Example sentences of "[vb past] go to the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ One of them asked to go to the lavatory .
2 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 .
3 It was noticeable that Celia no longer asked to go to the sea although , by that time , the weather had changed .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 He was given a scan at the hospital 's radiology department and once his treatment was finished he asked to go to the toilet .
7 ‘ First he asked to go to the toilet .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Oh aye he applied to go to the Gulf .
11 But they also wanted a lift into town and we agreed to go to the Hard Rock Café in Honolulu together that night .
12 Dexter agreed to go to the hospital and find out what he could .
13 She finally agreed to go to the most expensive Chinese restaurant in town with him .
14 Ajdabiyans expected to go to the polls in the winter of 1978–9 , and in anticipation their political activists had drawn up two lists of candidates for each of the fifteen popular committees .
15 A friend who tried to go to the man 's aid had to be held back .
16 I tried to go to the ladies ' room .
17 ‘ Oh , Mummy , I promised to go to the common and play rounders with Ann and Ruth . ’
18 Bemused by what was happening he moved to go to the bathroom , and was immediately grabbed by two police officers .
19 Actually there 's Paul , the guy who 'd given me a lift to the concert and , and he mentioned going to the , the film I saw , erm but I knew he was going to the pub , he always goes to the pub afterwards .
20 That 's why I stopped going to the Olde Tyme Dancing with him .
21 Scottish scholars stopped going to the English universities ; the veneer of English influence on Scottish law and judicial practice was torn away .
22 Th the problem with suggestion therapy whether it be hypnosis or group therapy is it does n't tend to last in the longer run after the person stopped going to the group or they have n't seen the the er hypnotist for reinforcement .
23 But there 's quite a few stopped going to the club with women not being well and their legs bad and
24 I was thankful when the time came to go to the City Division H.Q.
25 The initial interest of political researchers into the question of what to do with the regions came about , it must be said , not out of concern for neglected political interests in the periphery ( what Tarrow refers to as ‘ regionalism as peripheral defence ’ ) but because of a trend thought to have been observed in modern politics which seemed to go to the heart of the functioning of modern political systems .
26 So I 'd to go to the washing racks for fourpence a day .
27 Not only that — they also thought , because I 'd gone to the grammar , that suddenly I was too snooty to be friends with them .
28 If I 'd gone to the rank inside , it would have been the railway police 's case .
29 If he 'd gone to the crematorium mortuary with Alan , there would have been a blank in my mind , as I had never seen it , and anyway it was thirty miles away .
30 No , he 'd gone to the apartment where Mahoney and Connie lived , found whatever it was , and then paid his visit to the hospital .
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