Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 ’ .
2 ‘ Team Toyota Europe want them to go to the Safari and they ca n't put off a decision much longer .
3 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 ?
4 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 .
5 The three of them rode to the bank of the river , dismounted , then slipped quickly through the underbrush .
6 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 .
7 If you choose one of these kinds of carpets they should be laid on the paper to stop them sticking to the floor .
8 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 .
9 ‘ Unless , of course , you 'd prefer me to report to the Reichsführer that we lost this man because of your stupidity . ’
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 She wants me to go to the theatre though , I do n't think she 'll enjoy Chekhov very much .
13 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 .
14 He advised me to go to the Academy and work with Professor Dachauer .
15 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 .
16 Then I think : he 'll have worked that out as well , so he 'll expect me to go to the car .
17 My mother would n't allow me to go to the meeting last night — you know she despises anything Irish . "
18 Something forced me to go to the orchard .
19 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 . ’
20 Mrs Aggie ’ — she turned and glanced at Aggie — ‘ paid for me to go to the penny school . ’
21 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 .
22 Howard James had felt pain before , but nothing to compare to the agony he felt from his shattered leg .
23 The theory was that the effort of changing would keep me pinned to the table , diligent and creative .
24 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 .
25 Warranties ‘ are other obligations which , though they must be performed , are not so vital that a failure to perform them goes to the substance of the contract . ’
26 It is believed the platform of the hoist toppled over the first floor balcony sending them crashing to the ground floor .
27 Leith still had n't got herself back together again when the five of them moved to the dining-room .
28 When releasing barn owls that have been in captivity for a long time , we keep them confined to the barn until we 're sure that they are going to adapt happily to their new surrounding . ( )
29 Other similarities between the suicide and the anorexic seem to me to relate to the individual 's reactions to an impinging world .
30 I well remember , for example , friends numbered among Professor ( now Sir ) James Baddiley 's cohorts , all of them bent to the task of unscrambling the structures of different chunks of bacterial cell wall .
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