Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later that day , and with a good half-inch of our respective hair on the floor of a Soho salon , we hit the black suede pump shop , where I was noiselessly relieved of a week 's rehearsal pay on a pair of boots the same as the ones which fell apart in three months last time and a pair of the suede pumps ( ‘ EVERYBODY 'S wearing them ! ’ ) which , one week later , were flat and circular like dinghies . |
| 2 | In alluding to Ronald Duncan and The Criterion , he was referring to a proposal by Duncan — with whom I had been in correspondence , though I did not meet him until after the war — that I should write for The Townsman ( a magazine which he edited from an ancient mill situated in a valley on the Devon/Cornish border , where I was later to live and write about ) , an article analysing the reasons why The Criterion , after flourishing for seventeen years , had so suddenly come to an end . |
| 3 | ‘ This got me into the very comfortable American hospital , where I was well pampered . |
| 4 | Watching at the scene was one of the unfortunate residents , Mr. Worby , manager of the Co-operative Society 's Outfitting Department where I was often taken to buy clothes . |
| 5 | Yet he , the archer , might have gone back there to check again after all and if he had he would know I was alive , but he would never find me where I was now , deep in impenetrable shadow along a path he could n't follow in the dark . |
| 6 | Because we knew that the headmaster of the Scuola Medie Inferiori , where I was now in my last year , was not in a position to punish us if we did not appear for lessons on demonstration days , many of us took part only for a short time and then went home . |
| 7 | We had climbed together a couple of weeks before at Goat Crag , where I was once again reminded how suited Fanshawe is to upward progress ; a powerful frame and seemingly hydraulic legs brought him to the crag aeons before I arrived . |
| 8 | It was hard for me to leave Spain , where I was very well known and settle in Palm Springs , California , ’ says Jose Higueras , a former Davis Cup player for Spain from 1974 to 1980 . |
| 9 | ‘ Or would I start screaming that I 'd left a soufflé in the oven , or forgotten to get the coat back from the cleaners , or I was too young to die … ’ |
| 10 | Either Melanie pushed some part of her anatomy against my leg or I was too close to the campfire . |
| 11 | It was a Militant councillor who found her alternative accommodation where she was later to give birth to her daughter , Claire . |
| 12 | Susan , who had been working a local boarding kennel where she was particularly involved with Bernese Mountain and German Shepherd dogs , has two Great Danes of her own called Buddy and Holly ! |
| 13 | It flattered her , where she was most susceptible of flattery , to think how , wound about in their hearts , however long they lived she would be woven — ’ See ? |
| 14 | So Anna was taken to her new home , where she was well cared for , and her new owner tried patiently to handle and groom her . |
| 15 | Her own health by that time was not of the best and she latterly resided in Dalnair House , Croftamie , where she was well cared for . |
| 16 | Ruth felt her stomach heave , and rushed to the side of the ship , where she was violently sick over the rail . |
| 17 | Shortly after moving into her apartment she found a job where she was truly in her element . |
| 18 | She was asked to step next door where she was cursorily examined by a female Indian doctor who offered no opinion . |
| 19 | He vaguely remembered her name from the literary magazines , where she was quite well thought of . |
| 20 | Ex-St Martin 's ( where she was often the only student in the life room ) , she has been painting for five years , mostly commissions which come from friends . |
| 21 | All the turmoil of the past weeks pressed down on her now , that she had arrived at her destination : this slightly tawdry student house with its worn second-hand furniture where she was so obviously unwelcome . |
| 22 | He had absolutely no sense of the woman , least of all where she was now . |
| 23 | They increased the likelihood of a chain of events which put the woman into a position in adult life where she was more likely to experience further social difficulties . |
| 24 | ‘ That could become difficult if he or she was also too close to handling the budget . ’ |
| 25 | Either Mrs Hnatiuk really did not know much about Hank or she was just being perverse . |
| 26 | She had finished her lamb chops , and they were really top-hole , or she was so hungry that anything would have seemed like ambrosia , the food of the gods . |
| 27 | At first the allowance was £10 for each child under sixteen years of age , but this and the income limit were raised during the First World War , and later , in 1919 , the age limit for the child was abolished provided he or she was still in full-time education . |
| 28 | He or she was too ‘ left wing ’ ( ‘ not in tune with the wishes of the rank and file ’ ) or , and this was very rare , too ‘ right wing ’ ( ‘ fails to move with the times ’ ) . |
| 29 | just now , for instance , I could not sit & do nothing , since that only irritates my brain ; & it was then only my pipe that enabled me comfortably to read Rousseau 's ‘ Julie ; or the New Heloise ’ . |
| 30 | But seeing it was never enough . |