Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Or they said it to her , I do n't know . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He had developed a terrible memory for who he drove and where he drove them to . |
| 7 | I kissed the rose , and that night , in bed , I placed it where he desired me to . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Venicoff it was held that when the Secretary of State was deporting a person where he deemed it to be conducive to the public good , he was acting in an executive and not in a judicial capacity . |
| 10 | He would no sooner place his arm where he wanted it to be than his upper body was wracked by a spasm . |
| 11 | On learning of this , Achym pursued his steward for three miles to Bury Down , where he did him to death at a place known as Slew Gate . |
| 12 | He used to go to a lotta places er that as knocked down or , well I could n't tell you the kind of job , but often there was some locks on the premises was er , perhaps needed repair or he wanted them to be in before he could leave the job and say here you are , that 's the job done . |
| 13 | Mr. Rifkind did not reply to my letter although I addressed it to him personally at the House of Commons … |
| 14 | It was not that I was so self-blind that I saw nothing to be learnt . |
| 15 | While he was out I had rewritten my will so that I left nothing to my ex . |
| 16 | My regard for her was reflected in the fact that I asked her to be my son , Giles 's godmother . |
| 17 | I made sure that I enjoyed it to the full , although it was wartime . |
| 18 | I seem to remember that I unburdened myself to you , a while back . ’ |
| 19 | I was so superior that I considered myself to be virtually beyond criticism . |
| 20 | ‘ Maybe not , but if I were you , Miss Williams , I 'd make sure that I confined myself to facts in future , and the most pressing one of all is the fact that someone in this town is annoyed with you ! ’ |
| 21 | I felt that I needed someone to be with me all day and all night . |
| 22 | A number of myths have grown up about David 's relationship with me — one of them being that I wanted him to be another Tommy Steele or another cabaret star , but this was not true . |
| 23 | Not that I wanted you to be my lover . |
| 24 | I gave him a draft of the first chapter and explained that I wanted it to be the sort of book that would sell in airport book stalls . |
| 25 | In the third place , you may recall that I escorted you to your room at half-past twelve ; but the college gates are locked at midnight , from which it follows that I would have had to rouse the duty porter in order both to be let out and to be let in again , something he will most certainly confirm I did not do . |
| 26 | He 's trying to make out that I gave it to him when I gave him a spoonful of that … stuff … |
| 27 | I 've been lucky : Scathach has returned only four years older than I expected him to be . ’ |
| 28 | was more valuable than I expected it to be ; |
| 29 | So I do n't know about anybody else but that 's cheaper than I expected it to be . |
| 30 | He said the idea of a single currency was ‘ even less realistic than I believed it to be nine months ago ’ . |