Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see the sign saying Welcome to Inverness just as I remember where I left the car and where I left from this morning and just before I turn and stamp to the nearest desk and demand in my highest dudgeon to be taken to Edinburgh on a charted Lear if necessary or limoed immediately to the highest-starred hotel within a reasonable radius for a free overnight dinner , bed and breakfast and unlimited bar tab . |
| 2 | But where I thought of this part of the game as the worst , Ken positively savoured it . |
| 3 | Rosa cast an eye at her mother 's frowning back where she attended to some task and tried to exchange a glance of impatience with Tommaso . |
| 4 | He waved to her from the gate , where she stood like any housewife seeing off her man . |
| 5 | But , that where we went to that pub that time with Geoff , that 's the first time I 've been up there . |
| 6 | They frequently inhabited the same Soho haunt but at Muriel 's , where they vied with each other in buying bottles of champagne , they often occupied different ends of the room . |
| 7 | After all the hassle they should know exactly where they stood with each other , Merrill thought as she dressed on Saturday evening . |
| 8 | Resuming at the short fourth hole , he promptly took a double bogey five , leaving a bunker shot in the sand , and then following it with a six at the fifth , where he hooked into some bushes and had to go back to the tee . |
| 9 | Sunderland Council has been praised by the district auditor in his annual appraisal where he pointed to several areas where the council had given value for money . |
| 10 | From Westminster Hotel School , Michael Hirst joined Forte in 1964 as an executive trainee , where he worked in several departments of the organisation . |
| 11 | The Royal Commission on Capital Punishment which reported in 1953 ( Cmnd. 5932 ) examined the experience of countries throughout the world where the death penalty has been abolished , restored , abolished again or where it existed in some parts and not in others . |
| 12 | Mind you , my elder daughter takes a lot more responsibility for herself than I did at that age . ’ |
| 13 | I was totally petrified — so I went with another girl , my first feminist incidentally . ’ |
| 14 | His reply was he 'd do the same — so I knew from that moment onwards he was the man for me . ’ |
| 15 | Feeling closer to him than she had at any time since her mother 's death , Rory hid her face against his shoulder . |
| 16 | Janine nodded and left the flat , feeling lighter hearted than she had for many days . |
| 17 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 18 | All the family thought that in spite of Maureen 's arduous lifestyle , she looked better and happier than she had for several years . |
| 19 | Never in her life had she felt less like eating than she did at this moment . |
| 20 | Right so you looked at this H C L plus C A C O three quite messy . |
| 21 | Once you learnt in this way it was easily recalled . |
| 22 | Surely no civil servant had more unique or peaceful surroundings in which to work than we did on this day . |
| 23 | We 'll not be building any more than we intended for this year — well , a house or two more , maybe , but nothing beyond . |
| 24 | We were all starvin' , Chief , so we went to this canteen . |
| 25 | George nodded and motioned her to silence again ; although they waited for another quarter of an hour , it was a vain vigil ! |
| 26 | Subjective assessments of pain and difficulty during exercise were significantly less for patients in the experimental group on both test dates than for the control group , although they improved for both groups . |
| 27 | The group did not have another discussion about wages for housework as such , although they did for some months follow Ruth 's prepared reading list — an introductory series of Marxist texts , and the issue of wages for housework emerged again through that , in a theoretical discussion . |
| 28 | However , the concentrations of zinc and copper , although they correlated with each other , did not correlate with the levels of protons . |
| 29 | Where once they flew in such flocks that they threw shadows over the earth , they now survive in a few straggling colonies . |
| 30 | Figure 5.3 shows support for the Equal Rights Amendment ( ERA ) to the United States Constitution , proposed in 1972 but never ratified because although it passed through both houses of Congress it did not receive the positive vote of three-quarters of the State Legislatures within seven years , as required by the Constitution . |