Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I managed to crawl to the outside lavatory and I 've been there most of the time . ’ |
| 4 | I had to go to the next yard to fetch Jonesy . |
| 5 | I had to write to the next of kin . |
| 6 | 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. |
| 7 | To see The Egyptian , I had to walk to the other end of town , to the Essoldo . |
| 8 | I wanted to go to the top people . |
| 9 | I wanted to talk to the famous pianist before his concert . |
| 10 | She turned to wave to the approaching Marines . |
| 11 | Lan , for her part , hoped fervently that her innocence would be self-evident , and as she watched her prostrate grandfather 's lips moving soundlessly she began to phrase in her own mind the plea for leniency she intended to submit to the ancestral spirit . |
| 12 | But they also wanted a lift into town and we agreed to go to the Hard Rock Café in Honolulu together that night . |
| 13 | I agreed and we arranged to go to the second house . |
| 14 | And then we started to get to the big stuff . |
| 15 | The next day we had to report to the huge , ugly , frightening , hideous abattoir man who , in case you did n't know , lives , actually lives three streets away from us ! |
| 16 | It was a good ten minutes later when they seemed to come to the last of The Courts , for the houses dropped down to two-storey , then one-storey ; and then they were confronted by an iron open-work gate set in a brick wall all of seven feet high . |
| 17 | Nick and she , they were proportioned to each other , they seemed to belong to the same tribe . |
| 18 | They vowed to fight to the bitter end to stop it . |
| 19 | Then yet more came and brought with them great Stones which one day they started to take to the very centre place of Callanish itself . |
| 20 | On the sixth day , with the water supply exhausted and no hope of a patrol arriving , they decided to walk to the nearest British lines which they thought were 200 miles to the east . |
| 21 | They said me and him had to go to the social security the next morning , and if he did n't he 'd be picked up . |
| 22 | Their lower status is shown in the customary services and goods they had to supply to the main caput — services including building and maintaining the lord 's hall , bower , and possible defences , and goods rendered including lambs , wool , cattle and honey . |
| 23 | Each sect accused the other of wishing to observe the prescribed religious festivals at the wrong times , although in practice they had to keep to the same dates . |
| 24 | In the Gold Coast the last sentiment was potentially practical politics , for mass politicisation had begun among two important sections of the people of the coast , the cocoa farmers and the ex-servicemen : indeed , the cocoa farmers had first flexed their muscles in 1937 when they refused to sell to the European firms who bought 98 per cent of their crop ( fixing the market ) and also imposed a boycott on European imports . |
| 25 | His ‘ guys ’ in Lebanon , the Asmar network , were not to be risked on routine intelligence for the DEA , and Coleman had no other contacts there that he cared to expose to the Syrian-backed heroin cartel in the Bekaa Valley . |
| 26 | He agreed to write to the Peruvian Government . |
| 27 | Although he promised to listen to the Welsh , he also rebuked those who had criticised his appointment , as a Tory Right-winger and MP for Wokingham . |
| 28 | And he began to connect to the nascent counter-culture , visiting Pete Brown 's home in Oppidans Road , Primrose Hill . |
| 29 | Now that the death looked painful , now that he could see traces of a struggle , he began , in a kind of panic , to say things in his head , he began to talk to the dead man . |
| 30 | Ideologically , he would not shift his ground ; politically , however , he began to tack to the prevailing wind , giving his regime an appearance of popular , constitutional legitimacy , and gradually taking over and presenting as his own the idea of reinstating the monarchy . |