Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From that decision , leave was given to appeal to the House of Lords . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He was given a scan at the hospital 's radiology department and once his treatment was finished he asked to go to the toilet . |
| 4 | ‘ First he asked to go to the toilet . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was noticeable that Celia no longer asked to go to the sea although , by that time , the weather had changed . |
| 7 | ‘ One of them asked to go to the lavatory . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He stolidly avoided reacting to the word ‘ murdered ’ . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Do you want to go to the Moon , too ? ’ |
| 14 | Well they do n't want to go to the sea , erm |
| 15 | Remarkably , when she was given ungrammatical sentences to repeat , she often produced a grammatically correct version : she repeated ‘ She write she mother a letter ’ as ‘ She wrote her mother a letter ’ , and ‘ Do you want to go movies ? ’ as ‘ Do you want to go to the movies ? ’ . |
| 16 | I did want to go to the boutique . |
| 17 | He would start to pressurise her again and she did n't really want to go to the Dordogne at all . |
| 18 | That 's why I did n't want to go to the edge because I wanted to try and do my own . |
| 19 | She did not want to go to the beach because the beach meant the bikini , and spending all afternoon sucking in her gut and wondering why her skin went straight from fishbelly white to lobster red while all the other kids had golden tans . |
| 20 | My Better Half 's always maintained , and I agree with him , if they do n't want to go to the Church then we wo n't force them . |
| 21 | I do n't want to go to the story as to why the labour party opposed the er th the entry to the city of Marks and Spencer but it 's an interest . |
| 22 | ‘ Graham has made it perfectly clear he does n't want to go to the West Indies next winter — but he 's said those sort of things before about touring and has ended up going . ’ |
| 23 | Do you want to go to the Pete 's house ? |
| 24 | ‘ You 'd have to signal in advance which issues you regarded as a matter of confidence — for instance , the Tories might have a crack at coal privatisation but might not want to go to the country on it if they failed . ’ |
| 25 | But I 'm not really planning to be a hermit ; my brother 's coming over soon , and I know he 'll want to go to the islands , so we 'll be in touch . |
| 26 | This usually takes the form of a burning pain when you pass water and the feeling you want to go to the toilet more often than usual . |
| 27 | This usually takes the form of a burning pain when you pass water and the feeling you want to go to the toilet more often than usual . |
| 28 | ‘ Does anyone else want to go to the toilet ? ’ |
| 29 | He 'll want to go to the toilet when you start blowing the candles out little horror |
| 30 | Fiona returned , pulling on a fluffy white wrap over her red silk dress , saying she really did n't want to go to the dinner and being persuaded again by her husband . |