Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Valley Hotel is ideally situated to appeal to the overnight tourist , mid-week and weekend break markets . |
| 2 | Too run-down and curiously situated to appeal to most families , it had stood empty for several years before Frankie 's parents made it their home . |
| 3 | From that decision , leave was given to appeal to the House of Lords . |
| 4 | Aggregates tend to appeal to ( comfortable ) analysts . |
| 5 | When Elizabeth returned to England she talked of how she planned to go to South Africa to see if her future was there with Mr Cronje . |
| 6 | Once demobbed he planned to go to New Zealand and start a new life . |
| 7 | Bernard 's father had been a builder , his two elder brothers were house painters ; his older sister was married to a carpenter : another just left nursing to be married ; his two younger sisters were still at school and planned to go to college against their mother 's wishes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Once we have found an explanation that seems to make sense we tend to cling to it religiously . |
| 10 | Such animals may appear magical to us because we tend to cling to our own heavily filtered reality . |
| 11 | ‘ That was the first stripping off of the so-called glamour that women of my age tend to cling to , not just actresses ’ . |
| 12 | Despite this , we still tend to cling to the traditional . |
| 13 | ‘ One of them asked to go to the lavatory . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was noticeable that Celia no longer asked to go to the sea although , by that time , the weather had changed . |
| 16 | I chose a time when I knew the Trunchbull was out of the way teaching the sixth-formers , and I put up my hand and asked to go to the bogs . |
| 17 | He asked to go to the most demanding area and ended up in Smallhealth and Sparkbrook with a case load of up to 60 children . |
| 18 | During a hunger strike she asked to go to Confession . |
| 19 | He was given a scan at the hospital 's radiology department and once his treatment was finished he asked to go to the toilet . |
| 20 | ‘ First he asked to go to the toilet . |
| 21 | R.A. Hamilton asked that more mature trees be obtained and the chairman agreed to attend to this matter . |
| 22 | Do they want to continue to be ruled by communists ? |
| 23 | The following article written by , the editor of the national journal of the NCT ‘ New Generation ’ , struck a chord with the branch committee members , and we hope that you too will want to continue to be part of NCT for at least the year 1991 ! |
| 24 | For lunch I intend to go to the Strawberry Duck pub , Entwhistle , Saturday afternoon is free for shopping in Manchester 's Arndale Centre or whatever and for the evening meal the plan is to go to the new Indian take-away which has opened near Castle Irwell — the ‘ Tandoori Cottage ’ . |
| 25 | A spokesman said while they accept they 've lost the copyright battle , they still intend to go to court again in an attempt to get the damages reduced . |
| 26 | So I opened it and it 's one of these things er if you book to go to Dublin before May the , whatever , the end of May |
| 27 | I asked her about the letter and she said she could n't remember anything about it but she filled in something when they came back from Belfast and she said open it , so I opened it and it 's one of these things er if you book to go to Dublin before May the whatever , the end of May , then if you went again in the Autumn , you you get er fifty pounds worth of vouchers or something , you go half price . |
| 28 | At present even those authorities who support the concept of advocacy tend to wait to be approached by a local voluntary group before initiating a project . |
| 29 | Apart from anything else , we , we do n't just go to the theatre we have , we really tend to wait to be invited |
| 30 | In fact , by the year 2000 the number of school leavers will not have returned to the 1970 level and is predicted to continue to fall to an all-time low in 1993/4(2) . |