Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we told them to point to the empty box they would do so ; but would revert to pointing to the baited box again on the next trial . |
| 2 | Episcopal persecution , however , drove them to flee to the relative anonymity of London at the end of the 1620s . |
| 3 | In the Australian bush in the early 1930s , my mother-to-be was the daughter of a locomotive driver who watched her like a hawk and forbade her to go to the crasser ends of town . |
| 4 | Ludens told her to go to the British Museum and the National Gallery , which she did , though declining his offer to ‘ show her round ’ . |
| 5 | In the period broadly spanning the years 1948 to 1975 , central governments of both parties gradually extended local authorities ' social service powers , or encouraged them to use to the full powers they had already been given — achieving secondary education for all , creating a national pattern of further education , developing services for the elderly , sustaining a substantial housing programme . |
| 6 | He urged him to go to the local hotel , only twelve miles in the wrong direction . |
| 7 | Her parents and sisters were sympathetic but expected her to conform to the existing status quo . |
| 8 | Her firm stance enabled her to speak to the Russian government with greater authority also . |
| 9 | They were to suffer still further as their captors immediately stripped them of everything , even their boots , and forced them to march to the Turkish camp . |
| 10 | In many cases , the parents of the brighter children wished them to go to the secondary school in Jarrow , an overcrowded building housing about 400 pupils in which good scholarship results were achieved , but there were serious difficulties facing their children : |