Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They brought their families , some of them intermarried with time-expired soldiers who chose to settle here , too , and it grew into a real , life-and-death town , where everyone had a stake sunk so deep that when the legions started to leave , the locals still could n't get out . |
| 2 | Like an overgrown Bisto kid I sniffed and aaahed my way to the source of the oaky-smokey smell , where I met a man whom I am very pleased to know . |
| 3 | This prompted me to look through my own collection , where I discovered a copy dated August 1931 , priced 2/ |
| 4 | I crept out of the sitting-room and into the small room next door , where I chose a book full of pictures from the bookcase . |
| 5 | I would follow the police officers escorting the prisoner or prisoners up a flight of stairs into the small but impressive court-room , where I took a chair reserved for reporters at counsel 's table . |
| 6 | I came out of the army and returned to the Bideford Gazette where I had a year of my newspaper apprenticeship still to go . |
| 7 | ‘ Eventually we got to Lagrimone , a little place between Langhirano and Monchio on the way to the passo di Lagastrello , where I know a family . |
| 8 | For me the most dangerous aspect of the job has been not so much the very real dangers in the field as the psychological vertigo of alternating for months at a time between the utter extremes of the planet ; from the film markets of California 's Hollywood Hills , where I rented an A-frame , to the remotest jungles of the East . |
| 9 | I was lucky to halve the match with her , and this flattering result was mostly due to a fortuitous birdie on the last hole , where I holed a pitch and run shot from short of the green . |
| 10 | I had reached the dizzy heights of compère at the Fiesta , one of the North 's most prestigious night clubs , where I did an hour spot and introduced acts like Ella Fitzgerald and Nancy Wilson , as well as all the top British acts . |
| 11 | This may happen where someone makes a recording for anything other than private and domestic use without consent . |
| 12 | This could occur where someone has a lien over the goods , i.e. a right to retain possession of them until a debt is paid . |
| 13 | An hour later , Lalage came tip-toeing into her room where she heard a dog whining gently . |
| 14 | She walked at a leisurely pace to the back of the hold , where she unlocked a control panel and pressed several buttons . |
| 15 | Suitably deglamorised , even to the extent of hiding her shapeliness beneath loose-fitting garments , she made her way to G Vasey Ltd , where she spent a morning being shown to her office , and being introduced around the contracts and purchasing department . |
| 16 | At last , in an effort to bring her mind back to an even keel , she went to the office , where she discovered a pile of farm accounts had been left on the desk . |
| 17 | What she did was to go through her cupboards , where she discovered a dress which had once belonged to Clara 's cousin , and which had been enclosed years before in a charitable parcel of hands-on . |
| 18 | One of Aunt Tossie 's luxuries was an early breakfast in bed — later she came down to the dining room where she ate a second . |
| 19 | She looked around the vestibule , suddenly aware that this room where she ate a brioche and drank milky coffee as if at a feast of the gods on those mornings when she managed to get up in time was a mere dingy parlour , the curtains grey with city smuts , the tables pocked and charred by cigarettes . |
| 20 | A year or so later she told everyone that they must make an annual pilgrimage to that city , where she had a cousin in the catering trade who was prepared to give them all cheap rates , but by that time Rose was losing her grip on the faithful . |
| 21 | Editorial assistant Paula Lockey spent a day at Grayshott Hall Health and Fitness Resort where she had a body massage , a reflexology consultation and an hour-long Cathiodermie facial . |
| 22 | She arrived at her hotel in Mariánské Láznë early on Thursday afternoon , where she had a snack in her room while she got out Cara 's list and memorised again all the questions she was to put to Mr Vendelin Gajdusek in the morning . |
| 23 | Leaving them all stunned , she walked out to the lounging boatmen , where she commandeered a motorboat . |
| 24 | A jar was found for the snowdrops , then she made her way to the office , where she opened a bag of mail and sorted what were obviously accounts , from private letters . |
| 25 | Instead , she wandered into town , where she bought a bag of chips , well soused in vinegar and wrapped in newspaper ; she took the bag to her room , where she sat on the edge of the single bed , slowly eating chips in the dark and thinking . |
| 26 | ‘ I think the young man is right , ’ said Mrs Grandison ‘ I do n't remember seeing you take a pudding . |
| 27 | Take that camera with you — the miniature job Zeiss developed for us where you get a picture within a minute of taking the shot . |
| 28 | I follow Rachel up the stairs , feeling like I just paid money in one of those Soho hotels where you take a girl and hire a room by the hour . |
| 29 | The ticket hall had one of those systems where you take a number from a machine by the door and wait for it to appear above one of the ticket windows . |
| 30 | where you take a picture of a building and you |