Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernard 's father had been a builder , his two elder brothers were house painters ; his older sister was married to a carpenter : another just left nursing to be married ; his two younger sisters were still at school and planned to go to college against their mother 's wishes . |
| 2 | During a hunger strike she asked to go to Confession . |
| 3 | A spokesman said while they accept they 've lost the copyright battle , they still intend to go to court again in an attempt to get the damages reduced . |
| 4 | ‘ Only if you 'ad to go to work , ’ said Dolly . |
| 5 | It started on April 19th , a Sunday ; and the next day I did n't want to go to school . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't want to go to school , Mammy . |
| 7 | ‘ Mum , I really do n't want to go to school today , ’ he wailed . |
| 8 | Perhaps I would n't like to stay there very long , because , as I said , I might want to go to school again . |
| 9 | And knitting needles that to my little fingers were like rolling pins you know and they were long and they got under my arms and I always used to have a tummy ache on knitting day cos I did n't want to go to school . |
| 10 | Sometimes she does n't want to go to school at all . ’ |
| 11 | Alice said , ‘ I do n't want to go to school today . |
| 12 | I 'll tell you something I do n't want to go to school . |
| 13 | I must admit that I do not always want to go to work but once I am there I nearly always have a really good time . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't want to go to sleep . ’ |
| 15 | are you a tired baby , did you want to go to sleep ? |
| 16 | My erm , when I was little , I used to have this reoccuring dream , and it was really , really scary , and I just , I used to get really scared , I did n't want to go to sleep , in case I had this reoccuring dream , and what it was , was erm , I do n't know , I , I think I did n't like swimming when I was little , so that might , what sparked it off , and I could n't swim for ages |
| 17 | I 'm only here under duress because I did n't want to go to court over this nonsense . |
| 18 | If he did n't want to go to court for a very minor offence , then you could caution him . |
| 19 | But we still got the threat : I 'd be summonsed , and no way did I want to go to court . |
| 20 | ‘ But why do n't you want to go to Gran 's ? ’ |
| 21 | ( Who 'd want to go to bed with roses anyway , what a mad idea ! ) ’ |
| 22 | No one who has heard a 3-year-old , lately able to utter only single words , saying things like ‘ The difficulty with me is , I do n't want to go to bed ’ , or ‘ it looks to me as if my brother has been at it ’ can fail to toy with a Chomskian or Cartesian notion of innate ideas , the deep structures of language being in us from before birth . |
| 23 | I did n't want to go to bed , because I did n't want to miss anything . |
| 24 | ‘ You do n't want to go to bed with me ? ’ |
| 25 | But I do n't want to go to bed with you . |
| 26 | When I was younger they used to say if I ever did want to go to bed with somebody to ask to go on the Pill . |
| 27 | I do n't want to go to bed with you , I 'm speaking about the situation . |
| 28 | I do n't want to go to bed . |
| 29 | The trouble is , when I do n't want to go to bed with her ( and it does happen ) , I do n't want to go to bed with her . |
| 30 | The trouble is , when I do n't want to go to bed with her ( and it does happen ) , I do n't want to go to bed with her . |