Example sentences of "have gone to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Gentleman is also mistaken because he has ignored the fact that in the past three years alone , £10 million of Department of Trade and Industry money has gone to the assisted area in west Cornwall . |
| 2 | The very small constituency of Westminster Grey Coat Hospital School has gone to the Liberal Democrats . |
| 3 | IBM Corp has gone to the Distributed Computing Solutions arm of General Atomics Inc , San Diego for its UniTree file and storage management software ‘ for use and distribution on the entire line of IBM computers , ’ although it seems likely that it will be confined to running under Unix for now . |
| 4 | Dynafit has gone to the Swiss boot company Raichle and Kastle is currently for sale . |
| 5 | The losses for the bottom 50% average out at nearly £8.50 per family … while the top 10% have gained nearly £40 per family … the bottom half of the population has lost £6.6 billion , of which £5.6 billion has gone to the top 10% ; indeed –4. – billion has gone to the top 5% . |
| 6 | The losses for the bottom 50% average out at nearly £8.50 per family … while the top 10% have gained nearly £40 per family … the bottom half of the population has lost £6.6 billion , of which £5.6 billion has gone to the top 10% ; indeed –4. – billion has gone to the top 5% . |
| 7 | Over 70 per cent has moved under Title I , concessional sales , of which 80 per cent has gone to the Third World , representing almost one-third of total US direct aid to them . |
| 8 | A convicted armed robber has gone to the High Court in Edinburgh to ask that special legal powers be used to re-examine his case . |
| 9 | Among the items saved was a portrait of Lord Liverpool by Sir Thomas Lawrence , which did not appear in the catalogue and which has gone to the National Portrait Gallery . |
| 10 | Ben had been nine when he 'd gone to the same school , he reminded her . |
| 11 | You know when we came back the next Saturday as we 've gone through the front door , he 'd gone to the Little Chef for breakfast because there were n't any crocks left to u , to use |
| 12 | The last time she and Arnie had eaten out they 'd gone to the local curry house where they went about four times a year . |
| 13 | She laughed happily , remembering the pains she 'd gone to the previous evening . |
| 14 | The few Communists , Fascist and Stop-the War candidates who ignored the truce were badly defeated until towards the end of the war when the newly formed Commonwealth began to win seats which might otherwise have gone to the Labour Party . |
| 15 | They divided local government services in such a way that most of the major services including education , major planning , personal social services and housing would have gone to the regional authorities while the districts would have been left with minor aspects of these services and certain amenity services . |
| 16 | This was important to the early Christians because they faced the charges that Jesus was not really dead when he was taken down from the cross and that , even if he was , the women could have gone to the wrong tomb on the Sunday morning . |
| 17 | Local authorities were totally excluded from the activities of the UDCs and some of the government finance which might otherwise have gone to the local authorities was diverted to UDCs . |
| 18 | ‘ They say you should have gone to the very top in the army after the war but you were stopped . |
| 19 | I should have gone to the French police at the time , but I did n't , and now the evidence has gone . |
| 20 | You could pick up a seat by knowing the right people , having gone to the right school or being thought to be worth a few thousand — almost the first question put to the prospective MP for Richmond , Sir George Harvie-Watt , when he went up before the local selection committee in 1937 was whether he would subscribe £700 to the local association . |
| 21 | ‘ Then we 've gone to the good place . |
| 22 | ‘ My guess is they 've gone to the other house , ’ he said quickly . |
| 23 | I 've gone to the local Council and er unfortunately they 've said to me that I 'd have to go on a waiting list ; the housing aid have said the only thing they could offer me is bed and breakfast which I 'm sorry to say I do n't think is suitable to bring two children up in . |
| 24 | The main problem with MI6 at the time was that all the senior people were amateurs who had joined MI6 only because they had gone to the right school , wore the right sort of tie and dined at the right clubs . |
| 25 | It came to focus on a headhunting approach to find this talent , not necessarily people who had gone to the right schools and universities . |
| 26 | As well as acting as a surrogate mum to the hedgehogs , Christine has also given physiotherapy to tortoises and given the kiss of life to a pet rabbit , which everyone thought had gone to the great hutch in the sky . |
| 27 | Peter had gone to the New End PCC meeting . |
| 28 | In fact , within two years I had gone to the other extreme , washing shorts for lads who were old enough to do it for themselves , and baking cakes for the sole purpose of giving them away . |
| 29 | Cecilia turned somewhat fearfully back and saw that the man and the bear had gone to the far end of the coach where a woman not much younger than herself sat alone . |
| 30 | Fran exchanged pleasantries with her , curbing her impatience before finally asking if she knew where Luke had gone , and went weak with relief when the other woman informed her that he had gone to the old college . |