Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 A couple of blocks away is John Smiths , where I met my old friend Robert Clow , in company with his number two , Willie Anderson , current treasurer of the BA .
2 The granny table where I ate my toast was now a cocktail cabinet , with studded plastic , three high stools , a Manhattan skyline of siphons and shakers .
3 I lay there in the Bomb Circle where I killed her other son , and I hoped that she was dead , too .
4 I dried off the needle and dropped it into the metal box where I carried my suture materials , scalpels and blades .
5 Where I made my mistake was in not checking back with his number in Freiburg at the edge of the Black Forest .
6 South bank as well 'cause that 's where I started , where I got my first board ever .
7 I felt up from thigh to hip , and leaned close where I judged his face to be , but never a breath or a sign of life .
8 Leaving the main building at bedtime , I walked back through the old walled garden , the churchyard , and down the grassy lane to the cottage annexe where I had my room .
9 I watch the familiar shops and houses go by ; Mum 's old gift shop ( now a video shop ) ; the Arms , where I had my first pint ; Dad 's old garage , still doing business .
10 I came from a B-Cat prison where I had my own basin and toilet .
11 where I showed my hand too soon ,
12 Do n't you remember that lunch we had , where I lost my temper ?
13 I have just visited the Hilliard Society exhibition where I found your magazine .
14 Prices ( including flights ) based on the Taj Holiday Village where I stayed my first week start at £566 per person for seven days ' bed and breakfast ( £738 for fourteen days ) .
15 where I did my placement .
16 I waited for another few seconds and then crossed the landing to my own flat where I completed my own process of locking myself in for the night .
17 By train to Bologna ( where I bought my hiking boots ) , by truck to Rovereto ; thenceforward we moved in daily spurts of twenty or twenty-five miles , always accompanied or monitored , from village to village , farm to farm , on foot , by cart , in preposterous automobiles .
18 You talk about spoilt rich middle-class kids over here , but the truth is if Steve or I saw their houses , we 'd probably think they were lower lower lower middle-class . ’
19 So Mrs Smith left us alone and I stripped off in front of my friend although I made her turn away when I came to my combs .
20 Again , although I felt my ability allowed me to play well enough , I think my lack of live experience held me back a bit , and it was n't until the gig with Whitesnake that I felt totally comfortable with the situation . ’
21 Although I knew my way to the shelter very well , I almost got lost this time .
22 I used pure watercolour at the beginning and although I loved its luminosity , I found that as I usually paint in short stabs rather than broad washes , the thinking time that pure watercolour demands was not ideal for me .
23 Although I did my best not to , something of my scepticism must have betrayed itself , for Mr Farraday then added , as though for reassurance , that were it to prove necessary , then an additional member of staff could be hired .
24 " Although I did my utmost to preserve an emotional detachment " , he writes , " I found again and again that the material under my hands was strangely alive ; it spoke to my condition in the most uncanny way . "
25 Although I terminated my business , I had to keep the photocopier going , ’ says Anne Orchardson .
26 ‘ It was not until I saw how Messer Bartolomeo 's news was received by your friends that I realised its importance for you . ’
27 It was only as I read your article that I realised my husband had n't been receiving an allowance for a dependant — me !
28 Er I just ringing through to say that I heard your er broadcast last week in respect of Carnfield Hall and I went on Saturday afternoon a gentleman named Hugh rang you up .
29 It was on one of these weekend trips to Regina that I wrote my first outside interview for the paper — an interview with John Philip Sousa .
30 But you who knew me , pass on these words : that I squandered my youth for my country , that while the ship was fighting I kept to my post up in the cross trees and , when she sank-I went down with her . ’ ’
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