Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've only got to the end of the year but my family will be carrying on where I left off . |
| 2 | Back to London , pick up where I left off , more crimes and misdemeanours , more Anthony Stewarts and the commonplace killings that proceed from a lifetime of domestic loathing , or lust , or rivalry , or greed . |
| 3 | ‘ The point is — do I want to take up where I left off ? ’ |
| 4 | Back in the old days , in the Fifties , before the nights of car-park-training , people kept big dogs , with names like Nero and Saladin , Sakkie and Doris ; dogs that roamed the sandy ex-Servicemen 's estate where I grew up , on the edge of Johannesburg , a jumble of sandy streets named after English kings and queens . |
| 5 | Jeffrey : My first sexual encounters were in South Wales , where I grew up . |
| 6 | ‘ Not round where I grew up , they 're not , ’ Cashman said . |
| 7 | Says Lee : ‘ I have never lost my affection for Manchester City where I spent so many happy years during the club 's successful period , and like so many others I have been disturbed by the events of the last few weeks . ’ |
| 8 | A policeman came to call on me that Thursday evening , after Angy 's body had been found , asking what time the class ended and where I went afterwards … that sort of thing . |
| 9 | He was at the Bristol Vic Theatre School where I went too , and we both get on tremendously . ’ |
| 10 | It is compatible with Windows , but if you 've got Windows would you need another system of file management ? and is n't that where I came in ! |
| 11 | Ah , well , back to that banquet in Hampton Court where I got royally drunk . |
| 12 | A good night out for me would be one where I got home and nobody had played any tricks on me . |
| 13 | This fact I had ample opportunities of verifying on the islands of Bass 's Straits , where I had scarcely stepped from the boat before every creature was made acquainted with my presence — no small annoyance to me , whose object was to secure the wary cereopsis and eagle , which with thousands of petrels and many other kinds of water-birds tenant these dreary islands . ’ |
| 14 | I opened it , and I got my answer , and it set me thinking afresh and seeing clearly where I had formerly been blind . |
| 15 | The water-trough was about twelve yards from the barn door where I had just appeared ; and between the door and the water-trough was a single post . |
| 16 | Before getting into bed I went into the large bathroom beside her bedroom , where I had n't been before . |
| 17 | McEnroe was philosophical : ‘ It just got to be too long where I had n't won the big one . |
| 18 | I suppose that at school , where I had so little sleep , this assertion was true . |
| 19 | I got myself elected onto the Students ' Council where I muddled through , never having read the agenda papers and often not knowing what on earth everyone else was talking about . |
| 20 | ‘ That was no carver 's or miniaturist 's craft , but black magic , for that was the castle in which I lived , and the forests and meadows round it were mine , where I roamed freely , with my beloved brother , until the black artist came one night seeking shelter from foul weather . |
| 21 | I was at a meeting in London yesterday where I handed over my report . ’ |
| 22 | So it was an immediate retreat to Fort William for celebratory pakora and a chicken breast curry , where I changed out of my walking gear into some jeans to look like a local . |
| 23 | I began to tremble violently and would have fainted , had he not grabbed me by the elbow and guided me to a low wall , where I slumped down . |
| 24 | He interviewed me , asking my name , where I worked etc — I got a plug in for Scottish Amicable of course . |
| 25 | Where I needed more obvious hints of colour , values such as 221 , light pink , were overlaid with 821 , pale grey . |
| 26 | ‘ Sometimes I ask myself what have I done with my career , ’ she jokes , ‘ coming back to do rep , exactly where I started off . |
| 27 | We called at Brigade H.Q where I picked up my bagpipes . |
| 28 | Another pull for ten minutes or so brought me up on to the summit , where I sat down to have my lunch . |
| 29 | In 1941 I was trained as a Navigator/Radio in the RAF and was eventually sent to an OTU where I crewed up with a Canadian pilot , Bob Tidy of Toronto . |
| 30 | If I could get away somewhere , away from Glesca , somewhere quiet where I did n't know anyone , I 'd be able to get a job and settle down , no bother . |