Example sentences of "and [conj] [pron] [vb past] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The compass could tell me in which direction I had to go — it could n't tell me what lay between where I was , and where I wanted to get to . |
| 2 | We simply had to tell Mazzin that his treatment of us and particularly of Frank was unacceptable to us and that we wanted to speak to his chef . |
| 3 | She was immediately angry with herself for admitting to Eleanor that she had read those newspaper items , and that they had got to her . |
| 4 | Rather than seeing the electorate as independent and politically minded , it has been argued that they were easily susceptible to manipulation from above , and that they tended to defer to the wishes of their social superiors . |
| 5 | I told him that I was English , an ex-paratrooper and that I had come to be a legionnaire . |
| 6 | I told Sir Henry about Laura Lyons , and that I wanted to speak to her as soon as possible . |
| 7 | I think he once did say to me that he was very disturbed at how much ‘ coke ’ David was doing and that it had got to the point where he did n't hide it from deFries , whereas he did for quite a while at first . |
| 8 | We know then that the legend is false and that it became attached to a much older custom , but what was the Horngarth itself and for what purpose was it erected ? |
| 9 | We told the child that there was a chocolate in one of the boxes and that he had to point to one of them — guessing of course — to tell the experimenter where to look for the chocolate . |
| 10 | Fran had read all she could about Luke Calder before the interview and knew that he came from the poorest part of Glasgow and that he had got to where he was today by dint of sheer hard work and determination , but , looking at him now , she found it hard to imagine that he had come from anything but a moneyed background . |
| 11 | He replied that he had tried to get an attorney to break the contract and that he had spoken to this lawyer and that lawyer . |
| 12 | At first interview she said the strain of looking after her mother-in-law was considerable , that it was putting a strain on her marriage in that she and her husband were always quarrelling these days , and that she had got to the point when ‘ I feel I ca n't go on any longer ’ . |
| 13 | He told them that he had separated from his Argentinian-born wife four years ago and that she had returned to Buenos Aires . |
| 14 | They would be beginning to starve ; and once they had dropped to the level of homeless , destitute paupers they would never again rise . |
| 15 | My brother was like that once , he , he used to hate he used to hate he used to hate peas thank you , and once he got invited to a friend of his and there was peas , and he put just of four peas on his plate and said |
| 16 | ‘ And supposing I did talk to someone about my job ? ’ |
| 17 | It also transpired that the couple owned their own house and if they did move to Huntingdon , they would have to live in a council house . |
| 18 | For the simple reason that we have no debt to finance , we have no debts to finance , and if we 'd listened to you over the years , on our sur surplus land and property . |
| 19 | That was in her favour , and if she did happen to be a female tea leaf , well , he was the last person entitled to throw stones . |
| 20 | Fair enough : - I agree that Wilko did a good job breaking in Cantona , and if he 'd gone to the scum then he 'd probably have moved on just as quickly . |
| 21 | He had misjudged the situation , and if he had added to his problems , it was his own fault . |
| 22 | And if you went say to 's where they sell essential oils , theirs are pure oils . |
| 23 | There was no space for two small children or one transversely-mounted adult , not a trace of walnut , and if you wanted to listen to a radio in a Cobra you 'd have needed speakers that would n't have disgraced a heavy-metal band . |
| 24 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 25 | It could n't be that I was right , and while I yearned to return to a certainty I already knew , I heard only my mother 's voice , insisting , on one dead note , that she knew of what life should consist . |
| 26 | Chuck and Joseph , flushed and tousle-haired from their dip , looked in to bid her goodnight , and after they had returned to their hut she tried to resume her book by the lamp . |
| 27 | With luck the senior Girl would tell them precisely what they could or could not do , and when they had to return to the Club . |
| 28 | The two girls were silent as they cooked and when they had to speak to one another spoke in quick , urgent whispers . |
| 29 | Erm , and when they did complain to somebody , like a company man you know well that 's all the farther it went . |
| 30 | And when I went to go to work I pulled me gloves what I thought out of pocket and was going to put them on and I thought er |