Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Marshall lives in central London , where he devotes his time to writing short stories for magazines and drama for radio . |
| 2 | After a brief stay in Launceston on the upper reaches of the Tamar , where he replenished his stock of shot , powder , and caps , Gould wrote to his wife in Hobart : |
| 3 | But Jones decided to turn down his old Wimbledon club , where he made his name as one of the Crazy Gang . |
| 4 | After playing only a handful of games for Celtic , Docherty moved south to Preston North End , where he made his debut on Christmas Day 1949 , eventually displacing his mentor Bill Shankly and rising through the ranks to captain the Preston side . |
| 5 | To choose one of many examples , I can point to the case of Nottingham-born Herol Graham , whose parents came from Jamaica and gave him no support in his sporting endeavours , at first in sprinting and then in boxing where he made his mark as a light-middleweight . |
| 6 | He was educated at Eton and St Mary Hall , Oxford , where he took his BA in 1819 . |
| 7 | After private tutoring he went to Corpus Christi College , Oxford , where he took his BA in 1807 . |
| 8 | Henry started his education at a boarding-school in Birkenhead but in the spring of 1887 the family moved to the Queen 's Park district of west London , where he continued his education at Beethoven Street School in Kilburn Lane until 1890 , when he left to work in the jewellery workshops of William Whiteley [ q.v. ] of Bayswater . |
| 9 | Ill health later led him to spend some time in the Bristol area , where he cemented his friendship with William Wordsworth [ q.v. ] , whom he met in 1795 at a gathering of radical friends ( who included George Dyer , William Frend , William Godwin , and John Horne Tooke , qq.v . ) . |
| 10 | He was educated at Jesus College , Cambridge , where he received his BA in 1636–7 and his MA in 1640 . |
| 11 | His mother trekked North to the St Mary 's Anglican Mission station , where he received his education before going on to study at the Rorke 's Drift Art and Craft Centre in Natal . |
| 12 | Two versions of the tune appear in the collections of Captain Francis O'Neill of the Chicago Police , a contemporary of Honeyman , and Alastair Hardie includes it in his Caledonian Companion , where he acknowledges its publication in Kohler 's Violin Repository of 1885 . |
| 13 | Having divined the source of his miseries , the bewitched victim reports to the chief 's court , where he submits his accusation for verification by the chief 's own oracle . |
| 14 | In 1906 he made over Cliveden to his newly married elder son , and bought Hever Castle in Kent , which he reconstructed and where he housed his collection of pictures and artefacts . |
| 15 | Valerie Moore is unable to understand how her eight-year-old son Lee strayed more than a mile from her home in Princes Road , Ellesmere Port , where he met his death on his brother 's bike . |
| 16 | According to Langford , ‘ The traveller who visits [ Birmingham ] once in six months supposes himself well acquainted with her , but he may chance to find a street of houses in the autumn , where he saw his horse at grass in the spring . ’ |
| 17 | David Gower survives a caught-behind appeal off Mushtaq , provoking substitute Rashid Latif ( centre , in cap ) into a dash down the length of the pitch , where he hurled his cap to the ground . |
| 18 | Espey had been at United Distillers since 1986 , most recently as chairman of its North American operation , where he oversaw its acquisition of Glenmore Distilleries ( MW July 19 , 1991 ) and the division 's subsequent reorganisation . |
| 19 | He was educated at Trinity College , Cambridge , where he obtained his BA in 1833 . |
| 20 | He was educated at Bowmore school and Glasgow University where he obtained his M.A. in 1863 and was made a Doctor of Divinity in 1891 . |
| 21 | Some of his Camberwell friends were conscripted , Eric Verrico into the RAF , where he altered his name to Verrier to avoid anti-Italian feeling . |
| 22 | But Keith Miller , prosecuting , said Ninham took the boys into a Northern Echo depot where he pushed his hand down the backs of their trousers . |
| 23 | Studied under Lawrence Gowing and Victor Pasmore at Newcastle University , where he gained his BA in Fine Art from 1963 to 1989 , since when he has devoted himself to his painting . |
| 24 | Rumour had it that although he made his home in an unoccupied derelict house near the CPR docks , he was really very wealthy , having buried his family fortune long ago and quite forgotten where he had left it . |
| 25 | The employee need not work out the period of notice if he prefers not to , although he loses his right to wages in lieu of notice . |
| 26 | Although he took his diploma from the Krakow Conservatoire in violin , he studied composition there as well and a number of works , including a symphony ( 1957 ) and a concerto for orchestra ( 1976 ) to his credit . |
| 27 | He died in Oxford 22 October 1729 , as a result of gangrene following a fall from his horse while visiting his Hertfordshire parish , although he blamed his illness on ‘ drinking a pretty deal of bad small beer ’ . |
| 28 | Many of his friends were Covenanters but , although he supported their cause in principal and loathed the barbarous conduct of the dreaded Dragoons , he took no active part in the rebellion . |
| 29 | Even Colin MacInnes remains convinced that music-hall was ‘ an act of working-class self assertion ’ although he concludes his analysis of the music-hall songs with a phrase that should set film historians thinking , for he sees them as a ‘ sort of bastard folk song of an industrial-commercial-imperial age ’ . |
| 30 | Thomson was left undisturbed at the Restoration , although he lost his place as a Trinity brother . |