Example sentences of "where his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was originally held in Safi Prison , where he developed diabetes in 1988 , but was then transferred to Marrakech where his family lives , and so could visit him regularly and provide him with the food necessary for his diabetic diet . |
| 2 | Nevertheless he seemed willing enough to accompany the Finnish detective in the dangerous climb down over the tumbling rocks to where his cousin and his cousin 's pretty , peroxided fiancée lay . |
| 3 | You know where his father got his money ? |
| 4 | And his third year First Class results ( known at McGill as ‘ Great Distinction ’ ) in English demonstrate where his heart truly lay , as did his obtaining the coveted Chester Macnaughton Prize for ‘ Creative Writing ’ in 1955 ; as well as the Peterson Memorial Prize in literature . |
| 5 | peter Makin for instance , in general one of the very best such commentators , misleads when he glosses a passage from Canto 23 by remarking : ‘ Troy was the citadel of a culture , and when it fell … the priest-king Aeneas ( guided by the chthonic deities ) took the heritage to Italy , where his descendants planted Rome … |
| 6 | The first thing he did on arriving in Manchester at the weekend was pop over unannounced to Billy Boston 's pub in Wigan , where his likeness jostles for space with the owner 's on the tap room wall . |
| 7 | Most notably it swept southern Africa , though he did talk about a visit to Russia where his hosts had told him Labour would be good partners in disarmament . |
| 8 | He entered the profession after an apprenticeship at the Jesuit college he attended in Sheffield , where his father , a salesman in steel , had moved from London with his young son . |
| 9 | Mr Ozberk , who has been refused leave for a judicial review , is left with no right of appeal — unless he first returns to Turkey , where his wife and three children live . |
| 10 | The Soviet leader has had a more modest , though not dissimilar effect on East Germany , where his presence last weekend became a focus for calls for change of the type so steadfastly refused by his hosts . |
| 11 | ‘ . Eliot 's thoughts on civilization would be developed in America , where his longing for the scenes of his youth would also be satisfied and would enable him to return to London to minister , witch-doctor-like , to his civilization , to purify the dialect of his adopted tribe . |
| 12 | Astonishing how acute his hearing could be where his stomach was concerned . |
| 13 | Since 1977 Brown had been looking to buy a business in Scotland , where his family , roots and contacts are . |
| 14 | Much of the exercise was done in front of a mirror so that he could see for himself and correct the sag on the right side where his ribs had been removed . |
| 15 | A more controlled production context had been established by Balcon at Ealing , where his belief that filmmaking was essentially a team activity had been strengthened by the importation of documentary filmmakers who were accustomed to working in tight-knit groups . |
| 16 | Hamer , by contrast , was not only unable to flourish inside Ealing , where his projects were now considered too risqué , but unable to thrive outside . |
| 17 | Ultimately he hopes to return with his wife and infant son Jamie to Aberdeenshire where his father — who used to captain Cambridge at hockey — runs a small farm . |
| 18 | Soane was born in Goring on Thames , where his father was a bricklayer and he began his career as an errand-boy . |
| 19 | A dolphin caller would go into a dream where his spirit went out of his body and sought the dolphin folk in their home under the western horizon and invited them to a dance , with feasting , in the village . |
| 20 | He did not quite begin in rags ; he was the great-grandson of an Irish immigrant to New York , where his father worked in the cleaning department of the borough of Queens . |
| 21 | President Mengistu Haile Mariam , who misruled his country for 14 years , fled on May 21st to Zimbabwe , where his retreat was prepared . |
| 22 | It was written rapidly ( and compulsively ) in early 1914 , in an attic room in Selsfield House with some resemblance to his own study bedroom at 61 Shelgate Road where his writing began and where Helen later gave birth to his son . |
| 23 | The dental surgery where his Mum worked was on the outskirts of Thirkett . |
| 24 | He knew where his helmet was . |
| 25 | Philip went downstairs to the living-room where his Mum was vacuuming . |
| 26 | Anthony was now away at the university where his father had taught . |
| 27 | He sometimes fantasized about emigrating , starting again in Hollywood where his looks and talent might be better appreciated . |
| 28 | His spirits sank again at the prospect and although he went out to Ruislip where his former battalion now had its headquarters , and although he was received by Colonel Bumford , his spirits were at zero three days later when Charity spoke to him on the telephone . |
| 29 | A conducted tour of the house by the whole family , brought him at last to the top floor where his bedroom was proudly displayed , which , though huge and filled with awesome furniture of hideous elaboration , impressed him less than the meticulous care with which his soldier servant — batman was apparently a naughty word in the Guards — had unpacked his belongings and laid all essentials neatly in the right places . |
| 30 | Which is where his wife Elsie ‘ the head gardener ’ comes in . |