Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was given a scan at the hospital 's radiology department and once his treatment was finished he asked to go to the toilet . |
| 3 | ‘ First he asked to go to the toilet . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was noticeable that Celia no longer asked to go to the sea although , by that time , the weather had changed . |
| 6 | ‘ One of them asked to go to the lavatory . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He stolidly avoided reacting to the word ‘ murdered ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | All biological life thus adapted its metabolism to the level of solar warmth , and became adjusted to the strength of solar radiation prevailing at the time . |
| 12 | Oh aye he applied to go to the Gulf . |
| 13 | Dexter agreed to go to the hospital and find out what he could . |
| 14 | The council agreed to object to the pylons , but said if they had to have a preferred option , it would be for the western , or red route . |
| 15 | Ajdabiyans expected to go to the polls in the winter of 1978–9 , and in anticipation their political activists had drawn up two lists of candidates for each of the fifteen popular committees . |
| 16 | Besides , hearing of cases brought by the state against thieves who passed their finds to dealers on the black market and failed to report to the Commission on Antiquities ended his youthful enthusiasm for archaeology : Davide was law-abiding by temperament . |
| 17 | He also agreed to grant to the state land at Tatoi as payment for the remainder of his debt . |
| 18 | But the continuation of the Cold War and Europe 's reluctance to surrender American military protection , meant that substantial amounts of US military aid and large numbers of US troops became committed to the Continent on a permanent basis after the Korean War . |
| 19 | The institutions of higher education became a sounding board for class conflict , and decade by decade a minority became committed to the cause of the masses . |
| 20 | Convinced of the rightness of his policies and fearful of the consequences of economic decline , Mosley became attracted to the forms of activist mass politics in an attempt to rejuvenate society . |
| 21 | They agreed to come to the negotiating table and Robert Carnwath , with their counsel , drafted terms of agreement under which a settlement could be worked out . |
| 22 | I went to see a debt counsellor and she agreed to come to the bank with me . |
| 23 | When investigators questioned the public about privacy on behalf of the Younger Committee , 33 per cent of those asked objected to the publication of names and addresses as happens in the Electoral Roll . |
| 24 | It helped bring to the premiership Pierre Mendès-France , a member of the influential Radical Party and a man of energy who commanded considerable personal loyalty . |
| 25 | I tried to go to the ladies ' room . |
| 26 | A friend who tried to go to the man 's aid had to be held back . |
| 27 | Haydon , who painted Wordsworth on Helvellyn in 1842 , noted that ‘ His head is like as if it was carved out of a mossy rock , created before the flood ’ , and those who tried to penetrate to the character beneath the face of the old man used the same ‘ stony ’ vocabulary . |
| 28 | One example may illustrate the nature of these awards : Michael Burn , who crossed the docks alone , had barely got ashore , being half-drowned by the weight of his equipment as he tried to swim to the dockside , and being rescued by Lance-Corporal Young . |
| 29 | Bemused by what was happening he moved to go to the bathroom , and was immediately grabbed by two police officers . |
| 30 | Grandparents , schoolfriends and neighbours all tried to write to the children , to send messages of love and support . |