Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prince wants me to go to a bloody ball . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ They want me to go to a mental hospital , Mum . ’ |
| 3 | It 's also good for them to come to a new school and know at least one face there . |
| 4 | The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu , K. O. P. M. Karunanidhi , was given the responsibility of talking to the various Tamil groups to persuade them to come to a peaceful settlement after the withdrawal of the IPKF . |
| 5 | Had Aldous Huxley introduced a sub-plot into Brave New World , where the remains of a dead man were cannibalised to save the lives of 50 strangers , only for them to succumb to a lethal virus hidden in his tissues , his readers would have been impressed by the fertility of his futuristic imagination . |
| 6 | I repeat a proposition that I made to a previous Leader of the House . |
| 7 | I mean to a certain extent I have just said them . |
| 8 | At one time a business proposition came up and , thinking it would help him kick his habit , I agreed to a joint overdraft . |
| 9 | I moved to a yellow and tartan design . |
| 10 | I moved to a different phase and involved myself in witch-like pursuits , looking for a special spell ( they had already told me what it was to be ) . |
| 11 | After a TOPS course I got a full-time job in computing and I moved to a different part of London . |
| 12 | Then I moved to a different teacher to get some more , you know , experience . |
| 13 | That afternoon I moved to a quiet little hotel on Fifth Avenue . |
| 14 | I took an early morning train from Paris to Toulouse , where I changed to a small local train for Ax-les-Thermes . |
| 15 | I was a late and I changed to an early and back to a late . |
| 16 | I certainly do n't want to do that , I want to a wealthy old man . |
| 17 | In the grounds of the Elgin Cathedral , I mentioned to a passing man , a local , with whom I had fallen into conversation , ‘ Dr Johnson had a meal here , that was so bad he could n't eat it . ’ |
| 18 | er , so I 've a , is n't it , it 's a case of no news is possibly good news again , erm , I 'm trying to get in touch with the National Co-Organiser for Carl and John without er any success erm , I know he was going to the erm , the British Section just erm , he was gon na check on them and what actions were forthcoming but er , I have n't heard about that erm , I dare say there 's some on the way erm , the erm , the other few points were erm Jackie 's talk last month she mentioned that erm she was gon na give sort of the more forms sort of side presentation and stuff at their centre in North London , I 've got ta date for that now , it 's erm the eighteenth of March , which is a Wednesday so eh , I 'll certainly be going , if anybody else is interested that 's er , that 's the date er , it 's , it 's not entirely to do with but it , it has a link in , erm we were mentioning campaigns last month , I believe there 's a fourth coming one on , indigenous peoples , which , er , it 's , it 's all sort of triggered off by erm the er five hundredth anniversary of Columbus discovering the Americas erm , the erm cast and the whole of all the sort of the Region and Action networks and the Americas are , erm gon na have a big link in with that campaign so , erm , I , I 'd really like to see us sort of getting involved with that , yes , and , I mean , I 'll be involved to an extent anyway , cos some of the actions that I 'll getting will be sort of addressing the issue of indigenous people 's but erm , erm , they if , if nobody else is wiling to take it on , I 'll , I 'll , I 'd certainly be prepared to erm , sort of co-ordinate that campaign , erm , having said all that , erm I mentioned to a few people that erm , erm in the process of buying a house , so erm I could be moving in well hopefully as little as two months time so erm , I mean if er is as quite as it has been for the last few months , I probably wo n't have any problems , but erm , sod 's law it 's bound to pick up just as I 'm moving house |
| 19 | while directly above I bend to a bottom drawer |
| 20 | So , when at last I came to a small village with a large church , I decided that perhaps the priest might be the best person to tell me where these prehistoric pagans buried their dead . |
| 21 | I had already gathered from the groom that Sir John had not left so , when I came to a small copse of trees , I took my horse deep inside , hobbled it and sat on a boulder . |
| 22 | Open pastureland succeeded the neglected wood as I walked on , and soon I came to a rough circle of boulders on a mound — Lisheen , the little fort , home of fairies . |
| 23 | In the end I came to a good old British compromise . |
| 24 | Soon I came to a strange place where the river divided , one part of it compressed as a hurling white torrent between steep artificial banks , the other part let into a tranquil canal that entered Galway from the countryside . |
| 25 | At nine o'clock , after twelve miles , I came to a slippery escarpment , a cascade of sand tumbling five hundred feet to a plain which , in spite of a slight haze , I could see stretching some sixty miles south and west . |
| 26 | Separate from my parents in another country , I came to a new knowledge of me as a self apart . |
| 27 | Nervously , I moved forward , fumbling round the battlements until I came to a protruding wooden pole . |
| 28 | I managed to hold the aircraft straight for a short distance , running on the nosewheel which , luckily , had escaped damage , but as the speed came off the aircraft slewed sharply left and I came to a slithering , steaming halt about 200 metres the other side of the dyke , well off the runway . |
| 29 | Five hours later , after I had passed beneath a crudely-lettered blue notice board that welcomed travellers to the unpeopled jungle vastness of Darién , I came to a wooden sign that said simply ‘ Sante Fé ’ . |
| 30 | On the contrary , the older I get , the greater priority I give to a loving relationship . |