Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One of them asked to go to the lavatory . |
| 2 | And er erm they saw me on the you know television programme and they asked me to go go to the school and |
| 3 | Thus , sometimes a seller will find himself still in possession of goods after the ownership in them has passed to the buyer . |
| 4 | Clearly , as far as our lending bank is concerned , nothing has happened to the money supply . |
| 5 | Until he begins to write cheques , i.e. to spend , nothing has happened to the balance sheet . |
| 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 | I asked to speak to the person in charge of the station . |
| 8 | I mean I read according to the paper this morning young people have got to have a |
| 9 | later than that , it 's er I mean to go to the crematorium at quarter past eleven , we would n't be back here before twelve o'clock . |
| 10 | ‘ I mean to get to the bottom of it , ’ said Lydia , only without much conviction . |
| 11 | For lunch I intend to go to the Strawberry Duck pub , Entwhistle , Saturday afternoon is free for shopping in Manchester 's Arndale Centre or whatever and for the evening meal the plan is to go to the new Indian take-away which has opened near Castle Irwell — the ‘ Tandoori Cottage ’ . |
| 12 | Mrs Keating shouted , ‘ I think you 'd better know , I intend to write to the school about this . ’ |
| 13 | Judge Harry Walker , who gave Jim bail yesterday , told him : ‘ I intend to get to the bottom of this . ’ |
| 14 | Half awake , I lay listening to the silence . |
| 15 | They all went to the local comprehensive — which I wanted to but , because I passed my 11-plus I got sent to the grammar instead . |
| 16 | I 'm the only one who 's ever been mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nine , taking numbers on polling stations and so on , and so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon . |
| 17 | And so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon . |
| 18 | But I got promoted to the road roller and then into the power station so |
| 19 | I hate going to the cinema . |
| 20 | I shimmied shivering to the bedsit , slotted another shilling in the gas fire and reached for the knob on the third drawer of the tallboy . |
| 21 | I want to listen to the phone in . |
| 22 | I want to listen to the phone in . |
| 23 | I want to refer to the relationship between tobacco and sport , and particularly the role of sponsorship . |
| 24 | ‘ Please , sir , ’ he said , ‘ I want to go to the toilet . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I want to go to the zoo . ’ |
| 26 | Put the driver on I want to talk to the driver . |
| 27 | I want to return to the question of an armed intervention force in Yugoslavia under the aegis of the United Nations Security Council . |
| 28 | I plead guilty , partly , but in my defence I want to return to the point I signalled earlier , that a biographical approach has more political justification if the project being undertaken is one concerned with the cultural history of a marginalized group . |
| 29 | ‘ And I want to come to the wedding , whenever it is . ’ |
| 30 | It 's not something I want broadcast to the world . ’ |