Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No blinking Sam goes to me , cos we were , we were , we turned Arachnophobia off because people needed the toilet and erm there was Songs of Praise or , you know , something like that and they were talking about all this terrorism , somebody said oh I 'm glad you did n't go to London said but I did and she goes oh no you did n't did you ? worried about me going to London |
| 2 | But it makes commercial sense for them to respond to pressure . |
| 3 | Four out of every five currently leave school with no qualifications , making it all the more difficult for them to adapt to adult life . |
| 4 | When Loc , with another worried glance in Jacques Devraux 's direction , insisted it was time for them to go to bed , Paul galloped across the clearing with little Hoc on his shoulders and dumped the boy squealing with laughter on his sleeping mat . |
| 5 | No one wanted the children to be more traumatised than they already were , she said , and it would certainly be less travelling for them to go to Inverness than to return to Kirkwall . |
| 6 | no need for them to go to Norwood Gardens or or they they specifically did n't go to Norwood Gardens they just went through did n't they ? |
| 7 | This released accumulations of polychlorinated biphenyls ( PCBs ) into the bloodstream , which together with hunger , helped weaken the dolphins enough for them to succumb to infections of herpes and distemper . |
| 8 | They know that their children are stronger than them in many ways and it is hard for them to come to terms with that and still keep their dignity and self-respect . |
| 9 | Although we should be wary of taking all such accounts at face value , since party feeling often ran sufficiently high amongst local inhabitants that little encouragement was needed for them to come to blows , such practices certainly did go on . |
| 10 | Eventually his mother was asked to remove him because the staff never managed to bring his behaviour under control ; they found that he produced just too much undesirable behaviour for them to get to grips with . |
| 11 | Roman 's eyes followed the movement , his eyes darkened , and the tension between them increased to danger point . |
| 12 | It will be necessary for me to return to Mr assessment of the quality and extent to which the parent 's contribution has helped to achieve the plaintiff 's present quality of life . |
| 13 | And we 'd seen photographs of these and they were marvellous , and he said to me , I should like to see these fl these flats , he said er , I 'm gon na convince the Board that it 's necessary in the interests of the firm for me to go to Austria , you see . |
| 14 | eyes on before and when it was time for me to go to bed I would be encouraged not made |
| 15 | He used to call for me to go to school , and that could be an eventful journey because the way led through the Sayers ' farm at West New Houses , and they kept a flock of geese and a bull . |
| 16 | He aimed for me to go to school but brass he could n't pay , |
| 17 | The time came for me to go to university . |
| 18 | Whenever I went to Fisherton Street it was a must for me to go to Pickfords , the carriers for The Great Western Railway , just to gaze in the window , for right in the centre was a beautiful scale model of one of their pantechnicons , some two feet in length . |
| 19 | Smith had lent me his very able stenographer and we worked until dawn , when the memorandum was typed and ready for me to take to Smith first thing in the morning . |
| 20 | It was necessary for me to travel to New York . |
| 21 | There is no need for me to speak to Celia , ’ and I rang off . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't think there is any rush for me to get to America and make films . |
| 23 | I bet they are not praying for me going to Saltcoats . |
| 24 | And when I When it was opened out for me going to Deerness , well that was a great event . |
| 25 | ‘ My aunt lives in Hastings , so my bloody overprotective parents thought it would be OK for me to come to Sussex . |
| 26 | It was quite an adventure for me to come to Ireland , you know . |
| 27 | ‘ I am bitterly disappointed , for Aunt Emily says that it would not be at all proper for me to come to Trelorne and that I was very wrong to let you think that I might . |
| 28 | ‘ It took a long time for me to come to terms with the whole mistletoe thing . |
| 29 | How 's the , it 's a nice change for me to come to Crewe on Thursday |
| 30 | I sent her the manuscript , and she appointed a day for me to come to tea and take it back . |