Example sentences of "[vb past] to go [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I began to realise that life like this could not last for ever and so I asked to go back to the Cheshire Home for a holiday . |
| 2 | The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet . |
| 3 | She must have told Gloria off too , for the very next day , Gloria said , ‘ You got to go off to the country , ducks , health visitor says . |
| 4 | Next summer mum was told she would have to go back into hospital for a long time , and because I already knew the place , I agreed to go back to the Cheshire Home for this period . |
| 5 | I used to discuss with my brother ways and means of becoming martyrs , and we agreed to go together to the land of the Moors , begging our way for the love of God , so that we might be beheaded there … . |
| 6 | On the following Monday she proposed to go back to the job she had taken to make it financially possible for Peter and her to buy their little home . |
| 7 | ‘ You must excuse me — I promised to go along to the tennis courts . |
| 8 | Some of us needed to go out to the lavatory , and all of us asked for a wash . |
| 9 | The painful contractions started before I reached the ward and by the time the ward nurse had brought me 2 paracetamol , I needed to go back to the delivery suite ! |
| 10 | He decided to go on to the second and third caves , determined to find what he was looking for . |
| 11 | So I decided to go on to the council . |
| 12 | I was very kindly invited back to the marquee for tea , but as it was by then after 4.30pm , I decided to go straight to the car , take off my dripping mackintosh , and drive back to London , after a very happy day which raised £25,000 for the Prince 's Trust . |
| 13 | Finally , the shaman ( priest ) of the tribe decided to go alone to the top of the hill and speak to the Great Spirits . |
| 14 | Therefore instead of walking all the way along the cliffs that morning , he decided to go down to the beach on the last lap of his journey , knowing that Edna and her small charge could well be at the far end , from whence he could quickly scramble up the pathway to the Tremayne property . |
| 15 | He dismissed the subject from his mind and decided to go down to the tiny lunchroom he ran for his employees , to get a cup of coffee . |
| 16 | Just after six , with darkness falling , I decided to go down to the bar for a drink , was pulling on my jacket when the phone went . |
| 17 | He decided to go down to the cottage during the afternoon and find out for himself . |
| 18 | I decided to go back to the block and rest for a little . |
| 19 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 20 | So I decided to go back to the ship again , and get some more things . |
| 21 | There was a telephone by the bed but he decided to go back to the hall , where another instrument stood on a table under the bannisters . |
| 22 | When the answer was a resounding ‘ Non ’ they decided to go back to the classroom . |
| 23 | He left me to become acquainted with the religious environment , and then handed me a paperback entitled Modern Buddhism in Burma , which he had edited in cooperation with Kenneth Saunders , warden of the YMCA hostel , and already a translator of the Dhamma-pada , a collection of short sayings thought to go back to the Buddha . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , because he had had a source of comfort , the moment Ellie left to go back to the house his mournful howls increased in volume . |
| 25 | I hoped to go down to the desert at Zagora . |
| 26 | Either he had to go up to the Broken Hill Ironworks at Newcastle or she had to go down to Canberra to see some official about tariffs or quotas or immigration levels . |
| 27 | We had to go downstairs to the toilet , and in the winter the water used to freeze up . |
| 28 | These cottage front doors were never used — some even had rows of flowerpots across the sill as a deterrent — and Anna had to go round to the back to find a resting place for the magazine . |
| 29 | I had to go on to the usual horror . |
| 30 | He had to make frequent visits to hospital , for plaster to be changed , for X-rays and check-ups , and as unfortunately further cancer cells had been found in his spine , he had to go periodically to the Christie Hospital again . |