Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] to go [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It 's always dark in morning in winter — it used to be dark when I got up to go to the building site .
2 Some time later I got up to go to the loo .
3 Passenger John Keane , of Newmarket , Co Cork , said : ‘ I got up to go to the toilet at 6 o'clock and noticed this very strong , striking smell .
4 Anyway , at about half past two , I got up to go to the loo and my waters broke — just a trickle , but I knew what it was .
5 I got up to go to the toilet but they er must have been too quick for me , .
6 ‘ That evening my older brother and I set off to go to the pictures only to find they were closed , we did not have a television and the wireless was only playing sombre music , ’ says Mrs Smith , who now lives at Campsie Close , Lambton Village , Washington .
7 I asked as I stood up to go to the bar .
8 If you got up to go to the loo , you 'd trip over this bundle . ’
9 By 2.30am , Liz was feeling increasingly uncomfortable , though , so she got up to go to the loo and by ten to three , she was finding it impossible to get back to sleep .
10 ‘ For the good it did me , ’ Ruth murmured as she got up to go to the shower-room .
11 I like all this and that bit but she has er , you end up to go on the dirty little foxes and you get on and there 's so , runny nosed yobbo kid about twelve , gets on
12 As he got up to go to the microphone , I asked him what he was going to sing .
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