , where he was killed in action during the 1st World War . |
| 10 | He had already been to quite a number of shows where he competed in halter classes ; but this wag the first occasion where he was ridden in a saddle class . |
| 11 | He had worked along with Lutyens in the office of Sir Ernest George and set up a practice in Bourton on the Hill , Gloucestershire , where he was kept in constant commission by the smart hunting crowd . |
| 12 | Moz was eventually sold to a new home where he was kept in a paddock . |
| 13 | His first years in government were spent in the Whips ' Office , where he was schooled in the importance of ensuring that all interests were taken into account . |
| 14 | Hundreds of people followed the cortege of Mr Peacock , a prison officer , from his Joanmount Park home where he was shot in the back to the Holy Trinity Parish Church on the Oldpark Road , in north Belfast . |
| 15 | A pupil of Dent Grammar School , Sedgwick became one of the founders of the science of geology and had a long career as Professor of Geology at Cambridge University , where he was buried in 1873 at the age of ninety-eight . |
| 16 | A small party of his vassals took his body to nearby Antioch , where he was buried in the cathedral . |
| 17 | He was appointed surveyor of excise for the city of Dublin in 1809 and in the following year was transferred to county Donegal , where he was put in charge of operations against illicit distilling . |
| 18 | He was educated at Pembroke College , Cambridge , where he was admitted in 1632 . |
| 19 | On 19 October 1550 he was granted letters of denization and he is listed thereafter in various City parishes , the last being St Bride 's in the ward of Faringdon Without , where he was described in 1571 as ‘ Haunce , pictorer , a denizen , borne in Anwarpe , came into the realm about xxviii yeres past , Douch ’ . |
| 20 | Widely expected to have won last year 's Turner Prize , which was , in fact , awarded to Grenville Davey , Wilding is , nevertheless , enjoying a high profile , with a museum exhibition of ten sculptures from the last ten years having been organised by the Newlyn Art Gallery , where it was seen in March , and now transferred to IKON in Birmingham ( to 5 June ) . |
| 21 | Close investigation of the lode , where it was exposed in Thriddle Scar high above , suggested that it was hading , 18 inches for every fathom in depth , away from the advancing heading ! |
| 22 | He remembered how the fish lay gaping on its bed of newspaper , the flesh dark-red and subtly ribbed where it was split in half , and Yvonne with her sleeves rolled back and her wrists dipped in blood that smelt of tin . |
| 23 | However , in August 1815 Van Butchell 's son presented the embalmed body of his mother to the Royal College of Surgeons where it was placed in the Curio Room . |
| 24 | It 's just difficult to know why the final decision was changed and where it was made in the first place . |
| 25 | The tower was soon in the way of traffic and was taken down by Mowlem who brought it , minus the clock , to Swanage by sailing ship where it was re-erected in 1868 in the grounds of The Grove , later greatly extended as the Grosvenor Hotel , and now to be redeveloped as marine residences . |
| 26 | This alters the previous law , where it was held in effect that where a policeman was the only witness to what had occurred , no offence was committed . |
| 27 | Perhaps the spiral designs originated in the ‘ Bandkeramik ’ of the Danube basin and arrived in Crete by way of the Cyclades , where stone pyxides were made with spiral ornaments ; but Stylianos Alexiou thinks it more likely that the spiral came from the Middle East , where it was used in gold wire jewellery from an early date . |
| 28 | The word was considered to mean , where it was used in s.36 of the 1959 Act , an occupier within the meaning of the Lands Valuation ( Scotland ) Act 1854 ( see Purves , p.44 ) . |
| 29 | The exhibition left Hagen near Essen 8 November last , where it was installed in the Karl Ernst Osthausmuseum ( formerly the Folkwangmuseum ) decorated by van de Velde between 1900 and 1912 , and whose original interiors were partially reconstructed for the occasion to house over 1,000 paintings , designs , ceramics , silver , carpets and pieces of furniture . |
| 30 | It looks as though there lies behind D a chronicle which received additions in Christ Church Canterbury , and at least one of those additions , on Æthelnoth 's journey to Rome , was possibly present in a version which reached St Augustine 's , where it was copied in a slightly modified form into the predecessor of E. St Augustine 's may also have received the 1023 entry in D , but abbreviated it to the single sentence which E now contains . |