Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But sometimes the Earl would ring me at home at night and ask me to drive back to Althorp because the Countess was in floods of tears . |
| 2 | During the 1980s , there has been a marked decline in the proportion of secondary students who gain the Sudan School Certificate which enables them to go on to higher education or enter the civil service . |
| 3 | Having reached the last four of the Tennents Scottish Cup , it is not beyond them to go on to beat Aberdeen or Clydebank at Tynecastle next month and pursue a piece of silverware that has not been seen in the boardroom at Easter Road since the turn of the century . |
| 4 | But the room was suddenly bathed in light and Nancy Leadbetter , who had pressed all the switches by the door , was among them and telling them to go out to the barbecue because that was where the fun was about to begin . |
| 5 | But Grace would n't need them to go out to sea on the ebb tide . |
| 6 | Initially , all that is required of volunteers is for them to go along to a clinic where a small sample of blood is taken . |
| 7 | Old Señor Freitas coughed , before he said , ‘ Sometimes señoritas have families who want them to go back to their own country . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ For , ’ she put down , ‘ I want to go there as humble McAllister who keeps the house clean , dressed the doll and made and embroidered the baby clothes , not as the American Princess doing the gracious , ladling our Papa 's money , not one penny of which I have earned , smiling and patronising those not so fortunate as myself , and then leaving them to go home to the embassy — to forget them ! ’ |
| 9 | In the 1987 budget , a " carryback " was introduced for BES investors , enabling them to carry back to the previous tax year relief on up to 15,000 invested . |
| 10 | And when they had dined , the remainder was divided among them to carry home to their families . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Bumface came here to tell me that he was going to fight the War Office and that he was not having the WO Instruction for me to report forthwith to the Ski Battalion at Bordon . |
| 12 | I called in at the office on one of my days off , to see what was doing , and found that a posting had come through for me to report forthwith to Group Headquarters at Huntingdon . |
| 13 | He tried to bolster his courage by reciting the reasons for what he was doing : go per cent of them boiled down to a pressing need for money , so pressing that the bank was threatening to foreclose on his mortgage ; the other lo per cent was divided between the desire to do Lorton a good turn and the feeling that the Newleys deserved whatever fate could throw at them . |
| 14 | Those are rocks and you are sitting on them gazing out to sea . |
| 15 | I was , moreover , amused by the juxtaposition of names in the Bedford High Street — Blood , Sand , DeAth : the bullring , of course ! — which made me think back to my Special Subject paper in the Finals , on the Spanish Background of English Literature . |
| 16 | Mr Jaggers clearly thought Joe was a fool for refusing money , and left the house , reminding me to go straight to his office in London in a week 's time . |
| 17 | When we arrived at her house , Eva put her hand on my shoulder and told me to go upstairs to Charlie . |
| 18 | My father wanted me to go on to a Public School and I received special lessons in Latin Verse and in Greek .. |
| 19 | ‘ Then , about a month later , he asked me to go up to Camp David while he and his family were using the facility . |
| 20 | Just before Christmas , Pogo invited Aubrey and me to go up to Melton Mowbray to hunt . |
| 21 | D' ya want me to go round to that school and beat the crap out of them ? |
| 22 | Yeah eh she asked me to go over to John |
| 23 | When I first came my husband did not want me to go out to work . |
| 24 | I hope she do n't tell me to go back to my old room , cos I really like sleeping with Marie . |
| 25 | The day came for me to go back to work . |
| 26 | A poignant reflection on the situation occurs in the entries for Thursday and Friday , October 10th and 11th Thursday : ‘ Had a terrible row today ; Elfed told me to go back to Pontrhydyfen . |
| 27 | So then it was up to me to go back to the script and find what I could to give me a lead . |
| 28 | The doctors told me to go back to Cambridge and carry on with the research I had just started in general relativity and cosmology . |
| 29 | ‘ There is nothing for me to go back to , ’ she says , ‘ nothing for me to live off . |
| 30 | If you 'd er allow me to go back to item seven briefly . |