Example sentences of "i [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Jesus told me to go to France . |
| 2 | He used to call for me to go to school , and that could be an eventful journey because the way led through the Sayers ' farm at West New Houses , and they kept a flock of geese and a bull . |
| 3 | He aimed for me to go to school but brass he could n't pay , |
| 4 | And we 'd seen photographs of these and they were marvellous , and he said to me , I should like to see these fl these flats , he said er , I 'm gon na convince the Board that it 's necessary in the interests of the firm for me to go to Austria , you see . |
| 5 | Hard to explain the conflict in our acquaintance , but perhaps I had an instinctive feeling that she , in fact , wanted me to go to bed with her , and she knew I would n't — because if I did make love to her , it would be a victory for her and a defeat for me . |
| 6 | eyes on before and when it was time for me to go to bed I would be encouraged not made |
| 7 | Deep safe water was a dark royal blue , while over a coral reef the sea shaded to green or , when perilously shallow , to brown , and Thessy , peering ahead , would shout at me to go to port or starboard , or even to go backwards as fast as the motors would catch hold . |
| 8 | That 's because he do n't want me to go to work . |
| 9 | I think life is easier for me than it would be for a lot of working women because of the university creche , which enables me to go to work and sort of see my daughter at lunch time , that sort of thing . |
| 10 | ‘ You want me to go to Paris with you as your girlfriend ? |
| 11 | How do you expect me to go to sleep after you 've told me something like that ? |
| 12 | ‘ Do you want me to go to Mons ? ’ |
| 13 | My father and Elizabeth did not want me to go to England alone , because I had been so ill . |
| 14 | When the Abwehr recruited me to go to Ireland in forty-one I did the usual radio and Morse code course . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I was at Queen Eleanor 's and they urged me to go to university , but I wanted to be independent , so I came into the Met . ’ |
| 16 | If that 's what they want for me , Benny asked herself , why on God 's earth are they allowing me to go to university ? |
| 17 | The time came for me to go to university . |
| 18 | ‘ My parents will never allow me to go to Verona , ’ I answered . |
| 19 | Instead he said , ‘ You said you wanted me to go to Lisbon tomorrow , Reichsführer . |
| 20 | ‘ You always wanted me to go to parties . |
| 21 | Allow me to go to perdition in my own fashion ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I just want to know whether you want me to go to Mr. Moulton 's funeral with you . ’ |
| 23 | Whenever I went to Fisherton Street it was a must for me to go to Pickfords , the carriers for The Great Western Railway , just to gaze in the window , for right in the centre was a beautiful scale model of one of their pantechnicons , some two feet in length . |
| 24 | A man I do not wish to write for wants me to go to Vientiane , where virgins are $10 a go , and a woman I do wish to write for says it would never work because she is emotionally involved with me . |
| 25 | ‘ I do not accept that David Trippier is supporting the action of the trade unions , or is asking me to go to arbitration , or expects that the management , having made a final offer , should move from that final offer . ’ |
| 26 | Anyway , Nick was pleased enough to ask me to go to Madrid and caddie for him . |
| 27 | ‘ Jim Smith persuaded me to go to Newcastle , but he left within a couple of days . |
| 28 | Er , so you can say that er Mr is a friend of pensioner 's , he said , he said he would be prepared to , what I , I , I approached him and said er , what about Harlow Caring Council , are they prepared to assist the pensioners in any way or do they wish to join in on this , oh yes he said , of course Norman he said , how much are you paying er Ron I said well his asking forty pound for the , for the morning , oh he said I 'll go half way with that , then he came out and said to me , pull me up afterwards and ask me to go to leisure services about the Tuesday , and so I 'm still following that up and hopefully we will have two days on pensioner 's week , because you want to have as much impact as possible and in a few moments , when I nearly finished here , I shall be reading you something where you 'll see that it is important that we make an impact on the people of Harlow . |
| 29 | ‘ Do you want me to see to C.W. and Sabrina ? ’ |
| 30 | But here he had to leave me to attend to stores which were being brought on board , and some twenty minutes later I could see the place for myself . |