Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can see the range , where it is , and where I want it to be . |
| 2 | Mildred slid him carefully into her pocket and raced up the stairs to her room , where she transferred him to a small box with holes in the lid which she had prepared specially for the journey . |
| 3 | He might have been cut out of cardboard , she thought , as she led him across the hall and into the dining -room , where she introduced him to Susan . |
| 4 | It causes no pollution , either in terms of fuel consumption or noise , yet finding yourself suddenly cowering in the shadow of a huge coloured parachute at the top of a hill where you imagined yourself to be alone , bursts the illusionary balloon of solitude and remote wilderness for me . |
| 5 | Right , and you get them to something that you can deal with , because the one thing you can not deal with right , we want to think it over , it is n't matter where you take them to , right whether it 's the bathroom window , whether it 's the one in |
| 6 | You have to care for them , which means starting from where they are in life , not where you want them to be , and taking their lives and lack of belief seriously . |
| 7 | Buying direct from the charity , or a charity-run shop , is the best way to make sure the money goes where you want it to . |
| 8 | training your dog to relieve itself where you want it to . |
| 9 | It 's if it goes where you want it to that 's hard . |
| 10 | On the personal computer business , Platt said the company is ‘ gaining a lot of recognition ’ in what he called a ‘ ruthless ’ business , adding that cost-cutting had improved profitability , ‘ but it is not quite where we want it to be . ’ |
| 11 | They 've been living for the last ten years in an environment where they expect there to be a high level of occult activity in society . |
| 12 | The larvae then migrate through the tissue of the mouth ( cheeks , tongue , and pharynx ) to the stomach , where they attach themselves to the stomach lining . |
| 13 | Mr Woodcock , 47 , of Holgate , York , grabbed the weapon with one hand and it went off , blasting a wall with pellets , but he hung on , dragging the raider into the car park outside the restaurant , where he pinned him to the ground until armed police arrived . |
| 14 | He had developed a terrible memory for who he drove and where he drove them to . |
| 15 | I kissed the rose , and that night , in bed , I placed it where he desired me to . |
| 16 | I caught up with Dr Mawhinney at Deacon 's School , a local comprehensive , where he subjected himself to 45 minutes of questioning from 60 youngsters as part of an in-school mock election . |
| 17 | Venicoff it was held that when the Secretary of State was deporting a person where he deemed it to be conducive to the public good , he was acting in an executive and not in a judicial capacity . |
| 18 | He would no sooner place his arm where he wanted it to be than his upper body was wracked by a spasm . |
| 19 | There is a delightful passage where he addresses himself to the role of dreams and faces out the difficulty inherent in medieval lore which others like Chaucer resolve through ambiguity : namely , that in a situation where some dreams were held to reveal truth and others to be the products of a disordered digestive system , it is difficult to distinguish true from false . |
| 20 | On learning of this , Achym pursued his steward for three miles to Bury Down , where he did him to death at a place known as Slew Gate . |
| 21 | Mr. Rifkind did not reply to my letter although I addressed it to him personally at the House of Commons … |
| 22 | You are a young gentleman and I am sorry to say , not better than I wish you to be . |
| 23 | I 've been lucky : Scathach has returned only four years older than I expected him to be . ’ |
| 24 | was more valuable than I expected it to be ; |
| 25 | So I do n't know about anybody else but that 's cheaper than I expected it to be . |
| 26 | He said the idea of a single currency was ‘ even less realistic than I believed it to be nine months ago ’ . |
| 27 | It came out more vehemently than I meant it to . |
| 28 | I admit that I 'm as much to blame , I should have come to visit her , but I understood her mother was never off the doorstep , so I left her to it . |
| 29 | I did n't want the long journey in to work each day so I let it to Professor Wendell . |
| 30 | Although it was late and Mr Edgar was tired after his journey , Joseph insisted , so I took him to the master 's room . |