Example sentences of "[vb past] to go [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kyffin Williams never intended to be a painter , he planned to go into the army but was rejected on medical grounds . |
| 2 | ‘ One of them asked to go to the lavatory . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was noticeable that Celia no longer asked to go to the sea although , by that time , the weather had changed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He was given a scan at the hospital 's radiology department and once his treatment was finished he asked to go to the toilet . |
| 8 | ‘ First he asked to go to the toilet . |
| 9 | Srnicek , in for injured Tommy Wright , asked to go on the list last season because his family were desperately unhappy in England . |
| 10 | Yes , I , I was in er , I 'm not sure , I , I think I was in the top class in the junior school and er , without boasting , I was a good scholar and I eventually passed to go to the Q M and me dad could n't afford to let me go . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Ca n't do the ship cos it wi , got to go on the bench in the garage . |
| 13 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
| 14 | Oh aye he applied to go to the Gulf . |
| 15 | But they also wanted a lift into town and we agreed to go to the Hard Rock Café in Honolulu together that night . |
| 16 | Dexter agreed to go to the hospital and find out what he could . |
| 17 | She finally agreed to go to the most expensive Chinese restaurant in town with him . |
| 18 | Despite intensive pressure to resign in the aftermath of the serious rioting of late April and early May — itself a product of the acquittal of those officers accused of assaulting King — and police failings which the unrest revealed [ see pp. 38856 ; 38894 ] , King continued to prevaricate until June 8 when he finally agreed to go at the end of the month . |
| 19 | But in the end she agreed to go with the Pitts to the local police station to express concern about the absentees . |
| 20 | Ajdabiyans expected to go to the polls in the winter of 1978–9 , and in anticipation their political activists had drawn up two lists of candidates for each of the fifteen popular committees . |
| 21 | ‘ I made to go down the stairs to see what was happening . |
| 22 | I could not forget how the village people had hurt me when I tried to go into the house there . |
| 23 | And I , foolish man , felt so rebuffed that I hardly ever tried to go through the barriers . |
| 24 | Well tried to go across the road and get get a bit of shopping . |
| 25 | A friend who tried to go to the man 's aid had to be held back . |
| 26 | I tried to go to the ladies ' room . |
| 27 | ‘ I tried to go over the fiction I 'd done , pull out the subtext and put it in a form that you could give to an audience at a world 's fair at the end of the century . |
| 28 | ‘ A couple of blokes tried to go over the wall about a year ago . |
| 29 | he tried to go out the door but she reached him back , but she has n't |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , Mummy , I promised to go to the common and play rounders with Ann and Ruth . ’ |