Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As usual , the ‘ antiques ’ in the kitchen were things Bob & I used as children . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ When I asked you earlier where I fitted into the assignment you said that I 'd find out soon enough . |
| 6 | where I squinted through the gap in the serving hatch |
| 7 | Where I felt at home . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Back where I came from . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | Now I go back to my home where I came from . |
| 14 | Where I came from no one spoke of such things . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Where I came from . ’ |
| 17 | But where I thought of this part of the game as the worst , Ken positively savoured it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Where I got ta look ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | My father was not a rich man , but he was able to send me to Cambridge University , where I studied for three years . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Anyway , back to Le Coq d'Or where I lay on the truckle bed and drifted off to sleep . |
| 24 | There were points of Government policy where I disagreed with the official line . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Where I stood like |
| 27 | I had to go below ground to an office where I spoke to a policeman . |
| 28 | My next call was to a local Somerset newspaper , where I spoke to a gentleman about the subject of the Chalice Well cover . |
| 29 | An action was instituted — the only libel action where I acted for Harold Wilson which came to court — and I thought it wise to brief a member of the Opposition to act as counsel on his behalf . |
| 30 | He took us to the Þingvellir National park where the clouds parted and the sun shone on square kilometres of snow that was so clean and pure it made me weep for all the time we had lost on the trip , and for the pleasure of being where I wanted to be . |