Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I took to be failures were not my failures but simply where I failed to fit in with what others expected of me . |
| 2 | I had not kept my old key , because I had hoped that my association with Cutwater Charters was done , so I was forced to carry my heavy pack into the tangle of dark alleys that lay behind the straw market and where I planned to find Ellen and borrow her key . |
| 3 | Later he asked , at second-hand , if he could accompany me into the Danakil country , where I planned to travel . |
| 4 | Within minutes I was inside the camp , where I hoped to meet the tinkers who had tried to rob me at Killorglin . |
| 5 | The current carry me where I chose to go . |
| 6 | I 'd never accept a job where I had to wear a skirt . |
| 7 | Years later , I was doing a scene where I had to murder my husband — it was a very dramatic scene and it was in the pit at the Royal Shakespeare Company , so it was just this tiny little theatre , with everybody sitting very close to you , and you can see everybody , and you can hear everything . |
| 8 | At this point I had to fly and catch him up , so I flew to Khabarovsk in far east Siberia where I had to spend a night . |
| 9 | Then I was promoted to assistant cashier at the Wandsworth branch where I had to deal with the toll accounts to go to head office as well as the share accounts and the dividends . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh techniques of surveillance , when you 're sitting alone in a car you move into the passenger seat , make it look as if you 're waiting for the driver to come back … the trouble is , I never got a posting where I had to use it . ’ |
| 11 | They dragged me to the Police Station where I had to make a detailed statement of everything that had happened the first time intercourse took place . |
| 12 | There is an unutterable sadness around Medina del Campo , where I had to change trains for Salamanca . |
| 13 | It took her a while to understand what I wanted and where I wanted to go . |
| 14 | ‘ There was a scene where I wanted to keep my clothes on and I told Adrian ‘ They do n't have to see my breasts in every shot , do they ? ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And where I learned to speak ? |
| 17 | He will recall that dealing with NIE and trying to bring electricity to Rathlin was not one of the easiest tasks that he or I had to undertake . |
| 18 | And it got , in the end , actually , if I was , if I had to do something that was urgent or I had to go somewhere I used to have to say to her something like , you know , erm oh I better get on , I got a lot to do this morning , or I 'm goi I 've to be shopping and be back in time to cook Jim 's dinner or something like that cos he 's starting , oh I 've got ta have his dinner ready at twelve before he goes to work and if I really was pushed otherwise she would have come in every day . |
| 19 | She was n't quite sure where she hoped to get to , what she hoped to achieve , but it felt right . |
| 20 | But she was happiest amongst relatives in the Welsh border country ; at Coleorton , the estate of Sir George Beaumont [ q.v. ] in Leicestershire ( 1806–7 ) , where she returned to keep house for her nephew John Wordsworth at Whitwick rectory ( 1828–9 ) ; or at Cambridge with Christopher . |
| 21 | She was rejected by her family and moved to another town , where she struggled to bring up her son alone and unsupported . |
| 22 | And he got to his feet , skin white beneath his little beard and his brown eyes desperate , and swept the Virgin Mary to the ground , where she failed to break . |
| 23 | She could n't eat any of her meal and went off to school where she had to sit alongside Mr Clark 's daughter . |
| 24 | She was totally unsuited to anything where she had to organize herself . |
| 25 | Some of the more difficult cases turned up at her office , where she had to cope without professional help . |
| 26 | She is also a great letter-writer , a hangover no doubt from years at boarding school , where she had to write to both parents every week . |
| 27 | Scooting down the side-aisle , she ducked past him and out of the shop , where she continued to run blindly until she was caught up against a solid chest . |
| 28 | When at last they began to come out to her in the sun-drenched quadrangle on the Castle 's south side , where she liked to sit , she was patient and cautious . |
| 29 | She knew exactly what she wanted , and where she wanted to go . " |
| 30 | They were driving down the Boulevard St Germain towards the river ; the Seine 's fast-flowing current , parted hard against the piers of the bridges , seemed to Miranda 's eyes to capture the pace and temperament of this city where she felt so happy , where she wanted to stay . |