Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they also wanted a lift into town and we agreed to go to the Hard Rock Café in Honolulu together that night . |
| 2 | He agreed to write to the Peruvian Government . |
| 3 | The couple agreed to continue going out socially together , and the therapist agreed to write to the local housing department to back up their application for council accommodation . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , Mummy , I promised to go to the common and play rounders with Ann and Ruth . ’ |
| 5 | Although he promised to listen to the Welsh , he also rebuked those who had criticised his appointment , as a Tory Right-winger and MP for Wokingham . |
| 6 | That 's why I stopped going to the Olde Tyme Dancing with him . |
| 7 | Scottish scholars stopped going to the English universities ; the veneer of English influence on Scottish law and judicial practice was torn away . |
| 8 | It is well settled that such a grant or demise will … impliedly confer on the grantee or lessee … easements over the land retained corresponding to the continuous or apparent quasi-easements enjoyed at the time of the grant or demise by the property granted or demised over the property retained … |
| 9 | Hebbert joined him and moved left to the obvious beetling crack and groove line he had spotted from below — omitting to pause and wonder why this particular line soared up straight as an arrow , on a route called Curving Crack ! . |
| 10 | Then as four pints of blood spurted from his gaping wounds , he staggered screaming to the nearby home of 63-year-old Mavis Clark . |
| 11 | He clung shivering to the comfortless bed that seemed now the only tenuous security he had , but he was plucked away from it and hustled through the doorway , still bemused with cold and sleep . |
| 12 | This movement ‘ down ’ from God to man expresses and reveals the character and nature of God himself ; for his being is not separate from his action ; and in the answering movement ‘ up ’ from man to God , we see that human existence itself is grounded upon and made to answer to the divine initiative . |
| 13 | The right of the painter to move around an object and combine various views of it into a single image , first stated in writing by Metzinger in 1910 and elaborated a few months later by Allard , was quickly adopted by most critics as a central feature of the style , and became related to the conceptual or intellectual aspect . |
| 14 | Constituency parties had to be wound up and re-formed to conform to the new boundaries . |
| 15 | For all his faults , Lij Yasu was remembered by many as a more comprehensible ruler than Haile Selassie , who failed to conform to the popular image of an Abyssinian monarch . |
| 16 | She said to Rourke , ‘ You wanted to know if I 'd lent out keys to anyone — the telephone engineer , you said , and the man who came to see to the new extension around the back . ’ |
| 17 | I smiled , nodding my head , not unhappy that he 'd jumped to the wrong conclusions , but surprised that he did n't know the secret of paying by instalments . |
| 18 | Vitor entered her and Ashley 's hips lifted , meeting the hard rhythmic thrusts which seemed to penetrate to the very depths of her womb . |
| 19 | Ringing the woman 's number again , she found her in , and more than ready to offer her somewhat trenchant views on the House of Commons and the way that seminal institution seemed to cling to the outmoded notion that women were an inferior breed . |
| 20 | Although he never grew much above 5′5″ , Bremner was always in the thick of disputes and played according to the old motto , when the going gets tough , the tough get going . |
| 21 | After all , she now knew beyond reasonable doubt who her father had been , and she 'd warmed to the little she 'd been told about him . |
| 22 | But he did n't want to go to the bloody thing , not after what they 'd done to the poor old man . |
| 23 | I did not think of following him , my feet seemed rooted to the sandy path and I saw him through a mist of tears as he appeared to melt through the door , which closed behind him . |
| 24 | The question of possible mis-dealings by Rubio also raised sensitive issues at the level of the European Communities ( EC ) , as the EC prepared to give to the central bank governors by the end of 1993 increased powers in determining monetary policy . |
| 25 | But then United broke to the other end and won a free kick a minute into injury time . |
| 26 | As a child it had been embarrassing and as both teachers and playmates had looked askance at the familiarity she 'd reverted to the ubiquitous ‘ Mum ’ in their presence , but woe betide her if she had lapsed into this form of address in Margaret 's presence ! |
| 27 | The monetary sector now comprised : ( a ) all recognized banks and LDTs ; ( b ) the National Girobank ; ( c ) the Trustee Savings Bank ; ( d ) the Banking Department of the Bank of England ; and ( e ) those institutions in the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man which opted to adhere to the new arrangements . |
| 28 | You know when we came back the next Saturday as we 've gone through the front door , he 'd gone to the Little Chef for breakfast because there were n't any crocks left to u , to use |
| 29 | The last time she and Arnie had eaten out they 'd gone to the local curry house where they went about four times a year . |
| 30 | She laughed happily , remembering the pains she 'd gone to the previous evening . |