Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [coord] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to go along to Greenbank Hospital 's geriatric wards , where I sang and played to the old folk . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Where she belonged and wished to be , she would direct . |
| 5 | Moira Russell returned her smile , and went to another door in the room , where she tapped and went in . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He took her hand and led her into the atrium , where she turned and went into his arms . |
| 8 | Lucy was also aware that Doreen 's previous anger appeared to have vanished as she carried refilled plates back to the long table , where she chatted and laughed with the men and the two guides . |
| 9 | Jean-Claude 's working table stood under the window upstairs where we slept and stored our few clothes . |
| 10 | The house we sat in was still in chaos , so she led me to the sunny kitchen , where we talked and drank coffee , surrounded by boxes and plants and the smell of paint . |
| 11 | Before lunch Eva had us traipse out into the garden , where we bent and stretched , and sat with our backs straight , and breathed through alternate nostrils before we ate our salads and fruit . |
| 12 | I do n't know how this happened , but er erm a piece of wood or something fell and hit him on the back of the neck and woke him up and he woke up from the vivid dream of being at the time of the French Revolution , of being lead up the guillotine and having his head chopped off . |
| 13 | The current legislation allows benefit to be backdated indefinitely by reason only of a mistake made or something done or omitted to be done by an officer of the DHSS . |
| 14 | ‘ To their credit they ran straight to the nearby housing estate where they live and alerted their father . ’ |
| 15 | The Crown described how Maher held a gun to Mrs Kennedy 's neck when the men first arrived , bundling her and the three terrified boys upstairs to the bathroom , where they bound and gagged them . |
| 16 | The LNWR remained in the original section of the Saltley Works , where they built and repaired their own rolling stock until 1865 . |
| 17 | Miguel had provided a carriage and pair for the newly-weds , and they had the privilege of riding up to Casa Madrid , where they rested and freshened up while the rest of the guests walked up the hill . |
| 18 | They were particularly influential in the later new towns where they reaffirmed and codified practice already established in the ‘ Mark I ’ towns . |
| 19 | As we came into view , hairy male legs moving like pistons beat a hasty retreat to the nearest available nook where they crouched and huddled in speechless terror . |
| 20 | Or anyone knocked or banged it ? |
| 21 | He seems to have travelled in the Rhineland , and was in Paris in 1241 , when he commemorated the arrival of the relics of the crucifixion , and then in Angers , where he taught and disputed with local poets . |
| 22 | His father is first traced as opening a tailor 's shop at 34 Milk Street , Bristol , in 1803 , where he lived and continued his trade until 1831 . |
| 23 | His own sense of Scottishness was nurtured in Leeds where his soldier father was dispatched for wartime treatment for burns and where he met and married Ian 's mother . |
| 24 | Angry at being separated from Jeanne , Modigliani spent much of his time drinking in a windowless little bar where local artists met , where he drank and ran up debts . |
| 25 | Thom worked throughout World War II at the Royal Aircraft Establishment , Farnborough , where he commissioned and ran the high-speed tunnel , enabling the study of problems encountered at high subsonic aircraft speeds causing locally supersonic flow . |
| 26 | He then proceeded to another of his homes , Cornbury Park , where he relaxed and took in a little hunting . |
| 27 | He was able to get away for a two week holiday in Switzerland at the end of August , where he relaxed and swam in Lake Geneva : it was the one European country which he found not to have changed out of all recognition , and he took an annual holiday there . |
| 28 | The man now walked down the central aisle and halted beside the projector , where he turned and spoke . |
| 29 | Stepping forward , he advanced to the centre of the arena , where he stopped and saluted Angel One with a half bow . |
| 30 | Brandishing a handgun , he forced the 23-year-old boyfriend into the boot , where he bound and gagged him before dragging the terrified woman into his own vehicle . |