Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm one of those er that I 've got two er , points to make , one is to , to , there 's a recording somewhere going on er er it 's erm not anything really to do with er us , but we have agreed or someone 's agreed on our behalf but er the person can do the recordings but it 's er of an educational nature to er help students with their language , but er we shall be completely anonymous so if |
| 2 | Lili and I were silent and I wondered for a moment how I would be feeling if I was going to marry the man I loved — had loved , I amended in my mind , for surely even I could n't be so idiotic as to love still where I had met with such treachery . |
| 3 | As for myself , I was back where I had begun in Opposition . |
| 4 | The area deserved a better treatment : I had not done justice to a part of northern England where I had wandered as a youngster and often visited later , developing an affection that has persisted into old age . |
| 5 | The questions of who I was , where I had come from and where I was going struck them with confusion . |
| 6 | Where I had come from , in the English provinces , the markets were quite small , and reserved for food . |
| 7 | To be frank with you , I 've never found a space in a lead break where I 've felt like using a whammy move . ’ |
| 8 | And that includes the London School of Economics , where I 've lectured for years . ’ |
| 9 | That , and my only tape , ‘ Shepherd Moons ’ , reminding me of where I 've been and where I 've come from . |
| 10 | I 'm just back from the railway station , where I have deposited in Left Luggage a small brown parcel containing one Smith & Wesson and two dozen rounds , and I have detoured on the way back to buy three more shirts , some underpants and some socks . |
| 11 | I do think there are problems and difficulties , I do n't think it will be easy , not least because we do n't have a shared morality and a shared consensus , on the objectives for the voluntary sector , but it is a set of concerns which we must address , er , and I believe that if , if I 've done nothing else today , I 've kicked off a debate , or I 've contributed to a debate which was already rolling , erm , and that we must address those difficulties , and try and find ways through them , because there are opportunities as well as threats in the current situation and I believe we have to look at all of those er , so that we can move into the nineteen nineties which I believe will be a very exciting period for the voluntary sector , and one which the voluntary sector should er , see as exciting , grab the opportunities and move forward . |
| 12 | My father had been embarrassed when my mother or I had wept at the time of his leaving . |
| 13 | In my first flat I had a very large cupboard that was always filled with things I could never find a use for , or I had forgotten about . |
| 14 | Or I 'd thought of getting a teaching qualification — maybe starting my own commercial language school . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ To the well-deserving Gaius Seius I leave and wish to be granted in addition that neither from him nor from his heirs should be claimed whatever he owes me on the basis of documents or accounts or has borrowed from me or I have guaranteed for him . ’ |
| 16 | 11.1 You will keep secret and will not disclose to any third party ( except sub-contractors accepting a like obligation of secrecy , and then only to the extent necessary for the performance of the sub-contract ) all information given by us in connection with this order , or which becomes known to you through your performance of work under this order . |
| 17 | Section 238 applies in the case of a company in respect of which an administration order has been made or which has gone into liquidation . |
| 18 | This goal is still far from fruition but some progress has been made , particularly by groups and organizations which have had limited but specific objectives ( eg the production of teaching media ) or which have functioned within one educational level ( eg academic libraries ) . |
| 19 | Towards the end , she had been moved to the big green bedroom in the West Tower , where she lay propped on high pillows , often delirious , each day weaker and weaker . |
| 20 | Shannon named the television station where she 'd worked before turning freelance , and the other woman pursed her lips thoughtfully . |
| 21 | And all the time , she thought as she sat at her desk nursing the remains of her hangover , Angy had been dead in her little one-room flat , alone and open-eyed , lying where she had fallen with the knife in her throat and her lifeblood flooding her lungs . |
| 22 | Beg at Duart gate to be let in , where she had ruled till two hours ago ? |
| 23 | She was exhausted , and her bruises , where she had tumbled on the floor , ached uncomfortably . |
| 24 | She had already spent an hour weeding and was determined to uproot a particularly tough dandelion ; then coffee , then the weekend shopping and then off to the sailing club where she had enrolled for a course of lessons in board-sailing . |
| 25 | It was so much more congenial than the flat near Victoria — unsuitably dominated by Westminster Cathedral — where she had lived with her mother . |
| 26 | Twelve days before her death Mrs Gilfoyle had started maternity leave from the Champion Spark Plug factory , where she had worked for 17 years . |
| 27 | None of them knew that she had been with the FBI for two years , where she had specialized in the use of firearms , before joining UNACO three years ago . |
| 28 | My mother was reading to me from A Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia , and I can remember exactly where she had got to in the book when , thinking I looked feverish , she took my temperature and put me to bed . |
| 29 | Neighbours complained that 90-year-old Gladys Mills was making too much noise at her flat in Weymouth , Dorset , where she has lived for 12 years . |
| 30 | Maude 's telegram from the Queen was also expected this morning at Trees Park Village , near Middleton St George , where she has lived for the last seven years . |