Example sentences of "where he [verb] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cardiff looked at the blood on his hand , where he had been clutching his chest . |
| 2 | He shivered , remembering a dream where he had been riding north into the mountains with a woman who was not his wife . |
| 3 | He 's a man who erm is qualified in the field of computer sciences and if your Lordship will hear has worked throughout his life in the fields of computers , banking and er in March of nineteen eighty five he left employment with a company known as Data Logic Limited where he had been employed as a banking consultant and decided at that stage er on a change of career erm and he was looking principally to acquire a wine bar , restaurant , country house hotel , something of that nature and er you will hear that after some early disappointments in the earlier part of nineteen eighty five when deals that er were on the horizon for premises in Oxfordshire and then in Chichester erm in early September the plaintiffs er saw and liked the wine bar in and offered the price of , the asking price of seventy five thousand pounds with stock er which was accepted . |
| 4 | On Aug. 27 Dieter Gerhardt , a former commander of the Simonstown naval base , was released from prison where he had been serving a life sentence since 1983 after being convicted of acting as an agent for the Soviet Union [ see p. 32659 ] . |
| 5 | Then Corporal Auriega , a fat Spaniard who sweated all the time , arrived back from town where he had been drinking all evening with his friends . |
| 6 | He went back to the telephone , prompted by the recollection of an awkward scene where he had been made to feel unwelcome , a situation created by a man to whom he had taken a dislike . |
| 7 | ‘ We hear you 're a very clever man , shepherd , ’ added Joseph Poorgrass from behind the maltster 's bed , where he had been hiding . |
| 8 | On April 18 Ershad had been moved to Dhaka central prison from the Gulsham villa where he had been detained since his arrest in December 1990 . |
| 9 | We had met in South Africa ( where he had been born ) , had left for political reasons , and had decided to make our home in Edinburgh . |
| 10 | Patsy turned to them , unmarked except for where he had been stained by his brother 's blood . |
| 11 | Where he had been standing had been a turning point for cars once upon a time — when there were still cars in the world — but this had never been a place for modern things . |
| 12 | It was known where he had been buried . |
| 13 | All round his dingy housing-association flat in Stoke Newington , close to Amhurst Road , where he had been arrested at the beginning of the 1970s , were the signs of the new affluence . |
| 14 | Thomson 's experiences abroad , where he had been confronted with every type of poverty and degradation , had nurtured his already strong humanitarian streak . |
| 15 | Hickson alleged that while in the police station where he had been taken by P.C. Torney on a charge of having stolen 10&shilling from the pocket of his clothes in a cubicle at the Corporation Swimming Baths , the constable gave him a violent blow to the eye , and followed this up by two blows to the body … he was subsequently acquitted on this charge . |
| 16 | Her son , Shaun , died soon afterwards from his wounds on a garage forecourt , where he had been taken . |
| 17 | Writing to the Countess of Rutland in 1670 from his ‘ uncouth cell ’ in the Fleet prison , where he had been committed for debt , Crowe was scathing about the quality of the tapestries produced by William , Earl of Craven [ q.v. ] , and his associates who had taken over from him at Mortlake in 1667 . |
| 18 | Martin had a dim recollection of a visit to a big , dark house surrounded by evergreens and of a cold , high-ceilinged hall where he had been sat to wait . |
| 19 | Local press reports said that former President Traore had been hurriedly moved from the Kati barracks , where he had been held in detention . |
| 20 | I shared a compartment with a tanned young man , blond as only a Swede can be , in wire-rimmed glasses and a pony-tail , who was returning to Göteborg from Algeciras , where he had been visiting a girlfriend , as he put it . |
| 21 | He told how , after his condition deteriorated badly , his son had been taken into the intensive care unit where he had been put on a life support machine . |
| 22 | He arrived in Split by Sea King helicopter from aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal , stationed off the Croatian coast , where he had been welcomed by a 40-man Welsh male voice choir made up of crew members . |
| 23 | Other triangular trade centred on the East Indies , where he had been associated with the interloping of Sir William Courteen [ q.v. ] against the East India Company from the late 1630s . |
| 24 | The doctor turned away from the fire , where he had been warming his hands . |
| 25 | Liam , who was not with his father when he was killed on Thursday , said he was not sure where he had been going . |
| 26 | St Fachtna , in the olden days , left his precious prayer book in the grass , where he had been sitting reading it . |
| 27 | But he did not wait for a reply before throwing himself to one side as a sabre whistled down and buried itself deep in the brickwork of the window sill where he had been sitting . |
| 28 | At half past midnight , Springfield drew the council of war to a close by pushing back his chair and standing up behind the big desk , where he had been sitting flanked by Grant and Deputy Fenton . |
| 29 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
| 30 | In ‘ Downtown Beirut ’ , the boozery next door to the infamous ‘ Village Idiot ’ on 10th St. , ( where two Pogues ' albums continually rotate on the juke box ) , a dastardly plan was hatched to kidnap Strummer from out of the ‘ Seven B ’ bar , where he 'd been drinking all week , and substitute him onstage with Joe Hurley . |