Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | [ But ] I do n't want an agreement where I have to apply to court to get them out . |
| 4 | You ended up like poor old Eddy Moulton , put out to pasture in some quiet department where nobody bothered to talk to you , doing small unworthy chores and dozing the day away . |
| 5 | She was n't quite sure where she hoped to get to , what she hoped to achieve , but it felt right . |
| 6 | She could n't eat any of her meal and went off to school where she had to sit alongside Mr Clark 's daughter . |
| 7 | Some of the more difficult cases turned up at her office , where she had to cope without professional help . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Through her efforts a mission hall was built , where she started to lecture on moral purity . |
| 10 | They 've earned success on the back of prudent and adequate investment in a high skill level — the factor which decides above all else where you come to rest on the continuum from the under-developed third world economies , to the high performing advanced nations . |
| 11 | I mean God knows , I 'm the last person in the world to worry about that sort of thing , but there does come a point in your career where you have to think about it . |
| 12 | Indirect sex discrimination occurs where you have to comply with a requirement which is , or would be , applied equally to a person of the opposite sex , but : |
| 13 | All I 'd say is that what you have to do Is to ask questions which although are apparently about what you want to do … where you want to get to should really be telling you about the person you 're — " |
| 14 | You need to use THEN if it is followed by : or you wish to exit from a function as a result of the test . |
| 15 | Either you put some flesh on the bones of your idea and your plan really takes off , or you begin to think of all the reasons why it wo n't work after all . |
| 16 | When a bather wanted more hot water , he or she had to shout over the noise of filling baths and protesting bathers and the Duchesse singing , and depending on how this eccen-tric woman felt , she would either top up the water from a source outside the cubicles or tell the bather his time was up . |
| 17 | He or she learns to listen to the other members of the group describe their " " pictures ' " and this gives a wider perspective on reality than is possible for one individual in isolation . |
| 18 | If an individual has problems at a particular stage he or she tends to regress to an earlier stage and to be dominated , or fixated , by the behaviour and attitudes of that stage . |
| 19 | First , ask : ‘ Why should he or she want to write about me ? ’ second , and just as important , consider : ‘ Why should his or her editor want to publish an item about me ? ’ |
| 20 | What this means is that the individual in public feels obliged to broadcast an unceasing stream of non-verbal signs , intended to inform others , whether they be acquaintances or more often otherwise , of the place which he or she expects to have in the undertakings which follow . |
| 21 | The idea is that every person has another person ( or sometimes a group or committee ) to whom he or she has to account for the proper discharge of responsibilities . |
| 22 | Never remove any clothes that have stuck to the skin and do not give the child anything to drink in case he or she has to go to the operating theatre . |
| 23 | What sets the true teacher apart is the ability he or she has to relate to children with thoughtfulness , concern and love . |
| 24 | Once the reader has grasped that there are different kinds of reading ( appropriate to different kinds of texts and different purposes ) , that reading must be undertaken actively and critically , and that he or she has to interact in a personal way with the text , then the reader is becoming proficient . |
| 25 | Anyone suffering from a mental handicap and who is living in a mental hospital must complete a declaration that he or she wishes to register for the right to vote . |
| 26 | It is up to the individual to decide the most appropriate arrangement and this should be informed by the range of strategies which he or she intends to use in the classroom . |
| 27 | If a fight is inevitable and we can not escape , it is irrelevant what he or she intends to do to us , or whether he or she looks capable of doing it . |
| 28 | Identical pitfalls await the student of what political scientists call the ‘ overload ’ problem in government when he or she attempts to read into the past harbingers of difficulties which subsequently became acute . |
| 29 | Alternatively an historian may select that evidence which matches the interpretation which he or she wants to put on it . |
| 30 | In the end , of course , what is to count as data is whatever materials are grist to the researcher 's mill ; whatever it is that he or she wants to work with . |