Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Valley Hotel is ideally situated to appeal to the overnight tourist , mid-week and weekend break markets . |
| 2 | From that decision , leave was given to appeal to the House of Lords . |
| 3 | Along with a Chinese freelance photographer , Cavell had called for her that morning and whisked her round some of Taipei 's famous landmarks , the all-marble Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial , a colourful Buddhist temple , and the Grand Hotel with its magnificent Chinese architecture , pausing only long enough at each for the young man to take the photos that would help introduce Maria to the Taipei public , before escorting her back to the apartment and approving the outfit she planned to wear to the dinner the radio station was hosting for the rest of the local media that night . |
| 4 | Despite this , we still tend to cling to the traditional . |
| 5 | ‘ One of them asked to go to the lavatory . |
| 6 | Mr Waite , who was freed last November after five years in Lebanon , says on the ABC programme 20/20 : ‘ One day I asked to go to the bathroom . |
| 7 | It was noticeable that Celia no longer asked to go to the sea although , by that time , the weather had changed . |
| 8 | I chose a time when I knew the Trunchbull was out of the way teaching the sixth-formers , and I put up my hand and asked to go to the bogs . |
| 9 | He asked to go to the most demanding area and ended up in Smallhealth and Sparkbrook with a case load of up to 60 children . |
| 10 | He was given a scan at the hospital 's radiology department and once his treatment was finished he asked to go to the toilet . |
| 11 | ‘ First he asked to go to the toilet . |
| 12 | For lunch I intend to go to the Strawberry Duck pub , Entwhistle , Saturday afternoon is free for shopping in Manchester 's Arndale Centre or whatever and for the evening meal the plan is to go to the new Indian take-away which has opened near Castle Irwell — the ‘ Tandoori Cottage ’ . |
| 13 | Yes , I , I was in er , I 'm not sure , I , I think I was in the top class in the junior school and er , without boasting , I was a good scholar and I eventually passed to go to the Q M and me dad could n't afford to let me go . |
| 14 | I was in there nearly three years , or two and a half years anyway and , of course , I when I passed to go to the Q M of course , I , I used to do the Headmaster 's and all that but they , they could n't teach me any more because you , you can only have the same lessons as them that have been taught you know . |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't you want to go to the wedding ? ’ |
| 16 | This usually takes the form of a burning pain when you pass water and the feeling you want to go to the toilet more often than usual . |
| 17 | You have to decide , right now , do you want to go to the hospital or stay here ? ’ |
| 18 | You do n't want to go to the police , because you 're afraid they 'll simply get involved in another siege — if you can make them believe you in time , which seems doubtful . |
| 19 | Fiona returned , pulling on a fluffy white wrap over her red silk dress , saying she really did n't want to go to the dinner and being persuaded again by her husband . |
| 20 | ‘ You 'd have to signal in advance which issues you regarded as a matter of confidence — for instance , the Tories might have a crack at coal privatisation but might not want to go to the country on it if they failed . ’ |
| 21 | She did not want to go to the beach because the beach meant the bikini , and spending all afternoon sucking in her gut and wondering why her skin went straight from fishbelly white to lobster red while all the other kids had golden tans . |
| 22 | We did n't have many chips , but that was because my mother did n't want to go to the bother of making them , nor did she like the mess that boiling , spluttering fat can make . |
| 23 | My Better Half 's always maintained , and I agree with him , if they do n't want to go to the Church then we wo n't force them . |
| 24 | This usually takes the form of a burning pain when you pass water and the feeling you want to go to the toilet more often than usual . |
| 25 | KENNETH CLARK SAID at the time of World War Two , ‘ The average artist will want to go to the Front not simply out of curiosity or bravado , but because he may there discover some of that emotional stimulus on a grand scale which is inevitably lacking from his everyday life . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Do you want to go to the giving-out-food woman and say there 's three small hungry people down here ? ’ |
| 27 | KENNETH CLARK SAID at the time of World War Two , ‘ The average artist will want to go to the Front not simply out of curiosity or bravado , but because he may there discover some of that emotional stimulus on a grand scale which is inevitably lacking from his everyday life . ’ |
| 28 | If you do n't want to go to the expense of buying them , check out the travel section at your local library . |
| 29 | But I 'm not really planning to be a hermit ; my brother 's coming over soon , and I know he 'll want to go to the islands , so we 'll be in touch . |
| 30 | If you do n't want to go to the expense and trouble of covering your walls with natural fabrics like hessian , grasscloth , or cork , there 's a lot of imitations available . |