Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't want a bit to go to America now . |
| 2 | This gives the Board an opportunity to report to shareholders and to obtain their approval for resolutions that are voted upon at the Meeting . |
| 3 | The deadlock was broken when a government-appointed conciliator persuaded the Peugeot chairman to agree to talks as soon as a 19-day sit-in at the Mulhouse plant was ended . |
| 4 | Described in press coverage of the Angry Brigade trial as a ‘ compulsive joiner of revolutionary movements throughout Europe ’ , he dropped out of his Latin American studies course to go to Paris during the student riots of May 1968 . |
| 5 | Mr Cubbage was like a cat on hot bricks , he was most distraught at Coleen 's decision to go to England , and he bombarded her with letters and flowers ; he could not wait for her return and for her to say the one word that would make her his wife . |
| 6 | ‘ It would be hard on people like Peter Winterbottom but they have taken a decision to go to London and there 's no room any more for sentiment . ’ |
| 7 | The decision to go to Ireland — made on labour , grant aid and broader economic grounds — was also made before the actual location was selected . |
| 8 | It meant that the Test career of a man aged just 31 , who still had a great deal to offer his country , was almost over ; true , it would be terminated by his own decision to go to South Africa , but this came about only because of his disillusion with cricket 's establishment . |
| 9 | It also finished all the shilly-shallying and finally triggered off my firm decision to go to Bristol . |
| 10 | The only reason I was here was because Joyce , who was to spend the first two days at the Centre with me , had continuously reminded me on the journey that the decision to go to Bristol had been mine and mine alone . |
| 11 | It all began with the totally illogical decision to go to Cloggy when one of the only two cars in the party was going to Gogarth and the other to The Pass . |
| 12 | Secondly , the moment the decision to go to war was taken in Washington in November , the UN really faded out of the picture . |
| 13 | He also expressed " deep remorse over the unbearable suffering and sorrow Japan inflicted " by its " reckless " decision to go to war with the USA . |
| 14 | This was not quite a final decision to go to war , but when allied ships under Admiral Codrington moved into Navarino Bay on the south-western edge of the Peloponnese in October 1827 and , without having set out to do so , destroyed the fleet of the Sultan 's Egyptian forces , war became inevitable . |
| 15 | Mr Brandreth met with Mr Hanley and told him in no uncertain terms that the people of Chester were far from happy with the decision to go to Glasgow . |
| 16 | His decision to retire to Alderney with his third wife , Pat , was never easy . |
| 17 | After all , there was no necessity to go to Benediction on a Saturday evening . |
| 18 | It only takes half an hour to go to Austria does n't it ? |
| 19 | However , total enrolment fell between 1980 and 1986 , suggesting that girls have had more opportunity to go to school under war conditions than boys . |
| 20 | A few days later all the officer cadets were given the opportunity to go to Wolferton station to see the old King 's coffin on its way to London . |
| 21 | However , that does have its positive side — it gives my staff the opportunity to go to meetings and take responsibility when I 'm not there , so it can be used in quite a developmental way . |
| 22 | If there were no need for sheltered workshops because disabled people were fully integrated into ‘ normal ’ society , then it would be a gain ; but if , as I suspect , in these hard times it is impossible for many severely disabled people to get a job of any sort , surely the lack of opportunity to go to work is a loss — even if the kind of work they do is far from ideal . |
| 23 | All staff in these offices were offered the opportunity to go to Bristol to work at the head office . |
| 24 | " If we disobey him I may lose the opportunity to go to Canton , " he said shortly . |
| 25 | In recent months I have had the opportunity to go to Kashmir by arrangement with both the Pakistani Government and the Indian Government , and I have seen the profound suffering among Kashmiris of both religions — Hindu and Muslim . |
| 26 | He just wants money to go to France . |
| 27 | It was he who lent Hardy the money to go to Paris : he who decided to take Hardy 's hopeful acting career under his wing and get him an audition with ‘ my father ’ down at the Cardiff studios , where Philip 's radio play gave him an entree . |
| 28 | For a time he believed he had a vocation to be a priest himself but he reverted to a previous plan to save sufficient money to go to university . |
| 29 | He had enough money to go to Cairo and he was off next week . |
| 30 | The manuscript had just been discovered in the uncatalogued recesses of the British Museum ; it was exciting work , said the doctor , but difficult : the manuscript was badly damaged and as he had not the money to go to London he was having to work from a smudged xerox copy . |