Example sentences of "where [pers pn] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In New York , where I went to school , some extremely busy and stressed people use the streets , but New Yorkers understand that there is a code of ethics governing running . |
| 2 | You may find that the bride says , ‘ Do n't bother to say anything about where I went to school and where we met . |
| 3 | Bradley who has travelled the world with his accordion sets the pace in more than 36 Irish tunes including Village Where I Went to School and The Galway Shawl . |
| 4 | I shall be amused if you go there , as that is where I went to school ( Christ 's Hospital ) . |
| 5 | And that 's where I came to : sitting on a pew in the choirstalls of this dark and deserted Cathedral , sucking my poorly thumb … |
| 6 | So when the Sergeant-Major asked me where I hoped to be posted eventually , I told him the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes ; this did n't surprise him as most British recruits said the same thing . |
| 7 | I 've really had to work hard to get where I got to and when I fight a black guy , I know that he 's had to do the same thing , I think : ‘ Well , he 's had it as hard as me ’ and little zest goes out of your punching , I just want to beat him on points . |
| 8 | Drove back to Naples , where I got to bed about 11pm . " |
| 9 | At the end of this meeting I was where I wanted to be . |
| 10 | I took an early morning train from Paris to Toulouse , where I changed to a small local train for Ax-les-Thermes . |
| 11 | In South Island where I happened to be , validation is available only from the Canterbury Aero Club at Christchurch Airport . |
| 12 | Cork is where I happened to be born . |
| 13 | I then er , we then broke away and went up to the er , I suppose it 's the , I do n't know what part of the , but it 's the Dales , that 's where I moved to then and then to because my dad could n't , getting on in years , he could n't take the hills up and then from I got married and we moved into this address here and then that was the day after war was declared that I got married . |
| 14 | That house was one of the few places where I preferred to be different from the others . |
| 15 | I swing where I used to flamenco . |
| 16 | Our nightgowns lay on the floor where you fell to your knees |
| 17 | ‘ Not one of Rainbow 's cells , ’ I persist , ‘ remembers the cold slap of the water in the stream where you and Gittel swam , or the taste of the berries from the bush near your hut , or the names of the birds in the woods where you screamed to the old native gods . |
| 18 | Is that where you got to now ? |
| 19 | I 've been in digs where you went to bed and you 've had to put your top coat on the bed . |
| 20 | It has to do with the way you speak , the way you erm where you went to school , what connections you have , what values you hold . |
| 21 | Now orders came from the , and also we had orders for th , e the falling target in the you know , of a , a rifle range where you had to er put up the frames you know with a target on it and er we made a lot of these during the First World War . |
| 22 | Wiping breath from the window , she peered out at the landmarks , all so distant from the place where she longed to be . |
| 23 | About the only decent argument I 've heard on this , I have to say that because it was my daughter who advanced it , about the only decent argument I have heard is the one about badger baiting where she said to me but badger baiting is not allowed on your land and that is the point precisely that Mr made , it is not allowed because that is the law of the land and that is where decisions about the permission or otherwise of fox hunting should be made . |
| 24 | When she opened them again , she was where she expected to be . |
| 25 | We had met Ms Keir at the offices of MVTR , where she seemed to be having trouble with her tape machines . |
| 26 | Measuring applause does not reveal that the movie was memorable for the woman in the third row because the building on screen reminded her of where she went to school and all those childhood memories came flooding back intercut with the film while the auditorium gently shook as an underground train passed beneath and cigarette ash fluttered down from the balcony in the projector beam . |
| 27 | Another survivor , who was brought up in Leith , where she went to Bell 's School , owed her introduction to printing to a neighbour " a Miss Taylor " , who told her widowed mother that young Jenny would be " just suited " to the printing trade , and herself took her up for interview . |
| 28 | Missed that and er oh I forget where she went to . |
| 29 | She knew the direction was right , it would stop at Bond Street where she wanted to be . |
| 30 | All the while she had been talking , she had been moving little by little to one side , her movements casual , and when she was exactly where she wanted to be she reached out and grasped , lifted , and swiftly jabbed the pitchfork that had been standing in the corner of the stall . |