Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One of them asked to go to the lavatory . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I asked to talk to Cal again . |
| 4 | I asked to speak to Gina Buffon . |
| 5 | I asked to speak to the person in charge of the station . |
| 6 | I waited for her to say something else , but she did n't , so I asked to speak to Toby . |
| 7 | I asked to speak to somebody in the Highways in the Transportation |
| 8 | I asked to come to Grendon , I did n't like it when i got here , it took a lot of getting used |
| 9 | I mean I read according to the paper this morning young people have got to have a |
| 10 | I sought to explain to him then and before that we not only need to sort out finance but to get on with distributing the food that they can grow , with the production of the food that they do not grow , and sort out their system of feeding the people . |
| 11 | ( I planned to return to Vancouver on the midnight ferry ) . |
| 12 | This emotion which , even as I planned to drive to Prague , while admitting only to liking you well enough to want to ease any problems that might arise , made me instruct Lubor … ’ |
| 13 | I was in there nearly three years , or two and a half years anyway and , of course , I when I passed to go to the Q M of course , I , I used to do the Headmaster 's and all that but they , they could n't teach me any more because you , you can only have the same lessons as them that have been taught you know . |
| 14 | They all went to the local comprehensive — which I wanted to but , because I passed my 11-plus I got sent to the grammar instead . |
| 15 | Dave , Lancashire region , on three nine seven , Chair , when I got elected to the Labour Council in Rochdale , I took a whip that I had , did what the policy was of the Rochdale D L P . |
| 16 | Erm , when I drew attention to this , one of the first things I did when I got elected to this council , erm , we get papers back which seem to suggest that in fact the Home Office are funding it at a level which , dare I say suggests that we might even make a small profit , er and I have in fact recently been approached by colleagues from Gloucestershire , asking us how we manage in that er , er exercise , because they 're concerned about the high cost of er , protection for certain royal establishments in their county . |
| 17 | I 'm the only one who 's ever been mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nine , taking numbers on polling stations and so on , and so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon . |
| 18 | And so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon . |
| 19 | In 1980 I got chatting to Stan Francourt , the caddie who was with me when I had the accident in 1973 . |
| 20 | I used to be a spooler , worked a machine , but I got moved to the samples about six years ago . |
| 21 | ‘ I got to talk to you , man , alone . ’ |
| 22 | I got to talk to you . |
| 23 | Since then my ( now ex- ) girlfriend was really good mates with the two of them cos she was in their year ( Yes I know I 'm a paedophile ) so that was how I got to go to their 18th birthday parties and Al 's leaving do . |
| 24 | I got to remember to be careful with the fire . |
| 25 | I got remanded to Holloway , which I did n't like . |
| 26 | ‘ But I got punched to pieces that night and the only reason I won the fight was that I could still keep going in the 12th round . |
| 27 | I got to react to him . |
| 28 | And then finally I got introduced to Bill Hartnell , and that really broke the ice . |
| 29 | But I got talking to one of them and he told me he 'd just come out of prison where he 'd done time for soliciting . |
| 30 | I got talking to a Faber editor I knew slightly . |