Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] was [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm going to the Swindon match next Saturday & I was wondering if there was any chance of a lift from deepest London ? |
| 2 | ‘ I have never sought an honour in my life — I just did what I could for my home village where I was born and raised . |
| 3 | Eventually I went along to the British Association of Psychotherapists , where I was assessed and asked if I wanted to see a male or a female therapist . |
| 4 | I told him who I was and where I was staying and then forgot the whole incident . |
| 5 | ‘ I remember when I was in the middle of a presentation in the advertising agency where I was working and the phone went . |
| 6 | Since Dornie was now out of the question , I went on to the Kintail Lodge Hotel , where I was admitted and taken up to a single room which , mercifully , was furnished with an electric fire . |
| 7 | Or Munni , a slum dweller in Delhi , arrested with 11 others and kept overnight at a police station where she was stripped and beaten . |
| 8 | Posh Porky knew exactly when and where she was born and never stopped reminding us all that she was nearly a year younger than anyone else in the class . |
| 9 | On the hearing of the appeal the court ordered that there be no identification of W. , any institution or establishment where she was residing or being educated and any natural person having or prospectively having day to day care of her or of any material calculated to lead to her identification . |
| 10 | Just to look at the cradle he had ready and waiting with its green cover there in the living room transported him , ‘ though it was only a hospital where she was lying and where I sat near her . ’ |
| 11 | She was led away into a crisp-looking cell where she was measured and weighed ; a careful , polite pair of hands found a vein in her strong arm and removed a vial of her blood . |
| 12 | The rain fell against his face as he watched her march out into the dusk , narrow shoulders pulled resolutely back as if she were someone who knew exactly where she was going and what she thought about things . |
| 13 | Where she was going and what happened that summer of 1983 are still a mystery . |
| 14 | After two hours she no longer believed that ordinary delays were keeping her daughter , who , according to her mother , was usually very punctilious about telling her if she was going to be late and where she was going as she knew her mother worried . |
| 15 | No-one knows for certain where she was going or what happened that summer of 1983 . |
| 16 | She knew , or she was persuaded that she knew , where he was bound . |
| 17 | He told me about himself and where he was staying and about how people treated him . |
| 18 | In the following year he invaded Pictish territory , where he was defeated and killed at Nechtansmere , now Dunnichen Moss , near Forfar , on 20 May 685 . |
| 19 | He was taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital where he was treated and released . |
| 20 | After his conviction Stewart was sent to two secure prisons before Springhill … including Horfield in Bristol … where he was assessed and downgraded as being of a low risk . |
| 21 | PRIZE : The Midland Study Centre prize for excellence in Construction Project Management has been won by Adrian Wheeler M. He started the MSc in Construction Project Management at the Centre , which is at the University of Central England , in 1990 sponsored by Dudley Health Authority where he was employed as capital works officer . |
| 22 | He is a remarkable old man in any setting , but in the bushveld of southern Africa , where he was born and has lived for much of his life , he was in his element . |
| 23 | Eventually he was admitted as a voluntary patient to Napsbury Hospital , where he was diagnosed as schizophrenic . |
| 24 | Sammy by now had wormed his way up to the third rung where he was floundering and panting breathlessly . |
| 25 | Sharpe angled away from the river , guiding the horse beside a field of rye which had grown as tall as a man.The field path led uphill , then , after picking a delicate path through a tangled copse where tree roots gave treacherous footing for the horse , Sharpe slid down an earthen bank on to a rutted road where he was shadowed and hidden from the Dragoons by the trees that arched overhead . |
| 26 | It went into the farmhouses where he lodged overnight and where he was known and befriended . |
| 27 | He did what any timorous man in a panic would do , ran away and hid himself within the community , where he was known and respected , and no one would ever guess he had attempted such a deed . ’ |
| 28 | Through the heavy fretwork of its top windows he could see the towering minarets of the Bab es Zuweyla , and from the box window of the storey below , where he was standing when Sesostris approached , he had a good view along the street in both directions . |
| 29 | On Tuesday nights Sidney Passmore must have sat where he was sitting and on Fridays , the undertaker . |
| 30 | Another Harvard dealer moved to Sheppards , a Stock Exchange member firm , where he was telephoned and abused by a Harvard Securities director . |