Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] to the [noun sg] " 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 | He stolidly avoided reacting to the word ‘ murdered ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Dexter agreed to go to the hospital and find out what he could . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He also agreed to grant to the state land at Tatoi as payment for the remainder of his debt . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I went to see a debt counsellor and she agreed to come to the bank with me . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A friend who tried to go to the man 's aid had to be held back . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Bemused by what was happening he moved to go to the bathroom , and was immediately grabbed by two police officers . |
| 22 | When Tallis rode up this narrow track she sent stones tumbling to the glittering water below her , and at a certain height she stopped to listen to the sound , recognizing it from a time in childhood , from a time when she had summoned images of another world , and Harry had called to her for help . |
| 23 | I shimmied shivering to the bedsit , slotted another shilling in the gas fire and reached for the knob on the third drawer of the tallboy . |
| 24 | The House of Lords upheld the award , ruling that the writers ' intention was immaterial ; what mattered was whether reasonable readers would think that the words used applied to the plaintiff . |
| 25 | Before he fired the man , Judge Shindler heard from the rest of the jury that the wayward juror had DRUNK and SWORN during the trial and DISTRACTED them while they tried to listen to the evidence . |
| 26 | Sally tried to talk to the boy 's mother , but she dismissed it all as harmless pranks . |
| 27 | More than half of the children were ignored whatever they did — whether they cried , played or tried to talk to the adult . |
| 28 | Although it said that he would be ‘ interrogated and tried according to the country 's law ’ , to AI 's knowledge no formal charges have been brought against him in court . |
| 29 | CSCE members who were not members of NATO or the defunct Warsaw Pact would invited to accede to the treaty before it took effect in 1993 . |
| 30 | She neither sobbed nor wept aloud as Dr Neil sighed , closed Effie 's eyes , pulled up the sheet , and rose to walk to the window , to look out of it , at nothing , McAllister suspected . |