Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Once demobbed he planned to go to New Zealand and start a new life . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ One of them asked to go to the lavatory . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was noticeable that Celia no longer asked to go to the sea although , by that time , the weather had changed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | During a hunger strike she asked to go to Confession . |
| 11 | He was given a scan at the hospital 's radiology department and once his treatment was finished he asked to go to the toilet . |
| 12 | ‘ First he asked to go to the toilet . |
| 13 | R.A. Hamilton asked that more mature trees be obtained and the chairman agreed to attend to this matter . |
| 14 | ‘ Only if you 'ad to go to work , ’ said Dolly . |
| 15 | Yes , I , I was in er , I 'm not sure , I , I think I was in the top class in the junior school and er , without boasting , I was a good scholar and I eventually passed to go to the Q M and me dad could n't afford to let me go . |
| 16 | I was in there nearly three years , or two and a half years anyway and , of course , I when I passed to go to the Q M of course , I , I used to do the Headmaster 's and all that but they , they could n't teach me any more because you , you can only have the same lessons as them that have been taught you know . |
| 17 | Paul tells him about how John never got to go to Disneyland when he was little , and all his life John 's wanted to go , and Paul 's decided that the one thing they have to do for him is to take him to Disneyland . |
| 18 | Since then my ( now ex- ) girlfriend was really good mates with the two of them cos she was in their year ( Yes I know I 'm a paedophile ) so that was how I got to go to their 18th birthday parties and Al 's leaving do . |
| 19 | You say you got to go to that golf club or you 've got to go to that school . |
| 20 | Hannah got to go to Victoria hospital on twenty second of January . |
| 21 | Each day held a different challenge or , as one long-standing employee put it : ‘ We all lived to go to work . ’ |
| 22 | Oh aye he applied to go to the Gulf . |
| 23 | But they also wanted a lift into town and we agreed to go to the Hard Rock Café in Honolulu together that night . |
| 24 | He agreed to go to Rome himself to try to obtain an acceptable solution . |
| 25 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 26 | Mama made me promise to feed you before she agreed to go to bed . |
| 27 | Dexter agreed to go to the hospital and find out what he could . |
| 28 | She finally agreed to go to the most expensive Chinese restaurant in town with him . |
| 29 | ‘ Get on with it , Will , ’ she said , ‘ I 'll be down in a minute , got to see to my mam . ’ |
| 30 | The council agreed to object to the pylons , but said if they had to have a preferred option , it would be for the western , or red route . |