Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the next day , afore I 'd gotten fettled up — for indeed , miss , I 'd no heart to sweeping an' fettling , an' washing pots ; so I sat me down i' th' muck — who should come in but Maister Weston ! |
| 2 | If it was a ramshackle building where no-one wanted to live , fair enough , but that is not the case . ’ |
| 3 | The night porter used a passkey for those rooms that were empty or where no-one answered . |
| 4 | It was easy to sink into a sort of limbo , where nothing seemed any longer to be as important as it had been . |
| 5 | She was longing to go somewhere away from all this , among people who did n't know her , quiet and dark where nothing happened . |
| 6 | I know of one company where everyone became so highly motivated that most of them left , because they now found frustrating a pace which they had found acceptable before . |
| 7 | He swung it to the extra-cover boundary and Sabina Park , where everyone had been generous in Test defeat , could not have celebrated more had the World Cup been won . |
| 8 | They brought their families , some of them intermarried with time-expired soldiers who chose to settle here , too , and it grew into a real , life-and-death town , where everyone had a stake sunk so deep that when the legions started to leave , the locals still could n't get out . |
| 9 | What would really terrify him would be to take to an experienced orchestra a Rachmaninov symphony , or well-known works , where everyone had expectations of a fresh miracle . |
| 10 | Ever since she gave up full-time employment where everyone touched their cap to her , she 's found the loss of identity difficult to cope with . |
| 11 | The old pattern of family life , where everyone existed and acted under the family umbrella , is fast disappearing . |
| 12 | At the ‘ 19th ’ all prizes were presented by Captain , Danny Sproull where everyone agreed that it had been an enjoyable outing . |
| 13 | Oh to get away so I could exhaust myself with intense experiences , where everyone spoke of intense subjects and never said " pass the bread and butter . " |
| 14 | We all loaded into the Volvo and went down to Shellerton Manor where everyone trooped in to see Harry . |
| 15 | Seeing everyone engaged in their own private confessionals , she sipped her drink with renewed confidence . |
| 16 | Seeing I played two rounds of golf yesterday … ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | After the reception in the Great Hall , where I met the Hon. |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It 's there where I met him . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Where I lived and that ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I lived in fear of him finding out where I lived . |
| 29 | 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 ? ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |