Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [to-vb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ponies in the paddock , that sort of romantic scenario everyone has to come to terms with . ’ |
| 2 | Everyone needs to refer to back issues of ACCOUNTANCY from time to time , and there are two ways we can help . |
| 3 | He told me to try to go to Cookham Wood : in his words , ‘ There 's a better class of prisoner there . |
| 4 | I asked to talk to Cal again . |
| 5 | I asked to speak to Gina Buffon . |
| 6 | I waited for her to say something else , but she did n't , so I asked to speak to Toby . |
| 7 | I asked to come to Grendon , I did n't like it when i got here , it took a lot of getting used |
| 8 | When do n't I want to go to bed with her ? |
| 9 | But we still got the threat : I 'd be summonsed , and no way did I want to go to court . |
| 10 | ‘ I mean to go to Italy one day , as my brother has done , ’ she told me , when I discovered her on a stone bench in the garden , reading a book . |
| 11 | I mean to get to Beckenham that way it takes . |
| 12 | The compassion I intend to show to Miller marks an important turning point in my own personal history . |
| 13 | ( I planned to return to Vancouver on the midnight ferry ) . |
| 14 | This emotion which , even as I planned to drive to Prague , while admitting only to liking you well enough to want to ease any problems that might arise , made me instruct Lubor … ’ |
| 15 | I hate to listen to guitarists rattle off rubbish about ‘ the only thing that matters is the story of the song ’ because that 's just a bunch of crap ! |
| 16 | I would say I tend to listen to Peter Gabriel more . |
| 17 | Have a look at the introd the erm I find is a bit sort of sleepy , I tend to go to sleep , but the and quite got nice big pictures and interesting stories . |
| 18 | I 've never walked the whole 72-mile coast path in one go as I tend to head to Dorset at weekends and just explore different areas on day walks . |
| 19 | If possible we must spend that time at Coate [ where Edward then was ] , and now I long to go to Horsmonden , for every place where you have lived and been happy , is to me dearer than any others . |
| 20 | ‘ But someone needs to talk to Earth Commander again . ’ |
| 21 | that 's what I tried to say to people , that if you want to be an informed parent then you want to know fully who 's doing it , what , you want to know the content , you want |
| 22 | I tried to explain to Drew , but he just sent me off . ’ |
| 23 | I tried to explain to Irena that I did n't mind , that this was how I felt it should be — the real Central Europe — and anyway I preferred that kind of place to ordered museums and shining monuments . |
| 24 | I tried to explain to people the real meaning of Dominion status with its opportunity of self-government within a wider membership which would always come to its support . |
| 25 | So in the end I went upstairs , left Tony to it and I came back down and I tried to go to sleep again , I put me coat over me head and I could n't sleep so I moved . |
| 26 | I tried to talk to Branwell about it , but it was impossible . |
| 27 | On two occasions , I tried to talk to people and ask for help . |
| 28 | I tried to speak to Brian Clough but he would never take my calls . |
| 29 | Each time I pretended to go to sleep again and went crazy after a few minutes . |
| 30 | I propose to go to Durham , or anywhere else I choose , by myself . ’ |