Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well he did n't know where to go or what happened . |
| 2 | The second hand had stopped where it had met the pin inserted near the 55-second mark . |
| 3 | I learned , too , that English lesbian feminists expected you to become one of them … you either assimilated or you disintegrated . |
| 4 | While I was struggling to stop it , frost was formed where it struck my already cold hand . |
| 5 | Because of the way he was looking , his parted lips , his wondering eyes , she felt desire , a flicker of it , the first sign , the first time for months , a movement like a string being plucked where she thought her womb was . |
| 6 | things , I mean where we went |
| 7 | Oppression lay on me like a dead beast , not gaunt and stiff-legged like the animals which lay where they had dropped along the desert road , but soft and smothering like something from which the breath had only just gone . |
| 8 | She swore , but lay where she had fallen . |
| 9 | And I lay where I fell , fighting to hold back the tears which threatened to engulf me . |
| 10 | But in July Mary of Guise was able to fight back more successfully , and at the end of the month the two sides made another truce , by which Edinburgh was to be free to choose its religion , and Catholic observance was not to be reinstated where it had been suppressed . |
| 11 | My flower — the one that I remember best out of many — was gathered where I said it had been . |
| 12 | They did n't allow me to sit where I chose . |
| 13 | His thick black curly hair seemed to grow around his head like a crown , leaving his forehead exposed where it had receded . |
| 14 | Apart from the light from Craig 's torch , still propped where he had left it against the main power conduits , the chamber was dark and empty . |
| 15 | And some of the great families had n't been too happy about nomes being able to go where they pleased , without having to ask permission . |
| 16 | And that woman where we got Angela 's dress from , if er Karen 's peach dress does fit her , well at least Karen 's there to be able to go where we got Angela 's dress from . |
| 17 | Mr McCloy gave me a free hand to go where I chose , bar the two big outhouses . |
| 18 | He did no wilful damage but regarded himself as entitled to go where he wished for the purpose in his mind without regard to the rights of ownership and the alleged presence of man traps and spring guns . |
| 19 | Tavett was free to go where he liked and there were no grounds to hamper him . |
| 20 | The passport office in Liverpool issued me with a new passport , and , though I had made dozens of requests to the army for a vehicle , BBC Radio Manchester succeeded where I had failed . |
| 21 | cos if you were stopped or you had an accident |
| 22 | Where she met where she met him then ? |
| 23 | a similar point arose where it proposed to serve the writ and an Anton Piller order out of the jurisdiction on a Belgian company . |
| 24 | ( 5 ) A speculative question the pupil is asked to consider how the situation might have developed or what led up to it , e.g. " What do you think happened next ? " |
| 25 | when he 'd hidden her and covered her over , he set out to find where she 'd lived . |
| 26 | Nigel had reasoned that , as most washing originated where one divested oneself of one 's dirty clothes and bed linen , i.e. the top floor , it was poor time-and-motion study to have the cleaning apparatus on the ground floor . |
| 27 | A chilly breeze was moving and several of them trembled where they sat . |
| 28 | Thus , on Jan. 30 parliament co-opted 120 new members to replace CPCz members who had resigned or who had been recalled by their constituencies . |
| 29 | Ashore we were greeted pleasantly by the Russians and invited to wander where we wished . |
| 30 | The MG was a seasoned trooper , steadily eating up the distance , and it left her thoughts free to wander where they chose . |