Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , Mummy , I promised to go to the common and play rounders with Ann and Ruth . ’ |
| 2 | I want to refer to the third Sessional Order , Mr. Speaker , dealing with access — the last one to which you referred . |
| 3 | and one day she said , Now then John I want to go to the other school to Mr , the schoolmaster to get a book . |
| 4 | I want to go to the fair . ’ |
| 5 | I tell you , after a long life of many escapes , many dramas which might have been tragedies , what I want and would value most is to be free to choose as much of my life as is given to me — to live it by my own lights , Mary , to do , insofar as God wills it , what I want to do to the very hilt and limit . ’ |
| 6 | I want to put to the hon. Member for Sedgefield some important and fundamental questions relating to his party 's attitude to training and I hope that he will do the House the honour of answering them . |
| 7 | ‘ I want to return to the nice friendly atmosphere we used to have at this club with Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison in charge and chairman Albert Alexander , who left everyone to get on with their job . |
| 8 | I want to retreat to the opposite end of the room . |
| 9 | Most of them used local girls , but I decided to go to the famous state-run Eros Centre in Hamburg , which I 've since heard has been closed down due to the AIDS scare . |
| 10 | ‘ I managed to crawl to the outside lavatory and I 've been there most of the time . ’ |
| 11 | I try to explain to the two silver boots [ now accompanied by the projectionist , drinking tea ] what is wrong but I can not make myself heard even out here . |
| 12 | I had to go to the next yard to fetch Jonesy . |
| 13 | I had to write to the next of kin . |
| 14 | I had to escape to the nearby wilderness of mountain and ice , to live out my days among chamois and eagle , which were being hunted as avidly as I. |
| 15 | To see The Egyptian , I had to walk to the other end of town , to the Essoldo . |
| 16 | I wish to refer to the personal statement which the Secretary of State made . |
| 17 | Of these currents , by far the most important were trade unionism and cooperation : trade unionism demands separate treatment ( Chapter 3 below ) , here I wish to turn to the cooperative movement . |
| 18 | ‘ I have to go to the old ladies ’ home , but I could do that later . |
| 19 | I wanted to go to the top people . |
| 20 | I wanted to talk to the famous pianist before his concert . |
| 21 | ‘ Do you want to go to the giving-out-food woman and say there 's three small hungry people down here ? ’ |
| 22 | You want to go to the orthopaedic . |
| 23 | ‘ My Dad would say to Donleavy , ‘ I think you want to talk to the other Les . ’ |
| 24 | Go late if you want to keep to the right hand side of the course and early if you want to use the left hand side . |
| 25 | If you want to stick to the variable rate , make sure you specify at the start of the loan . |
| 26 | She turned to wave to the approaching Marines . |
| 27 | So I said to her she said would you like to go to the Regal so I said I do n't mind . |
| 28 | Would you like to go to the old rink to do some skating ? [ drink ] |
| 29 | generated or whatever , who do you wish to pay to , and we have four erm electricity board , the gas board , the er er er credit card and the , ca n't remember what the fourth one is , you simply say I wan na pay number four how much do you wish to pay to the Royal Bank of Scotland and you say how much you wish to pay in , er in pence and it immediately says you wish to pay blah blah blah it will be done . |
| 30 | Why do you have to turn to the other side , why ca n't you have it up the middle . . |