Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] to [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you want to go to the Pete 's house ? |
| 2 | I tried to go to the ladies ' room . |
| 3 | A friend who tried to go to the man 's aid had to be held back . |
| 4 | Sally tried to talk to the boy 's mother , but she dismissed it all as harmless pranks . |
| 5 | One simply has to refer to the ILEA 's language census of 1987 which traced 172 languages spoken by children at home . |
| 6 | ‘ I shall need to speak to the Ship 's Captain , the Rais , ’ said Mahmoud . |
| 7 | The politicians do n't want to listen to the nation 's voice because they believe they know best and are scared that the people will vote against . |
| 8 | From the age of 16 , when he left Alleynes School in a fit of pique after refusing to submit to a prefect 's caning , he resolutely bucked the system . |
| 9 | Further , it identified three main ways in which coordinators could expect to contribute to the school 's teaching programme : |
| 10 | Four copies of application including full curriculum vitae and the names of three referees , together with details of how you would expect to contribute to the Institute 's continuing and successful development should be sent by 6th March , 1991 to the Personnel Office , University of York , Heslington , York YO DD . |
| 11 | In hospital , the parents can be enabled to spend as much time as they wish with their sick child , and efforts can be made to keep to the child 's familiar routines ( Rutter , 1979b ) . |
| 12 | Les Halles had not , however , been built to add to the city 's entertainments ; they had a severely practical purpose in which light , air , and water for cleanliness were the key elements , plus , of course , ease of access . |
| 13 | Sean had no where to go because he was not going to go to a friend 's house as he was not ready to face up to people he knew . |
| 14 | In talk directed towards specific participants , such as Brenda 's father and her brother , Brenda tends to accommodate to the addressee 's preferred variety . |
| 15 | Towards the end of 1950 the editor of The Manchester Guardian , as then was , asked Harry Griffin whether he would like to contribute to the paper 's ‘ Country Diary ’ about once a fortnight . |
| 16 | There is no clear evidence that the MITR has helped to contribute to the nation 's stock of housing . |
| 17 | He makes some valid points that I should like to bring to the House 's attention . |
| 18 | Stewart is aiming to return to the winner 's enclosure after a blank spell following his success over Scott Simpson in a play-off for the 1991 US Open . |
| 19 | If you 're not better by sort of Tuesday , Wednesday we 'll have to go to the doctor 's get you some antibiotics . |
| 20 | ‘ What on earth did you have to go to the chemist 's for ? ’ |
| 21 | And the others do n't care either , only Hoomey , because of his Bones having to go to the knacker 's . ’ |
| 22 | I decided to write to the Grocers ' Company about the matter . |
| 23 | There are signs that the council of Lloyd 's is starting to listen to the names ' cries . |
| 24 | The Quebec government ordered the Army to dismantle the barricades on Aug. 27 , having refused to accede to the Mohawks ' additional demands that they be treated as a sovereign nation during negotiations and be granted immunity from prosecution . |
| 25 | In Roses — we find man , with his aspirations , his joys , his suffering and bitterness , his hopes and encounters , but everything appears fixed , fatal , everything seems to belong to the man 's destiny . |
| 26 | She will respond intuitively as she senses the class 's needs , or , rather , she may have to respond to the class 's wants . |
| 27 | England need only unanimous support from the Test countries to win the World Cup vote without having to refer to the ICC 's associate members . |
| 28 | I decided that I would have to get to the Butcher 's office first or at least early on in the queue so that I would be barefoot for as short a time as possible . |
| 29 | When Mark and his cohorts eventually emerged from the dark recesses of the studio and delivered the Talk Talk album that they 'd always wanted to make to the band 's record label , more than one EMI executive jaw hit the lush EMI executive suite carpet . |
| 30 | In a referendum on April 22 inhabitants of Karl-Marx-Stadt voted to revert to the town 's former name of Chemnitz . |