Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We sat on our stools and I smiled at him , thinking he was going to ask me about my dress or where I lived or something , and he said , ‘ Who 's your favourite philosopher ? ’ |
| 2 | Mallards , coots and moorhens could often be seen and heard waddling about the housing estate where I lived or sometimes even boldly marching up the high street . |
| 3 | Where I lived and that ? |
| 4 | On the minus side , they knew what I looked like , where I lived and what I drove . |
| 5 | Only after 1 February can I go more or less where I please and then there is a need to work quite quickly since the ferreting season ends in April when the fast-growing vegetation and the increasing arrival of litters of young rabbits make it impractical to continue . |
| 6 | I used to go along to Greenbank Hospital 's geriatric wards , where I sang and played to the old folk . |
| 7 | In the end I decided it did n't matter much where I went as long as it was up . |
| 8 | ‘ I once gave a speech where I said that most of recorded music was like stuffed birds in a cage , that do n't sing . |
| 9 | What is more , the journey via New York and Los Angeles included a first leg of the marathon journey on a British Airways Concorde , where I enjoyed that extraordinary experience of arriving in Manhattan — thanks to the five hours time difference — more than an hour before the 10.30 am departure time from Heathrow . |
| 10 | FALL-OUT at Credit Lyonnais Laing , where I hear that 12 staff from UK research , equity sales , dealing and settlements were bid farewell a week ago . |
| 11 | It 's quiet where I live but they 're , they 're nosy . |
| 12 | There 's a junkshop near where I live that sells TVs , videos , air rifles , fishing rods , car radios , outdated hi-fis , cheap guitars and all the general paraphernalia of unfortunate people 's overdrawn lives . |
| 13 | There are various likely barns near where I live where she might seek shelter , and I 've always managed to lure her back with food . |
| 14 | You may think Loxford light years behind Woodborough , but it is my patch , where I live and work , however anachronistic . |
| 15 | So it was indeed a classic nightmare where I dreamt that I was the only person searching for the child , and the only person who saw that this vast Argosy was down near the coastline , and I landed in a most difficult position near the aircraft and found nobody else about . |
| 16 | I went along to the dining car where I found that Zak had already positioned some of the actors at the tables for the cocktail-hour double-length scene . |
| 17 | I read through my brother 's Readers Digest , where I learned that Stalin was a bad name . |
| 18 | Following the path with my thoughts wallowing in nostalgia , I soon found myself back where I started and crashing into the people I had heard through the mist . |
| 19 | But I am determined to fight back , and where I think that they 've gone over the top , I 'll take them to court . |
| 20 | Her battered , motley-panelled 2CV had looked out of place in Ascot Square , where I think that anything less than a two-year old Golf GTi , Peugeot 209 or Renault 5 was considered to be only just above banger status , even as a third car , let alone a second . |
| 21 | I made my way to an hotel lounge in the Diamond , where I sat and read a leaflet I had picked up in the church . |
| 22 | We parked near the boathouse on the west shore , a ruined , mud-filled RAF building , where I pushed and heaved my three companions afloat , waving a cheerful farewell . |
| 23 | ‘ Well Else read out this bit from a book by Billy Graham , The Secret of 'Appiness it 's called , where 'e says that a man told 'im 'e only took a bath once a week , and Billy Graham told 'im there was something wrong with 'is purity of heart . ’ |
| 24 | Where she belonged and wished to be , she would direct . |
| 25 | When discussing a passage in Dorothy 's German journal , where she states that she ‘ carried Kubla to a fountain in the neighbouring market-place , where I drank some excellent water ’ , one editor allowed himself to speculate upon the existence of a missing manuscript copy of Kubla Khan . |
| 26 | Sometimes the most immense-changes are given to us in a short story of only a few pages : Chekhov 's ‘ Let Me Sleep ’ sees an exhausted , brutalised servant-girl murder a baby in six pages ; Katherine Mansfield 's ‘ Revelations ’ sees a woman who longs for freedom and independence rush for security to an unloved but ardent suitor — because everything feels strange at her hairdresser 's , where she learns that a tragedy has occurred — in seven pages . |
| 27 | Moira Russell returned her smile , and went to another door in the room , where she tapped and went in . |
| 28 | Where she met where she met him then ? |
| 29 | She spent a pleasant few minutes thinking of her small business where she designed and made exclusive wedding gowns for a rapidly growing circle of customers , but Dana 's early-morning phone call refused to be dismissed . |
| 30 | Whenever a female enters his territory he courts her by swimming in a zig-zag dance , eventually leading her to the next where she enters and he prods her tail to entice her to lay her eggs . |