Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Either the seeds blew in — or someone planted them as a joke , ’ said a senior officer . |
| 2 | I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome . |
| 3 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 4 | As a former winner at Dornoch ( 1985 ) , where nobody took him beyond the 16th green , Garth has the right credentials for a marathon week 's work — sound legs and wind , a good nerve , great concentration , and all the shots for a course that will test the strong and mock the timid . |
| 5 | Tired and confused after the journey , I followed the servant into a large building , where she left me in a sitting-room . |
| 6 | Mildred slid him carefully into her pocket and raced up the stairs to her room , where she transferred him to a small box with holes in the lid which she had prepared specially for the journey . |
| 7 | Clare levered the coins off the counter , and carried her cup out into the small enclosure , where she balanced it on an unsteady iron table , her feet cushioned by a carpet of litter . |
| 8 | He seemed to have come to the deep , still centre of the sea : a place where you felt nothing , where you saw nothing except the coal-black atoms that danced before your face and knitted up the dark . |
| 9 | The careful and precise manner in which these financial arrangements were laid down suggests that many who served saw the war as essentially a business enterprise holding out the promise of substantial rewards for those who were fortunate or who distinguished themselves in the field . |
| 10 | But yesterday Labour candidate Alan Milburn said : ‘ It was n't Darlington Council who imposed the poll tax on the town or who kept it for a year longer than necessary . |
| 11 | ‘ They have admitted some of the questions on this paper are too difficult for the children and in Anthony 's school , where they took it as a class test , I believe the highest marks were about 40 or 42pc . ’ |
| 12 | It spread to the Chinese around 2 , years ago and then reached Japan where they cultivated it into the art form it is today . |
| 13 | Mantack then returned to Donna 's parents house , where they told him about the message . |
| 14 | Then they were both fearful for him and they took him into the cold scullery , where they hid him from the intruders . |
| 15 | Mr Woodcock , 47 , of Holgate , York , grabbed the weapon with one hand and it went off , blasting a wall with pellets , but he hung on , dragging the raider into the car park outside the restaurant , where he pinned him to the ground until armed police arrived . |
| 16 | ‘ He escorted me to his lodgings , where he treated me with every kindness , and dried my clothes whilst I managed a few hours sleep . ’ |
| 17 | He took Ellie by her forearm , and marched her down the landing and the painted uncarpeted stairs into the living room , where he sat her in the big chair in the corner . |
| 18 | The man half carried , half pulled her into a nearby pub , where he propped her in a Windsor chair and went to fetch water from the bar . |
| 19 | Six years on , the family moved to Ugthorpe Lodge on the Whitby moors , a hotel with caravan site and smallholding where Mr Chance also had stables and where he involved himself with the Goathland Pony Club . |
| 20 | IBM Corp started relaxing its strict accounting practices way back in 1984 , just as the company 's core mainframe business began to lose its impetus , although no-one realised it at the time . |
| 21 | and that was my Barclaycard number in case you want it although I ordered it through the thr phone I made out that so that I could read it off on the telephone I did n't even erm I did n't even assemble it I just looked and I saw it does n't chop I thought it would chop things but does n't , it only grates Looks as though it had been out before , you know , you look at this ! |
| 22 | Although I left him in no doubts about my opinion of his behaviour over the past few weeks , I was n't quite as brutal with him as I might have been . |
| 23 | I would never have dared speak so , but she was quite unselfconscious , although I suspected her of an intention to shock — to shock me as much as anyone . |
| 24 | Although I remained something of an outsider to the M.I.T. philosophy as it was at that time , I carried something of this arrogance back to England with me . |
| 25 | I was so surprised that I followed him without a word . |
| 26 | Even if I 'd told you that I heard it on the local news , I doubt you 'd have taken my word for it . |
| 27 | You wo n't accept that I knew nothing about the drugs , yet you want my word ? |
| 28 | You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’ |
| 30 | Not that I knew anything about the area of course . |