Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ One of them asked to go to the lavatory . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was noticeable that Celia no longer asked to go to the sea although , by that time , the weather had changed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He was given a scan at the hospital 's radiology department and once his treatment was finished he asked to go to the toilet . |
| 8 | ‘ First he asked to go to the toilet . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Oh aye he applied to go to the Gulf . |
| 12 | But they also wanted a lift into town and we agreed to go to the Hard Rock Café in Honolulu together that night . |
| 13 | Dexter agreed to go to the hospital and find out what he could . |
| 14 | She finally agreed to go to the most expensive Chinese restaurant in town with him . |
| 15 | The council agreed to object to the pylons , but said if they had to have a preferred option , it would be for the western , or red route . |
| 16 | In the Commons , Opposition leader John Smith provoked Tory shouts of fury when he asked : ‘ Is n't it inappropriate for the inquiry to be set up and asked to report to the very regional health authority whose own actions may be the subject of the inquiry ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Besides , hearing of cases brought by the state against thieves who passed their finds to dealers on the black market and failed to report to the Commission on Antiquities ended his youthful enthusiasm for archaeology : Davide was law-abiding by temperament . |
| 19 | He also agreed to grant to the state land at Tatoi as payment for the remainder of his debt . |
| 20 | They agreed to come to the negotiating table and Robert Carnwath , with their counsel , drafted terms of agreement under which a settlement could be worked out . |
| 21 | I went to see a debt counsellor and she agreed to come to the bank with me . |
| 22 | The couple agreed to continue going out socially together , and the therapist agreed to write to the local housing department to back up their application for council accommodation . |
| 23 | He agreed to write to the Peruvian Government . |
| 24 | A friend who tried to go to the man 's aid had to be held back . |
| 25 | I tried to go to the ladies ' room . |
| 26 | Haydon , who painted Wordsworth on Helvellyn in 1842 , noted that ‘ His head is like as if it was carved out of a mossy rock , created before the flood ’ , and those who tried to penetrate to the character beneath the face of the old man used the same ‘ stony ’ vocabulary . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , Mummy , I promised to go to the common and play rounders with Ann and Ruth . ’ |
| 28 | One example may illustrate the nature of these awards : Michael Burn , who crossed the docks alone , had barely got ashore , being half-drowned by the weight of his equipment as he tried to swim to the dockside , and being rescued by Lance-Corporal Young . |
| 29 | Bemused by what was happening he moved to go to the bathroom , and was immediately grabbed by two police officers . |
| 30 | Grandparents , schoolfriends and neighbours all tried to write to the children , to send messages of love and support . |