Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Either the seeds blew in — or someone planted them as a joke , ’ said a senior officer . |
| 2 | But Bob said to me where I bought it from , he said I do n't think it would survive the winter because it comes from the Scilly Isles which is warmer . |
| 3 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 4 | As a former winner at Dornoch ( 1985 ) , where nobody took him beyond the 16th green , Garth has the right credentials for a marathon week 's work — sound legs and wind , a good nerve , great concentration , and all the shots for a course that will test the strong and mock the timid . |
| 5 | Tired and confused after the journey , I followed the servant into a large building , where she left me in a sitting-room . |
| 6 | She put the sheet of paper in an envelope , addressed it clearly , added the word ‘ Urgent ’ and carried it down to the office , where she left it for collection and received instead the original and the photostats of her article . |
| 7 | Mildred slid him carefully into her pocket and raced up the stairs to her room , where she transferred him to a small box with holes in the lid which she had prepared specially for the journey . |
| 8 | Clare levered the coins off the counter , and carried her cup out into the small enclosure , where she balanced it on an unsteady iron table , her feet cushioned by a carpet of litter . |
| 9 | He might have been cut out of cardboard , she thought , as she led him across the hall and into the dining -room , where she introduced him to Susan . |
| 10 | And that if you do n't pick them up and put them back where you got them from , they are still there two weeks later , and the house looks a bit of a tip . |
| 11 | That means where you got it from . |
| 12 | Det Chief Insp Barry Hill said : ‘ Anyone who knows Mr McEvoy or who saw him on Saturday May 23 is asked to ring Middlesbrough 326326 and ask for the Hartlepool incident room . ’ |
| 13 | But yesterday Labour candidate Alan Milburn said : ‘ It was n't Darlington Council who imposed the poll tax on the town or who kept it for a year longer than necessary . |
| 14 | Or we cuffed them under their chin — and after about half a dozen times , they never stopped there again . |
| 15 | ‘ They have admitted some of the questions on this paper are too difficult for the children and in Anthony 's school , where they took it as a class test , I believe the highest marks were about 40 or 42pc . ’ |
| 16 | It spread to the Chinese around 2 , years ago and then reached Japan where they cultivated it into the art form it is today . |
| 17 | Mantack then returned to Donna 's parents house , where they told him about the message . |
| 18 | They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours . |
| 19 | Who had tried what , where they got it from , what it cost , and how they balance the accounts of risk and pleasure . |
| 20 | Then they were both fearful for him and they took him into the cold scullery , where they hid him from the intruders . |
| 21 | Or they said it to her , I do n't know . |
| 22 | Mr Woodcock , 47 , of Holgate , York , grabbed the weapon with one hand and it went off , blasting a wall with pellets , but he hung on , dragging the raider into the car park outside the restaurant , where he pinned him to the ground until armed police arrived . |
| 23 | He had developed a terrible memory for who he drove and where he drove them to . |
| 24 | No he did n't er P C found some trousers , I 'm not sure where he got them from er and put them on for him . |
| 25 | He insisted we join him for dinner where he regaled us with tidbits of gossip from the court and city . |
| 26 | I kissed the rose , and that night , in bed , I placed it where he desired me to . |
| 27 | ‘ He escorted me to his lodgings , where he treated me with every kindness , and dried my clothes whilst I managed a few hours sleep . ’ |
| 28 | Probing with his narrow hands he located the organs he sought , and , using another slender knife , dislodged and withdrew them , handing them to his assistant , who placed them in bronze trays and took them to another table where he covered them with natron salt , to dry and preserve them ready for the four jars which would stand in a chest at the head of the coffin . |
| 29 | Venicoff it was held that when the Secretary of State was deporting a person where he deemed it to be conducive to the public good , he was acting in an executive and not in a judicial capacity . |
| 30 | He took Ellie by her forearm , and marched her down the landing and the painted uncarpeted stairs into the living room , where he sat her in the big chair in the corner . |