Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parallels , such as they are , between 511 and 561 , together with the arrangements made to cope with the death of Charibert , lend a spurious uniformity to the divisions of the Merovingian kingdom , but one which is , at first sight , supported by the events of 595 . |
| 2 | But I got to carry on walking , cos I do n't have no card . |
| 3 | However , this morning Beth Christie was brighter than usual ; she planned to shop for the dinner party she was holding later in the week . |
| 4 | David agreed to liaise with Liz Templeton and to organise the programme for the day . |
| 5 | As it became apparent that considerable variations in training were to be found , the ( now ) British Library Research and Development Group for Research into Public Libraries felt that more information was needed about current practice , and in September 1982 , British Library Research and Development and The Library Association agreed to liaise on the development of an exploratory survey . |
| 6 | When Elizabeth returned to England she talked of how she planned to go to South Africa to see if her future was there with Mr Cronje . |
| 7 | Once demobbed he planned to go to New Zealand and start a new life . |
| 8 | Bernard 's father had been a builder , his two elder brothers were house painters ; his older sister was married to a carpenter : another just left nursing to be married ; his two younger sisters were still at school and planned to go to college against their mother 's wishes . |
| 9 | Kyffin Williams never intended to be a painter , he planned to go into the army but was rejected on medical grounds . |
| 10 | They had never been on Scottish waters before and planned to go round Skye . |
| 11 | The team played better but failed to profit from their many spells of domination . |
| 12 | The team played better but failed to profit from their many spells of domination . |
| 13 | Along with a Chinese freelance photographer , Cavell had called for her that morning and whisked her round some of Taipei 's famous landmarks , the all-marble Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial , a colourful Buddhist temple , and the Grand Hotel with its magnificent Chinese architecture , pausing only long enough at each for the young man to take the photos that would help introduce Maria to the Taipei public , before escorting her back to the apartment and approving the outfit she planned to wear to the dinner the radio station was hosting for the rest of the local media that night . |
| 14 | ‘ One of them asked to go to the lavatory . |
| 15 | Mr Waite , who was freed last November after five years in Lebanon , says on the ABC programme 20/20 : ‘ One day I asked to go to the bathroom . |
| 16 | It was noticeable that Celia no longer asked to go to the sea although , by that time , the weather had changed . |
| 17 | I chose a time when I knew the Trunchbull was out of the way teaching the sixth-formers , and I put up my hand and asked to go to the bogs . |
| 18 | He asked to go to the most demanding area and ended up in Smallhealth and Sparkbrook with a case load of up to 60 children . |
| 19 | During a hunger strike she asked to go to Confession . |
| 20 | He was given a scan at the hospital 's radiology department and once his treatment was finished he asked to go to the toilet . |
| 21 | ‘ First he asked to go to the toilet . |
| 22 | Srnicek , in for injured Tommy Wright , asked to go on the list last season because his family were desperately unhappy in England . |
| 23 | Any road , erm when I went back to see her she said of the ones who came and asked to go on it , we 've accepted you , but no more . |
| 24 | Finnan was shouting commands and swords were still flashing at the beasts who fought to clamber on board . |
| 25 | R.A. Hamilton asked that more mature trees be obtained and the chairman agreed to attend to this matter . |
| 26 | The group invited the local Elder of the Jehovah 's Witnesses , who was wary at first , but then agreed to attend as an ‘ observer ’ . |
| 27 | The Barbarians , led by Scotland 's Gavin Hastings , failed to cope with the surface water and were beaten 16–8 by South Korea , who became the first Asian side to reach the semi-finals . |
| 28 | The Scots have four decent locks , although they failed to cope with John Eales ; but remember he is the best lock in the world . |
| 29 | During her trials off the west coast of Scotland in 1989 , Upholder lost power when her propulsion control system failed to cope with a sudden switch from full ahead to full astern power , a problem which contributed seven months to the three-year delay in her becoming operational . |
| 30 | There was to be no pay , and yet any private who failed to attend for two hours , at least twice a week , for ‘ The Exercise ’ when the troops would ‘ … go through the Evolutions together ’ would be fined two shillings . |