Example sentences of "place where it [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 It seems ironic that , in my struggle towards meaning , I was faced with its loss , hit with its loss , in the place where it hurt most .
2 I touched a hair away from his lower lip , kissed the place where it had been , then I left him .
3 As it was , an irrelevant image kept popping up in the comer of his eye , dragging his attention away : the image of an old man Iying slumped in the mud against a wall of concrete blocks , turned away , as though death were an act as shameful as intercourse or defecation , which he had sought to conceal as far as possible , even in the bleakly exposed place where it had come to him .
4 THE ROAD TO ELLING CHANGED CHARACTER dramatically at the place where it met the river and altered its course to follow that of the river .
5 the place where it occurred ;
6 He took his foot away and pushed the crate into place where it acted as a stop to prevent the door from sliding back open again .
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