Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One of them asked to go to the lavatory . |
| 2 | And in fact , I think in recent years what we know as the third world is the fourth , because those oil producing countries in the third world retained the status of being third and everyone got pushed to the fourth . |
| 3 | And er erm they saw me on the you know television programme and they asked me to go go to the school and |
| 4 | And entertainment as fantasy is not acceptable , though I do n't think everyone has to go to the extremes of U2 or Jimmy Somerville , or whoever it is or whatever their politics . |
| 5 | Thus , sometimes a seller will find himself still in possession of goods after the ownership in them has passed to the buyer . |
| 6 | Until he begins to write cheques , i.e. to spend , nothing has happened to the balance sheet . |
| 7 | Clearly , as far as our lending bank is concerned , nothing has happened to the money supply . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I asked to speak to the person in charge of the station . |
| 10 | I mean I read according to the paper this morning young people have got to have a |
| 11 | later than that , it 's er I mean to go to the crematorium at quarter past eleven , we would n't be back here before twelve o'clock . |
| 12 | ‘ I mean to get to the bottom of it , ’ said Lydia , only without much conviction . |
| 13 | They were not , they were not dispensed with , well one could look back in seventy eight and say retrospectively how that process could have been started considerably earlier , er the honourable gentleman knows perfectly well that er as the Maastricht bill was winding its way through here it was n't really practical to run this but indeed the processes were started before the governing legislation was on the statute book and I quite understand why honourable gentlemen opposite wish to make their party points , particularly those particularly those who were not in the house in seventy eight which er does n't I think apply to the honourable gentleman from from Birmingham , when he knows perfectly well that the same kind of machinery is used now was used then and it was used as fairly and as honestly and as completely impartially as the time allowed . |
| 14 | ‘ It was a trip of a lifetime and I intend to return to the States self-financed , I expect . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It was the trip of a lifetime and I intend to return to the States — self-financed , I expect . ’ |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | Mrs Keating shouted , ‘ I think you 'd better know , I intend to write to the school about this . ’ |
| 18 | Judge Harry Walker , who gave Jim bail yesterday , told him : ‘ I intend to get to the bottom of this . ’ |
| 19 | If I get a decent vote I intend going to the Guinness Book of Records for the highest number of votes for the smallest expenditure . ’ |
| 20 | Half awake , I lay listening to the silence . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They all went to the local comprehensive — which I wanted to but , because I passed my 11-plus I got sent to the grammar instead . |
| 23 | Dave , Lancashire region , on three nine seven , Chair , when I got elected to the Labour Council in Rochdale , I took a whip that I had , did what the policy was of the Rochdale D L P . |
| 24 | I 'm the only one who 's ever been mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nine , taking numbers on polling stations and so on , and so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon . |
| 25 | And so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon . |
| 26 | I used to be a spooler , worked a machine , but I got moved to the samples about six years ago . |
| 27 | But I got promoted to the road roller and then into the power station so |
| 28 | ‘ I hate going to the pictures . |
| 29 | I hate going to the cinema . |
| 30 | When the first meeting happens someone needs to explain to the people there ( and do n't be discouraged if there are fewer that you 'd hoped for ) what the Christian group is all about and why it 's important to have a group in school . |