Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome .
2 I then went to Coventry Belgrade for six months , where I did everything from Malcolm in Macbeth to the play Charlie 's Aunt .
3 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 .
4 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 .
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 After her father 's death she moved to Petersfield , Hampshire , where she supported herself by washing clothes , brewing , and other types of manual work .
11 It causes no pollution , either in terms of fuel consumption or noise , yet finding yourself suddenly cowering in the shadow of a huge coloured parachute at the top of a hill where you imagined yourself to be alone , bursts the illusionary balloon of solitude and remote wilderness for me .
12 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 .
13 That means where you got it from .
14 He seemed to have come to the deep , still centre of the sea : a place where you felt nothing , where you saw nothing except the coal-black atoms that danced before your face and knitted up the dark .
15 I was very bad at gym , and really hated ‘ apparatus ’ , where we hurled ourselves over boxes and horses , or hung upside down on parallel bars .
16 Or we cuffed them under their chin — and after about half a dozen times , they never stopped there again .
17 ‘ 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 . ’
18 It spread to the Chinese around 2 , years ago and then reached Japan where they cultivated it into the art form it is today .
19 Mantack then returned to Donna 's parents house , where they told him about the message .
20 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 .
21 Who had tried what , where they got it from , what it cost , and how they balance the accounts of risk and pleasure .
22 Then they were both fearful for him and they took him into the cold scullery , where they hid him from the intruders .
23 Or they said it to her , I do n't know .
24 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 .
25 He had developed a terrible memory for who he drove and where he drove them to .
26 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 .
27 He insisted we join him for dinner where he regaled us with tidbits of gossip from the court and city .
28 I kissed the rose , and that night , in bed , I placed it where he desired me to .
29 I caught up with Dr Mawhinney at Deacon 's School , a local comprehensive , where he subjected himself to 45 minutes of questioning from 60 youngsters as part of an in-school mock election .
30 ‘ He escorted me to his lodgings , where he treated me with every kindness , and dried my clothes whilst I managed a few hours sleep . ’
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