Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] to go [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody told me to become a stand-up comedian and nobody told me to go on the fucking telly . ’ |
| 2 | In the Australian bush in the early 1930s , my mother-to-be was the daughter of a locomotive driver who watched her like a hawk and forbade her to go to the crasser ends of town . |
| 3 | Ludens told her to go to the British Museum and the National Gallery , which she did , though declining his offer to ‘ show her round ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ I told her to go into the other room- and say she thought he was going to be in there . |
| 5 | He urged him to go to the local hotel , only twelve miles in the wrong direction . |
| 6 | Even with such insight it has to be said : we go to the exotic other to lose everything , including ourselves — everything that is but the privilege which enabled us to go in the first place . |
| 7 | In many cases , the parents of the brighter children wished them to go to the secondary school in Jarrow , an overcrowded building housing about 400 pupils in which good scholarship results were achieved , but there were serious difficulties facing their children : |
| 8 | To his embarrassment , the lawyer at the hearings then obliged him to go through a whole code-sheet to get the names into the record , or perhaps just to entertain the audience . |
| 9 | I said I wanted him to go to an outside hospital , so they took him . |
| 10 | Polls suggested that up to one in four Conservative MPs wanted her to go before the next general election : growing numbers of backbenchers were prepared openly to declare that the time had come for her to call it a day . |