Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is normal for me to report to the Council 's Planning Committee the end of year disease statistics and any recommendations which might be necessary in line with the management strategy . |
| 2 | Other similarities between the suicide and the anorexic seem to me to relate to the individual 's reactions to an impinging world . |
| 3 | Yeah well it 's rare for me to come to the doctor 's but last three week I 've been here like every week , kind of thing . |
| 4 | I bring to the Minister 's attention the correspondence between West Lothian district council and the hon. Member for Edinburgh , West ( Lord James Douglas-Hamilton ) , the Under-Secretary of State , on precisely the difficulties that a council , whether district or regional , has on the whole issue of competitive tendering . |
| 5 | I fled to the Students ' Union where , within a very few days , I found myself co-opted onto the Students ' Council . |
| 6 | Er but , Collieries as they became , they did n't acc That was Lancaster , they did n't accept er the old unions , so they erm they belonged Both I ca n't on Friday night I used to the Methodist 's chapel to pay the old union subscription , and to the West to pay 's . |
| 7 | I referred to the Government 's record on job creation . |
| 8 | So , I turned to the devil 's picking method — free-arm — and it sounds fine . |
| 9 | I retreated to the men 's room and took the film out of the binoculars-camera , and wrote a short note to go with it . |
| 10 | I walked to the water 's edge where a coconut husk trembled in the backwash of the lagoon 's tiny waves . |
| 11 | When I returned to the laibon 's village with the paperwork , he was looking out towards Ol Doinyo Lengai waiting for the sound and the dust and the cries of his cattle coming back . |
| 12 | But the bees not only knew the voice of their owner but also his particular smell : one bee-keeper told the writer : ‘ Whenever I go to the barber 's I 've always to tell him : ‘ Nothing on , thank you . ’ |
| 13 | Most nights I go to the miners ' welfare or a pub , or a club . |
| 14 | ee , cos the pain is too strong aye well I go to the doctor 's on Monday er a , and so I 'll not be going to our Ann 's this |
| 15 | I went to the King 's Carol Service . " |
| 16 | I did n't advertise for a partner but I went to the single 's and divorcee club and met my second husband and its magic the second time around . |
| 17 | Last time I went to the hairdresser 's I was so crippled with period pains I drank three instant g & t's on the bus . |
| 18 | In the autumn of 1959 I was eleven , and I went to the girls ' grammar school down the road . |
| 19 | On one particular occasion , when I left the force , I went to the Magistrate 's Clerk 's Department . |
| 20 | When I came back , I went to the children 's room , to see if they needed me , and I listened for a moment at their door . |
| 21 | So off I went to the doctor 's , six o'clock , and he examined me shoulder . |
| 22 | I took I went to the doctor 's and he gave me medicinal duty . |
| 23 | Towards evening I went to the doctor 's house to wait for him . |
| 24 | Then I went to the carers ' meeting [ at the day centre ] and there was somebody there from CAB and they said ‘ You should have been getting it ages ago ’ . |
| 25 | I listened to the Minister 's words with interest . |
| 26 | I was seven and I was I went to a neighbour 's house and as it happened I was looking through the blooming window when the funeral went past so I was no better off you know . |
| 27 | Some churches are happy to scatter the ashes in the graveyard or bury them according to the family 's wishes . |
| 28 | In a because sentence , the reason is expressed by using a phrase which refers to the agent 's desire or aim ( e.g. , wanted to ) , whereas in a so sentence the reason is expressed by using a modal construction ( e.g. , would ) , which refers to the predicted result of the action . |
| 29 | He opened the door which led to the secretary 's annex . |
| 30 | Reference has already been made to the examination by the Sumner Committee of the 1905 Hague Convention , and the reasoning which led to the Committee 's recommendation that the United Kingdom should not accede to that Convention but proceed rather by way of bilateral treaties . |