Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been so badly injured that he was moved to the prison hospital , where I visited him every day . |
| 2 | At the Red Cross warehouse , we were met by Stoyaeka who drove us to her house where she gave us a meal of soup , bread , stew and dumplings , all washed down with a very palatable local red wine . |
| 3 | The last years of her life were divided between Bermuda and Plandome , Long Island , where she built herself an Italian-style villa and where she died 29 October 1924 . |
| 4 | The lady prioress glowered at me , shrugged , and with ill grace took me back to her own chamber across the cloister garden where she poured me the smallest goblet of wine I had ever seen . |
| 5 | Matt put in , ‘ Departing guests pay their accounts at the office , where she gives them a receipt , and Ling takes his list of commodities to her — things to be ordered for the kitchen , you understand . ’ |
| 6 | It was at , it was at the place where the football where you got us a grant playing with those little scum . |
| 7 | A much smaller increase in premium where you loose your no claims bonus following an accident than with most other insurers . |
| 8 | In the houses — never a window opened — in the cars , in the gruesome , echoing hypermarkets set in the middle of nowhere ( where they wished you a ‘ nice day ’ at 10 pm ) . |
| 9 | Every so often , he goes to a local hospital where they give him an injection of something , which cheers him up noticeably . |
| 10 | William was just five months 11 days old at the start ; he had already sailed over 1,500 miles , was the contented centre of attention and was still fresh from triumph in the fancy dress competition , where he earned himself the prize of a furry whale for his appearance as a white mouse . |
| 11 | But although I asked myself the question , I knew the answer . |
| 12 | Er Sadly , although I sent you a letter with suggestions for discussion I forgot to keep a copy of it for myself . |
| 13 | Three of them floated in a sea of garlic and tomato and although I found them no better than chewy chicken my wife told me they were well up to scratch . |
| 14 | You had a death in the family which I could understand , so I lent you a book , which you have n't returned . |
| 15 | He wanted work and to pay for the damage so I offered him a job . ’ |
| 16 | I asked her where she lived and she said Tower Hamlets , so I offered her a lift in the van . |
| 17 | After drawing a blank on Rhodes , I had to write something that justified my travelling expenses , so I made you the villain of the piece . |
| 18 | What a relief it was when a couple of hundred other leeds supporters started going crazy , so I thought what the hell and joined in . |
| 19 | After he left it occurred to me that Harrington and Lewis might also find my effort useful , so I took them a copy . |
| 20 | Choir night , so I get myself an early supper . |
| 21 | But he was always having fun so I suppose its the imagination that counts is n't it . |
| 22 | There was an elderly man about 80 sitting on a seat , so I showed him an old photograph , and he remembered the lady we were with . |
| 23 | ‘ So I owe you an apology ; I misjudged you , too . |
| 24 | All the same , heavy coughing always meant the possibility of water on the lungs which in turn could lead to pneumonia , so I gave her an injection of vitamin K , to thicken the blood , a sleeping pill , some linctus which contained a tiny amount of morphine , and also told her , ‘ Take one of these pills every morning for a week . ’ |
| 25 | I could see that she was scowling and stiffening into a Mark 2 temper , so I gave her an encouraging smile — which raised her , as I expected , to a Mark 3 . |
| 26 | There were a lot of young drunks staggering about , too — most at that noisy and unattractive stage where they might want to be your pal or pick a fight or just throw up on you , so I gave them a wide berth . |
| 27 | I was scared of them but I was n't going to let them get away so I gave them a good run for their money . |
| 28 | I went around being nice to children for a while , being a sort of modern Pied Piper , but I learnt that they 're a manipulative lot and crazy for money , literally crazy for it , so I gave them the elbow . |
| 29 | ‘ So I gave him a clip across the back and told him ‘ No ! ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Well he needed a refill so I gave him a hand to push his hand cart into Berkeley last night . |