Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | After 20 years at Data General Corp , where he was most recently director of Unix Development and acting director of the Database Engineering unit at the company 's Research Triangle Park , North Carolina base , John Pilat has jumped ship to become vice-president of Redwood Shores-based Oracle Corp 's Hewlett-Packard Products Division . |
| 32 | After 20 years at Data General Corp , where he was most recently director of Unix Development and acting director of the Database Engineering unit at the company 's Research Triangle Park , North Carolina base , John Pilat has jumped ship to become vice-president of Redwood Shres-based Oracle Corp 's Hewlett-Packard Products Division . |
| 33 | He joined P&O Ferrymasters in 1974 , transferring to P&O Roadtanks in 1979 , where he was most recently Financial Director . |
| 34 | Where he was intellectually confused was that he failed to see any close connection between the economic stance of his Government and its industrial problems . |
| 35 | It was preceded by ‘ The Interpretive Link : Abstract Surrealism into Abstract Expressionism 1938–1948 ’ , which he presented at the Newport Harbor Art Museum , where he was formerly chief curator , in 1986 . |
| 36 | Dommer had been following the exchange from his bunk , where he was obsessively stripping and reassembling his flamer . |
| 37 | It has been said that he gave too much of himself in his idealistic way , and that the ‘ political football ’ aspects of the CBC in eastern Canada , where he was finally transferred , caused a breakdown in health and his early retirement . |
| 38 | Don waved back and then gestured towards The Bell Inn where he was clearly heading . |
| 39 | He was deserted by Desiderius and retreated to St Bertrand de Comminges , where he was eventually deserted by his other leading followers ; finally he was tricked into handing himself over to Guntram 's generals and was killed . |
| 40 | The Portsmouth Court case was halted while he was taken to hospital where he was later said to be ‘ comfortable . ’ |
| 41 | Lara had played just where he left off in the World Cup , where he was comfortably the leading West Indian run-scorer with 333 at 47 . |
| 42 | He was at two preparatory schools , Aysgarth , where he learnt self-reliance , and Fonthill , where he was sadistically beaten by a master — till he hit back . |
| 43 | He served three years ' apprenticeship at Blackadder , Berwickshire , before entering the Edinburgh Botanic Garden , where he was soon placed in charge of the glasshouses . |
| 44 | This famous agriculturalist , influenced by the Duke of Bedford and dismissive of the Norfolk and Suffolk breeds that later combined to become the Red Poll , brought the small , thrifty Devons to his estates , where he was already known for experimenting with sheep such as the Southdown , the Norfolk Horn and Bakewell 's new Leicester . |
| 45 | Fleeing Momenta International Inc , where he was briefly chief executive officer , Apple Computer Inc 's erstwhile chief operations officer Delbert Yocam has gone to Tektronix Inc as president and chief operations officer . |
| 46 | He was educated at Eton and at Christ 's College , Cambridge ( MA , 1812 ) , where he was strongly influenced by his tutor , John Kaye [ q.v. ] , later the bishop of Lincoln . |
| 47 | He went to high school in Worthing , a pleasant town in the south-east of the country , where he was equally interested by science and arts . |
| 48 | But it was his two spells at Rangers , where he was affectionately nicknamed ‘ Bud ’ that the mercurial Johnson established a reputation as a daring winger with a short emotional fuse . |
| 49 | RODERICK BENNETT , NDO for Competence and Validation , has been seconded from Robert Gordon 's Institute of Technology where he was previously Head of School of Home Economics . |
| 50 | The 48-year-old returns to the staff of the Bolton-based North Region , where he was previously tournament controller from 1986-88 . |
| 51 | He had left his hometown of Kiel in northern Germany and covered the distance to Wissembourg on the Franco-German border in the space of ten days but he was still uncertain where he was ultimately headed . |
| 52 | He paid calls to La Vieille Cité , famed for its antiquities , where he was politely entertained and actually bought a little Renaissance bronze relief , but no one had heard of a cross coming on the market in recent years . |
| 53 | Spokesman Tony Ward said the selectors were left ‘ slightly unhappy ’ about Smith 's approach to yesterday 's British final , where he was soundly beaten by Grant . |
| 54 | There are parts of France , used to be anyway , where he was almost a legend . |
| 55 | He did n't know why he had come , hated himself for coming , but had by now tormented himself into a state of mind where he was deliberately looking for fresh spasms of anguish . |
| 56 | The play follows Chapman from his miserable youth in suburban Georgia , where he was systematically bullied and humiliated by his father . |
| 57 | Mr Saggers , of Alpha Street West , Seedley , Greater Manchester , was taken by ambulance to Salford 's Hope Hospital , where he was yesterday said to be ‘ comfortable ’ . |
| 58 | The largest explosion would take place at the base , where he was now working and that , too , would take the longest to plant . |
| 59 | Just where he was now and where he was heading was uncertain , this possibly having much to do with the non-arrival of Murray and the Steward , since both would be coming from the West Country and Balliol was thought to be marching southwards down the middle of the land . |
| 60 | There might well be a public library very near where he was now walking . |