Example sentences of "where [pers pn] had been [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He waylaid Stella in the paint-frame where she had been sent to boil rabbit glue on the Bunsen burner . |
| 2 | She would be in Mountsorrel , where she had been told to leave the coach , by three . |
| 3 | She unfolded Marek 's exercise book and began reading the spidery writing where she had been forced to stop . |
| 4 | The Mozarts left England in August 1765 , travelling by way of Canterbury , to Dover , across the channel to Calais and then to The Hague where they had been invited to perform before Princess Caroline of Nassau-Weilburg . |
| 5 | He returned to Los Angeles and then caught a plane to Europe where he had been invited to show the finished article at the Venice Film Festival at which The Last Movie was voted the best picture on exhibition . |
| 6 | The minister , just back from Chicago where he had been fighting to prevent the breakdown of the talks , described the prospect of punitive tariffs as ‘ sad ’ . |
| 7 | Today 's news will come as a blow for British Agriculture minister John Gummer , who is just back from the US where he had been fighting to prevent the breakdown of the talks . |
| 8 | Today 's news will come as a blow for British Agriculture minister John Gummer , who is just back from the US where he had been fighting to prevent the breakdown of the talks . |
| 9 | And suddenly , true to the route Ursula had picked out on the map , they reached the crest and saw Maurice 's car , parked at the far end of the lay-by where he had been told to wait , maroon and solitary against the pale expanse of chalk-smeared turf . |