Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] was [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In alluding to Ronald Duncan and The Criterion , he was referring to a proposal by Duncan — with whom I had been in correspondence , though I did not meet him until after the war — that I should write for The Townsman ( a magazine which he edited from an ancient mill situated in a valley on the Devon/Cornish border , where I was later to live and write about ) , an article analysing the reasons why The Criterion , after flourishing for seventeen years , had so suddenly come to an end . |
| 2 | Dommer had been following the exchange from his bunk , where he was obsessively stripping and reassembling his flamer . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The play follows Chapman from his miserable youth in suburban Georgia , where he was systematically bullied and humiliated by his father . |
| 5 | The largest explosion would take place at the base , where he was now working and that , too , would take the longest to plant . |
| 6 | In September Lafayette took pride of place on the Stoddard Templeton stand at the Harrogate exhibition , the main retail carpet exhibition of the year , where it was officially launched and shown for the first time . |
| 7 | American news coverage of the 1960s riots first came under academic scrutiny in the aftermath of the Watts riot , where it was generally felt that media reporting had exacerbated the conflict . |
| 8 | The hearing was held at Horseferry Road Magistrates Court where it was eventually decided that there was a case to answer , and Bogdanov was committed for trial . |
| 9 | Glanville Jones ' ideas were based initially on studies of medieval Wales , where it was formerly assumed that a dispersed settlement pattern of pastoral farms had been the norm . |
| 10 | This was forgotten by the draftsman in British Railways Board v Elgar House Ltd ( 1969 ) 209 EG 1313 , where it was nevertheless held that for the purposes of the rent calculation parts of the demised property occupied by the headtenant should be deemed to be let at a rack rent . |
| 11 | However , the sea air deteriorated the steel work and it was offered on loan to the MRT where it was cosmetically restored and placed on display . |
| 12 | Clashes and scores of casualties continued elsewhere in south-east Turkey , where it was now estimated that about one-third of the Turkish army , or 150,000 troops , were deployed . |
| 13 | had something else that I was just doing and I thought Oh I should be at Ian 's for five o'clock . |
| 14 | I can not resist the admission that I was profoundly flattered when a telephone call from Harold Wilson at Downing Street invited me to mediate on the basis that , so far as they could see , I was for the moment the only tolerable candidate . |
| 15 | Looking at the event dispassionately , I realise that I was probably chosen because the film had to be ‘ in the can ’ ( a technical term we film people use for ‘ finished ’ ) by the end of February . |
| 16 | IT IS not every day , at my age , that I am asked to go into a dark cupboard with a man , so I was both flattered and cautious on doing so . |
| 17 | She never married ; but , by the time of her retirement from work , she was a great-aunt — although she was never called that — and she liked being one . |
| 18 | He acknowledged in his affidavit now filed in support of the application and repeated in his oral evidence taken on Friday , that ‘ Miss T. 's conscious level was somewhat clouded although she was fully orientated and appropriate in her verbal responses did not make any inappropriate comments and showed no signs of hallucination . |
| 19 | She thought she saw a hint of admiration in his eyes , but knew that she was utterly mistaken when , totally impersonally , he said , ‘ Shall we return to the drawing-room for coffee ? ’ |
| 20 | Due to family pressures her parents married , but they reminded Alison constantly that she was neither planned nor wanted . |
| 21 | Hence , it is likely that she was openly acknowledged as his consort , and was present when he was chosen as king in 1016 . |
| 22 | He had the impression that she was fully dressed but told himself that it must be a trick of the light . |
| 23 | Good food , plenty of sleep , and the knowledge that she was really wanted and loved gave her face a serenity it had never had before . |
| 24 | Hours later , an employee at the funeral home found faint signs that she was still breathing and had her rushed to the hospital in what the funeral home owner said could be nothing but ‘ a miracle ’ . |
| 25 | If she partly infers a higher average price level than she was originally expecting and partly infers a relative demand increase then the generally expected price level will be somewhere between P and P 2 , and hence there will be some increase in aggregate output above its natural level . |
| 26 | Rob Andrew went off with a bang on the nose which needed an X-ray , although it was later revealed that there was no fracture , while his replacement Stuart Barnes had 12 stitches in a head wound caused by a stray boot . |
| 27 | The final total was 606 , scored in only ten hours of excellent batsmanship , although it was widely felt that the England selectors had helped them along by omitting Foster and playing two spinners , Cook and Miller , on a pitch of low bounce . |
| 28 | Parliamentary and media responses to the Report varied greatly , although it was widely seen as making an important contribution to the debate about how to respond to the riots and prevent the outbreak of violence in the future . |
| 29 | The need for war , then , was fairly generally accepted , although it was widely recognized that it brought destruction and death . |
| 30 | Whether they had taken such action with the explicit authorisation of President Gorbachev remained unclear , although it was widely agreed that he had failed to respond adequately to the loss of life that had occurred . |