Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If people want to go swimming in early evening or early morning we would advise them to go to a swimming pool , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 2 | East Germany had agreed to give them papers allowing them to go to the country of their choice , and they were expected to leave Poland ‘ in the very near future ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Team Toyota Europe want them to go to the Safari and they ca n't put off a decision much longer . |
| 4 | You can compel them to go to the polling station and even to put an official election slip into the ballot box but that slip could be blank or spoiled , so what would be achieved ? |
| 5 | Night waking Some professionals suggest that parents should wake their children at certain times during the night to get them to go to the lavatory . |
| 6 | You do n't honestly expect me to agree to a statement like that , do you ? ’ he snapped violently . |
| 7 | ‘ The trouble is that I know that all the time he 's only trying to ingratiate himself in order to get me to agree to a merger . |
| 8 | The three of them rode to the bank of the river , dismounted , then slipped quickly through the underbrush . |
| 9 | In a pond the temperature variations which occur from day to night will affect the buoyancy of the fish 's swimbladders , causing them to float to the water surface or sink to the bottom . |
| 10 | If you choose one of these kinds of carpets they should be laid on the paper to stop them sticking to the floor . |
| 11 | It is normal for me to report to the Council 's Planning Committee the end of year disease statistics and any recommendations which might be necessary in line with the management strategy . |
| 12 | ‘ Unless , of course , you 'd prefer me to report to the Reichsführer that we lost this man because of your stupidity . ’ |
| 13 | The granaries were completed and provided with an imposing portico fronting the street ; an imperial dedication jointly to Septimius Severus , Caracalla and Geta from one of them refers to the construction by an unknown legionary vexillation during the governorship of Alfenus Senecio . |
| 14 | I finally stopped going to school when Charlie did , and Eva arranged for me to go to a college where I could finish my A levels . |
| 15 | Herman S. has just telephoned to ask me to go to the theatre with Ivy and him next Thursday — to see Samuel Beckett 's new play . |
| 16 | She wants me to go to the theatre though , I do n't think she 'll enjoy Chekhov very much . |
| 17 | But I was n't struck by any thunderbolts or lightning flashes , and when talking about the dance afterwards in the Met Office I merely remarked to the officer on duty that I 'd met a very nice corporal and he 'd asked me to go to the Station cinema with him on Saturday . |
| 18 | He advised me to go to the Academy and work with Professor Dachauer . |
| 19 | ONE AFTERNOON KĀLI BROUGHT THE COWS HOME EARLY AND CAME rushing over to ask me to go to the forest with her to collect a load of pine-needles . |
| 20 | Then I think : he 'll have worked that out as well , so he 'll expect me to go to the car . |
| 21 | My mother would n't allow me to go to the meeting last night — you know she despises anything Irish . " |
| 22 | Something forced me to go to the orchard . |
| 23 | I dare not spend another farthing , and it would be suicide for me to go to the bank , even if Richard agreed , which he wo n't . ’ |
| 24 | Mrs Aggie ’ — she turned and glanced at Aggie — ‘ paid for me to go to the penny school . ’ |
| 25 | However , now was not the time to probe into his previous daydreams , and before anything further could be said a shout came from Matt , who had left them to attend to the fire burning beneath the two billies of water which hung from an iron bar . |
| 26 | In this sense , everyone belongs to a culture or sub-culture and is ‘ acculturated ’ ; any distinction between ‘ cultured ’ and ‘ uncultured ’ represents a particular value-judgement within that culture . |
| 27 | Howard James had felt pain before , but nothing to compare to the agony he felt from his shattered leg . |
| 28 | The theory was that the effort of changing would keep me pinned to the table , diligent and creative . |
| 29 | By this time , however , the ‘ Manhattan Project ’ had produced and tested an atomic bomb , and the new President Truman agreed House the fearful weapon against the Japanese in the hope that it would cause them to agree to a ceasefire . |
| 30 | It is puzzling why the C&G 's managing director Andrew Longhurst feels he needs to pay Guardian members 4 per cent of their balances to get them to agree to the merger . |