Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I du n no if they got nests or nothing to go to at night , but sat there under that bush all huddled up , they look froze to death . |
| 2 | The stories read as distillations of the life or experience of ordinary people ( working people , lower-middle-class and also the ‘ emarginated ’ , the young , the unemployed , the old ) plucked from a grey background where nothing appears to be going on . |
| 3 | And then they want someone else 's help or whatever else and er I can see that they 're concerned that you know they have a concern or want something from me then and I pass on I some action to take place you know for you know I 've on to somebody or someone said to him , I always give my name . |
| 4 | I think it 's a local gardener , or someone went to the filled up all the turf and took it all out . |
| 5 | My knowledge of the fauna is patchy because most of the trapping methods capture only flying insects , and because I have concentrated on groups that I , or someone known to me , can identify . |
| 6 | It is presumably that time which is relevant to the comment which I have n't the heart to repeat here where I refers to the current narrator . |
| 7 | where I hope to be forgiven |
| 8 | where I went to work down there and in a month they put , it was amongst a shop of about sixteen men and they all had separate orders and the men had got little lads working for them , you know . |
| 9 | To come somewhere like this would have been better , somewhere where I had to be in at a certain time , where I could n't have certain people come in . |
| 10 | Where I refer to sections of the Act which confer powers upon the Secretary of State which are now exercised by the S.I.B. , I shall refer to that body . |
| 11 | Their voices can be heard throughout the following pages , where I refer to them consistently by name . |
| 12 | Until I 'm safe in my grave — where I long to be , let me tell you ! — I am still mistress here . ’ |
| 13 | I had to go below ground to an office where I spoke to a policeman . |
| 14 | My next call was to a local Somerset newspaper , where I spoke to a gentleman about the subject of the Chalice Well cover . |
| 15 | He took us to the Þingvellir National park where the clouds parted and the sun shone on square kilometres of snow that was so clean and pure it made me weep for all the time we had lost on the trip , and for the pleasure of being where I wanted to be . |
| 16 | A piece of land where I happened to be born . |
| 17 | I grew up pretty much as everybody else grows up and one day seven years ago I found myself saying to myself — I ca n't live where I want to — I ca n't go where I want to — I ca n't do what I want to — I ca n't even day what I want to . |
| 18 | I grew up pretty much as everybody else grows up and one day seven years ago I found myself saying to myself — I ca n't live where I want to — I ca n't go where I want to — I ca n't do what I want to — I ca n't even day what I want to . |
| 19 | But he was talking to me , and he said , he said ah how , how you getting on over there , and he went yeah , yeah , it 's alright , you know , but it 's not where I want to be , you know , away from me family . |
| 20 | Where I have to be . |
| 21 | If the hon. Member for Oldham , West or I wrote to our local tax inspector and claimed that someone had put a form through our letterbox requiring only our signature for the taxation officer to open up our tax affairs for the past 30 years on the offchance that we might be entitled to something , that would be farcical . |
| 22 | I suppose I see her once or twice a week — she comes in for a cup of tea , or I go to her . |
| 23 | Remember Ma Christie , our Norwegian Pathfinder , who wondered at how his crew just happened to appear as though from some mystique of chance ; how Middleton said in effect " my crew is the best in the Command … leave them be or I return to the Main Force " . |
| 24 | It was all one to him whether he directed a battle or a raid from his headquarters and left the action to others , or himself went to work with lance or sword in the centre of the din ; they were merely complementary skills in the same comprehensive expertise . |
| 25 | If something or somebody seems to be all the go , it takes a determined editor to ignore it even if he thinks it wildly over-rated . |
| 26 | I think y yo you could blip from month to month er , er as a priority slipped in or changed , or a person slipped out or , or somebody forgot to zero something or y |
| 27 | Crawford went to two Christmas parties , where nobody spoke to him and he did n't like the food . |
| 28 | Where somebody goes to a public meeting and does n't say |
| 29 | There 's no point in demonstrating if you do n't get any national press , TV or radio … or nobody listens to you or you get beaten up by the Police … ’ |
| 30 | ( 3 ) In this Act references to the rules of a self-regulating organisation are references to the rules ( whether or not laid down by the organisation itself ) which the organisation has power to enforce in relation to the carrying on of the business in question or which relate to the admission and expulsion of members of the organisation or otherwise to its constitution . |