Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like an overgrown Bisto kid I sniffed and aaahed my way to the source of the oaky-smokey smell , where I met a man whom I am very pleased to know . |
| 2 | This prompted me to look through my own collection , where I discovered a copy dated August 1931 , priced 2/ |
| 3 | In the end I retreated to the sofa , where I spent a cold , uncomfortable and furiously sleepless night . |
| 4 | I crept out of the sitting-room and into the small room next door , where I chose a book full of pictures from the bookcase . |
| 5 | I would follow the police officers escorting the prisoner or prisoners up a flight of stairs into the small but impressive court-room , where I took a chair reserved for reporters at counsel 's table . |
| 6 | I came out of the army and returned to the Bideford Gazette where I had a year of my newspaper apprenticeship still to go . |
| 7 | ‘ Eventually we got to Lagrimone , a little place between Langhirano and Monchio on the way to the passo di Lagastrello , where I know a family . |
| 8 | I had the opportunity to visit the north-west on Monday , where I found a good deal of buoyancy and confidence in the future of the north-west and of the country as a whole . |
| 9 | I was lucky to halve the match with her , and this flattering result was mostly due to a fortuitous birdie on the last hole , where I holed a pitch and run shot from short of the green . |
| 10 | There is one place where I can say I am at home , where I can live in peace and quiet with my most beloved father and my dearest sister , where I can do as I like , where apart from the duties of my appointment I am my own master , and where I have a permanent income and yet can go off when I like , and travel every second year … |
| 11 | ‘ Well — if you 'll excuse me I 'll go to my room , where I have a good book . |
| 12 | Where I have a little concern and that 's only 'cos I do n't know the of all of it , is that you are picking up , yes very minor non-conformances but in practice fairly large numbers in a fairly short time scale what I would be concerned about is when you get your B S I audit that these other areas that you have n't looked at have got equally this lack of attention to detail , that you end up with not only major break down in your system , but sufficient minor breakdowns in your system , to cause them to say that they wo n't give you registration . |
| 13 | I was articled in Worthing in 1966 with the Borough Council where I undertook a wide variety of conveyancing and litigation , and as a local authority employee , I was authorised to appear on its behalf in the Magistrates ' Court which gave me early experience in advocacy . |
| 14 | An hour later , Lalage came tip-toeing into her room where she heard a dog whining gently . |
| 15 | This bitch was also mated before she came into quarantine in this country , where she produced a large litter of ten . |
| 16 | She walked at a leisurely pace to the back of the hold , where she unlocked a control panel and pressed several buttons . |
| 17 | Suitably deglamorised , even to the extent of hiding her shapeliness beneath loose-fitting garments , she made her way to G Vasey Ltd , where she spent a morning being shown to her office , and being introduced around the contracts and purchasing department . |
| 18 | No one who saw the 1986 Gold Cup and knew of Dawn Run 's subsequent fate could look with unmixed emotions on her statue by the Cheltenham parade ring , where she left a permanent mark on racing history . |
| 19 | She was privately educated , and then went to Lady Margaret Hall , Oxford , where she took a third class in classical honour moderations in 1897 . |
| 20 | After they left , the victim became ill and was taken to hospital where she died a few hours later . |
| 21 | There she acquired the qualifications that took her in 1881 to Newnham College , Cambridge , where she got a first in the moral sciences tripos in 1884 , and a second in history in 1885 ; she also helped to form the Association of Assistant Mistresses . |
| 22 | But the alternative of returning to the hall , and traversing its crowded sixty-foot length to gain the opposite staircase leading to the upper storey , where she shared a tiny chamber with Adele and two of Matilda 's ladies , was just as unappealing . |
| 23 | What she did was to go through her cupboards , where she discovered a dress which had once belonged to Clara 's cousin , and which had been enclosed years before in a charitable parcel of hands-on . |
| 24 | At last , in an effort to bring her mind back to an even keel , she went to the office , where she discovered a pile of farm accounts had been left on the desk . |
| 25 | She came to England in 1904 to study at the London School of Economics , where she wrote a doctoral thesis on the development of New South Wales , gaining a D.Sc . |
| 26 | She looked around the vestibule , suddenly aware that this room where she ate a brioche and drank milky coffee as if at a feast of the gods on those mornings when she managed to get up in time was a mere dingy parlour , the curtains grey with city smuts , the tables pocked and charred by cigarettes . |
| 27 | One of Aunt Tossie 's luxuries was an early breakfast in bed — later she came down to the dining room where she ate a second . |
| 28 | She rubbed her arm , where she had a large bruise above the elbow . |
| 29 | Editorial assistant Paula Lockey spent a day at Grayshott Hall Health and Fitness Resort where she had a body massage , a reflexology consultation and an hour-long Cathiodermie facial . |
| 30 | A year or so later she told everyone that they must make an annual pilgrimage to that city , where she had a cousin in the catering trade who was prepared to give them all cheap rates , but by that time Rose was losing her grip on the faithful . |