Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [to-vb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now when we was between sixteen and eighteen if you was unemployed you 'd got to go to school . |
| 2 | She 'd had to dash to HQ Communications , as the Colonel had insisted his coded message go out that evening . |
| 3 | According to his biographer , Henry Bordeaux , even when he landed he remained in a trance ‘ as if electrified by the fluid still passing through his frame ’ Though through so many dogfights he seemed to bear a charmed life , this kind of nervous impulsiveness seemed bound to lead to disaster . |
| 4 | If you 'd wanted to go to church you could have gone to St Ermin 's which is much nearer . |
| 5 | It was a subconscious form of mourning for a foolish love she 'd allowed to spring to life in her heart , only to kill stone dead — except that her feelings for Dane were far from dead , she acknowledged ruefully . |
| 6 | No children , odd sex and , as a high churchman , he 'd really have had a better image of himself if he 'd managed to keep to celibacy . |
| 7 | He had decided to go to bed early . |
| 8 | Exhausted by anxiety and emotion , Clare had decided to go to bed early . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought you 'd forgotten your coffee and had decided to go to bed instead , ’ he said , looking disapprovingly at her freshly done hair . |
| 10 | The number of times she had had to go to school with no knickers on was nobody 's business , she often told her husband . |
| 11 | In January 1973 I found myself , and the grey metal trunk my eldest brother had used to take to university in 1967 , dumped in an austere fifth form dormitory in the main block of the school . |
| 12 | Quatar announced in February 1988 that both sides had agreed to resort to arbitration by the ICJ . |
| 13 | The problem had been high on the agenda of an OPEC ministerial meeting held in Vienna in mid-March [ see p. 37335 ] , but both Kuwait and the UAE had refused to agree to production cuts . |
| 14 | He had refused to go to bed on time , insisted on watching The Late Show on television , and claimed that Badger was ‘ not worthy ’ to lick him . |
| 15 | During September Patil had refused to bow to pressure from the Congress ( I ) high command to appoint certain individuals to the state Cabinet . |
| 16 | She had wanted to go to bed with Freddie Nash more than anything else in her life . |
| 17 | They had hoped to appeal to Education Secretary Kenneth Clarke to overturn the decision . |
| 18 | McAuley , who has driven for the factory teams of Swift and Van Diemen over the past two years , had hoped to graduate to Formula Three this season , but was unable to raise the £150,000 budget . |
| 19 | It was just like last night again , when the mood had changed between them and she had left to go to bed , filled with regrets . |
| 20 | The lad Steve came into the room , silently like a little cat ; he was wearing a dressing-gown and pyjamas as if he had started to go to bed , but decided against . |
| 21 | And as she thought of the good golfing years she had allowed to go to waste , so praying and practice loomed large in the recovery programme she set herself . |
| 22 | And then , as though it had been waiting there to be born , a plan had begun to come to life in her mind . |
| 23 | He had chosen to go to University in Dundee so he could be near them . |
| 24 | But there was nearly always a small group of so-called " mature students ' , who had failed to get to college when they left school ( due to illness , perhaps , or economic circumstances or the disruption caused by the Second World War of 1939–45 ) . |