Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Seeing I played two rounds of golf yesterday … ’ |
| 32 | And a call came over the radio that there was a problem with one of the pumps downstairs , so seeing I had nothing better to do at that time I went downstairs to give them a hand . |
| 33 | The dancer , on her way back to the United States , took Dana in her VW to Lisbon , Porto and Bilbao , where I met them , then we drove all the way to Paris . |
| 34 | On my first day in Alaska I made a bee-line for the local radio station KFAR where I met the manager , Augie Hiebert and we spent the rest of the day talking shop . |
| 35 | Like an overgrown Bisto kid I sniffed and aaahed my way to the source of the oaky-smokey smell , where I met a man whom I am very pleased to know . |
| 36 | I 'd left school in 1976 , I was unemployed and it all happened through a drama group at the Royal Court Theatre where I met people who were out . |
| 37 | After the reception in the Great Hall , where I met the Hon. |
| 38 | A couple of blocks away is John Smiths , where I met my old friend Robert Clow , in company with his number two , Willie Anderson , current treasurer of the BA . |
| 39 | It 's there where I met him . |
| 40 | The seeds of further sexual confusion were sown by the custom , in the cinemas of Wellington , Shropshire , where I lived , of spraying the audience with perfumed deodorant during the intervals . |
| 41 | Where I lived and that ? |
| 42 | They knew I lived somewhere in Chicago , so they called Mayor Daley , who found out exactly where I lived , and then they located Tim and hand-delivered first-class round-trip tickets and baggage vouchers from Chicago to Bangkok . |
| 43 | I lived in fear of him finding out where I lived . |
| 44 | We sat on our stools and I smiled at him , thinking he was going to ask me about my dress or where I lived or something , and he said , ‘ Who 's your favourite philosopher ? ’ |
| 45 | Mallards , coots and moorhens could often be seen and heard waddling about the housing estate where I lived or sometimes even boldly marching up the high street . |
| 46 | My routine , where I lived , the fact that Julia was taking this secretarial course . ’ |
| 47 | There was a small flat above the laboratory , where I lived , and sometimes I stayed inside the building for a week and did not go out . |
| 48 | On the minus side , they knew what I looked like , where I lived and what I drove . |
| 49 | We stayed in that house till I were eight year old and then we were went on to where I lived the rest of my time and that would have been from nineteen twenty to oh a couple of year ago . |
| 50 | I think dad , I 'm not sure whether he , no he was n't born in Stamford he was born in King 's Street where I lived |
| 51 | On another day we went to St. Anne 's where I played on the sands that were not a patch on those of the South Coast . |
| 52 | What I took to be failures were not my failures but simply where I failed to fit in with what others expected of me . |
| 53 | They invited me to punk parties as noisy as tractor factories , where I swigged flat cans of beer , already shaken with a twist of cigarette butt . |
| 54 | But the square of sky where I hung , shouting , waving , |
| 55 | We cascaded down the stairs as the dog decided he could take going downstairs in his stride — and seethed across the station into the sunshine of the great outdoors ; where I observed two large policemen surrounding my estate car , notebooks in hand — and under the obvious impression that they were abut to make an easy collar . |
| 56 | On one of them , where I farmed for 45 years , while my employees who belonged there spoke Gaelic , I also from time to time employed Scots speakers from Alyth , splendid fellows , in whose speech I could recognise classical Scots words which occur in the poetry of the Scottish Chaucerians . |
| 57 | I asked about discipline , wondering how it compared with that at the central Scotland school where I taught . |
| 58 | ‘ I 've only got to the end of the year but my family will be carrying on where I left off . |
| 59 | For example in B , I had tried several times without success to contact a third-year female physics student who , it seemed , never looked in her departmental pigeonhole where I left the notes . |
| 60 | There it is sitting out on the garden path where I left it . |