Example sentences of "[noun prp] go to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His response to the captain 's surprised question , 'so you came to Czechoslovakia to go to the football match , Professor ? " ( p. 71 ) is , initially , to violate the maxim of quality ( " Certainly not " ) and then to imply that this is not entirely the case by violating the maxims of quantity and relevance when he provides three excuses for not attending all the sessions of the Colloquium instead of admitting the truth . |
| 2 | Tremayne lent me his Volvo to go to the boatyard in the morning , reminding me before I set off that it was the day of the awards dinner at which he was to be honoured . |
| 3 | After much ‘ mickey-taking ’ , I informed every lady that I only bought one in order to get some change for Sue to go to the toilet ( 25p a time — whatever happened to the expression ‘ spending a penny ’ ) . |
| 4 | He also designed a bed that could be raised up and down and told Pat to go to the patent office with the plan which would make them both a fortune . |
| 5 | The time had come for Space Man Scott to go to the moon ! |
| 6 | Frowning , she added , ‘ What did Dad mean about David going to the house last night ? ’ |
| 7 | Jeff went to the psychiatrist and they start babbling on saying about the forty milligrams of valium he 's taking . |
| 8 | LAUREL and Hardy went to the seaside yesterday … and found the Tories looking washed up . |
| 9 | Ken went to the man 's flat before they were going out to dinner . |
| 10 | Toby went to the window to look down , then pulled his head back in , his face pale with fear . |
| 11 | The following week Sylvie went to the clinic in Pennsylvania . |
| 12 | Lucy went to the desk and opened the book . |
| 13 | Lucy went to the machine , turned back the tape , and the next instant Bill Martin 's voice floated into the office . |
| 14 | Lucy went to the machine and reversed the tape . |
| 15 | Portugal 's transport minister Joaquim Ferreira do Amaral and health minister Arlindo Carvalho went to the scene to supervise rescue operations and set up an inquiry . |
| 16 | ( Pete goes to the bar to get more drinks . |
| 17 | Andrew and Virginia watched numbly as Horatia went to the door , returning a moment or two later with a small boy with silver-gold hair and eyes the colour of aquamarines . |
| 18 | Rachaela went to the desk . |
| 19 | Rachaela went to the door in a towel , and with a second towel wrapped round her head . |
| 20 | Rachaela went to the table . |
| 21 | Pete went to the refrigerator , took out a beer , and then carried it along with a kitchen chair out onto the porch . |
| 22 | Léonie went to the orchard to pick some vine leaves . |
| 23 | They had a routine for it , as most couples do — Annie put the fuel in , Tessa took some paper towels from the dispenser and cleaned the windscreen ; then Tessa went to the pay-window and handed over a credit card as soon as Annie put the pump nozzle back into position . |
| 24 | ‘ Simon went to the length of telling all those lies in order to try and thumb his nose at me ? ’ he protested . |
| 25 | Ginny went to the funeral . ’ |
| 26 | Oh , did n't Christopher go to the library ? |
| 27 | Dennis Hopper went to the meeting with Manson and sat face to face with him for two hours in a room on the eighth floor of the Hall of Justice . |
| 28 | Scathach went to the gate and made sure it was firmly closed . |
| 29 | Maggie went to the room Paddy had rented for nigh on sixteen years , the only room in the tall lodging house that did n't accommodate more than one family . |
| 30 | Munro went to the window and looked out . |