Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh to get away so I could exhaust myself with intense experiences , where everyone spoke of intense subjects and never said " pass the bread and butter . " |
| 2 | Seeing everyone engaged in their own private confessionals , she sipped her drink with renewed confidence . |
| 3 | As usual , the ‘ antiques ’ in the kitchen were things Bob & I used as children . |
| 4 | And then they want someone else 's help or whatever else and er I can see that they 're concerned that you know they have a concern or want something from me then and I pass on I some action to take place you know for you know I 've on to somebody or someone said to him , I always give my name . |
| 5 | I think it 's a local gardener , or someone went to the filled up all the turf and took it all out . |
| 6 | ( i ) The official receiver ( or someone nominated in writing by him ) is the chairman of the first meeting . |
| 7 | On another day we went to St. Anne 's where I played on the sands that were not a patch on those of the South Coast . |
| 8 | On one of them , where I farmed for 45 years , while my employees who belonged there spoke Gaelic , I also from time to time employed Scots speakers from Alyth , splendid fellows , in whose speech I could recognise classical Scots words which occur in the poetry of the Scottish Chaucerians . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ When I asked you earlier where I fitted into the assignment you said that I 'd find out soon enough . |
| 11 | where I squinted through the gap in the serving hatch |
| 12 | Where I felt at home . |
| 13 | My first real contact with the military was when I went on a familiarisation course to the Parachute Regiment depot at Aldershot when I was fourteen , and spent two days living in the mess , where I looked around the regiment , met serving officers and had some basic interviews with retired Colonels , who were in charge of selecting the future leaders of the toughest regiment in the Army outside of the Special Air Service . |
| 14 | This was , at least , an improvement on an earlier pattern , where I went into the end-game with a lead of about 30 — and then lost on the black . |
| 15 | where I went to work down there and in a month they put , it was amongst a shop of about sixteen men and they all had separate orders and the men had got little lads working for them , you know . |
| 16 | ‘ Back where I came from . |
| 17 | ‘ I wo n't get a fellow , I 'm from nowhere , a decent fellow would n't be able to talk about me and where I came from . |
| 18 | Now I go back to my home where I came from . |
| 19 | Where I came from no one spoke of such things . |
| 20 | In my own section , towards the middle of the cloakroom , I saw to my horror two lines of girls staring at me and giggling , and as I came near , one of them asked in a sarcastic voice where I came from . |
| 21 | Where I came from . ’ |
| 22 | But where I thought of this part of the game as the worst , Ken positively savoured it . |
| 23 | So I took myself off to my billet , feeling bloody frustrated and edgy , might I add , and thence to bed , where I thought about it . |
| 24 | I feel it is necessary to state my own interest : I am a retired mechanical engineer , at one time employed by a major international oil company where I specialised in research on fuel and lubricants for internal combustion engines . |
| 25 | My father was not a rich man , but he was able to send me to Cambridge University , where I studied for three years . |
| 26 | To come somewhere like this would have been better , somewhere where I had to be in at a certain time , where I could n't have certain people come in . |
| 27 | Anyway , back to Le Coq d'Or where I lay on the truckle bed and drifted off to sleep . |
| 28 | There were points of Government policy where I disagreed with the official line . |
| 29 | I pulled the door shut and almost ran to the front door and into Langdon Crescent garden , where I stood for five minutes breathing in the fresh air . |
| 30 | Where I stood like |