Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 They had dinner at a superb restaurant , bustling with the rich and famous , where everyone covertly glanced at everyone else , slyly assessing outfits and hairdos .
2 This was the plan I laid down , and the first time I had occasion to try it in practice was the Summer before the last [ 1774 ] & I then did it in the case of a Lady and in the hottest weather : the next Body I tried these experiments upon was Jan y .
3 And this is why as I ca n't remember if we mentioned it now , maybe did , maybe or someone else did , that the ego carries out repression very often at the demand of the superego , so the superego has its standards , its barriers , its sense of conscience , its threat of guilt , and the ego , to satisfy those demands , to avoid guilt , carries out repression at its , at its command , or at its insistence .
4 He considered going to the House , or Whitehall , looking for Morton or someone else he-knew .
5 It 's not as if I could tell you much , anyway , seeing I never met her . ’
6 All that remained of the abbey was a very large and rather ugly abbey church and the old abbey gateway building , which was now part of St. Albans school , where I later went .
7 Nor were there any colourful bazaars , though there was a market where I later bought fruit , vegetables , eggs and three small glasses , the sort from which Algerians drink their coffee .
8 Shortly afterwards we returned to English prep schools , where I quickly had my French beaten out of me in French grammar classes , and where Lorne responded by continuing to be unable to talk or , rather , to speak in any known language , for he would hold forth volubly in a tongue uniquely his own .
9 There was also a stage where I deeply resented the foetus , although now I think I have killed this feeling .
10 One leads up an unfrequented glen occupied by wild goats and skirts the northern flank of Beinn Fhada to arrive at a rough bealach or col , where I once shivered for two hours waiting for the mist to lift off Sgurr nan Ceathreamhnan ahead , which it did not .
11 I 'll never forget the cellar of a little pub where I once stood for 10 agonizing minutes — ( it seemed like a century ) — with three of my friends , facing four of the meanest-looking characters I had ever met .
12 One day , after a particularly good school report , Father took me for a walk past a second-hand bookstore where I often browsed enviously .
13 Had we put in the stop where I originally proposed we would run the risk of pedestrians stumbling on the ‘ step ’ .
14 Obviously , where I actually went wrong on the
15 Next came a stomach-churning visit to the Snake Temple , where I actually held a snake very briefly , but drew the line at having it photographed around my neck !
16 The Grant Hall Hotel was next door to Zion United Church where I still spent many weekday evenings in boys ' work , and it was now handy to finish at the church and then cross over to the radio station for the late night shift .
17 ‘ There was a little bit from IRS where I still had connections .
18 I was writing the same songs with the same approach but I thought they were all shit so I never brought them to J or I never tried to play them .
19 And er my memories really go back to er the , probably the more pleasant things in the erm mission parties that we were invited to , the film shows in the Officers ' Mess , er going to a Glenn Miller dance erm which was held in the hangar up here erm , I do n't think we really , or I really appreciated them so much at the time as I do now .
20 And I 've , I was , I do n't know if it was Michael or somebody else told me that they would n't insure it .
21 A person may buy something in good faith , but may find out afterwards that the seller had no title to it , perhaps because the seller or somebody else stole it .
22 Rfereee Robbie Hart saw intent where nobody else did and Jan Molby smacked in the penalty .
23 Nor did he want to do anything prematurely which put a question mark against the potential of the United Nations or which unnecessarily provoked the USSR .
24 Liz has been appointed customer services manager with Skipton Building Society , where she previously held a management post in the commercial lending department .
25 His hair was thick and warm , and her fingers revelled in the feel of it , creeping around the back of his skull where she half-heartedly tugged to bring his head back so that she no longer ached for his kisses to continue .
26 In 1917–18 she served on the committee on post-war reconstruction , where she frequently clashed with Beatrice Webb .
27 She had been in the winning Nations Cup team in Drammen , Norway , where she also scored her first grand prix success , and , as a result of her achievements , was chosen to go with the British squad on the autumn circuit of North American shows , in Washington , New York and Toronto .
28 Her one fixation was fitness and she kept herself in peak physical condition by attending aerobic classes three times a week at the Rivereast Health Club on Second Avenue , where she also helped put housewives through their paces in the basic skills of karate .
29 Mia was driven to the Drumcondra clinic , where she instantly fell in love with rough , red-haired little Tip .
30 Gino 's chipper in Duke Street , near where she normally boarded her tram after work , charged one penny for a bag of crispy batter , and if you were lucky , there might be a nice piece of fish , or a stray lump of white pudding hiding among the golden , greasy flakes .
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