Example sentences of "had gone to [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had gone to a convalescent home in Bournemouth . |
| 2 | After leaving the letter in a drawer she had gone to a nearby town and booked in at a hotel . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It came to focus on a headhunting approach to find this talent , not necessarily people who had gone to the right schools and universities . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Peter had gone to the New End PCC meeting . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He should go to the public source and get it : or , at any rate , not be in a better position than if he had gone to the public source . |
| 11 | Janine , stunned , had gone to the little girl sitting on the crate . |
| 12 | Driving along the Quay , Lucy thought about that morning when she had gone to the little bistro on the Place de Trainant to find Volkov . |
| 13 | The court heard that her husband had become suspicious early last year and had gone to the National Westminster bank asking them not to release any further cheque books . |
| 14 | These offers were meant to demonstrate that the two younger brothers had gone to the very limit of reasonable concessions , and hence would bear no guilt for the casualties of battle . |
| 15 | Everyone had gone to the 18th green . |
| 16 | After he and Anne had gone to the Red Cross centre to help comfort some of his neighbours , he told a friend , ‘ Thank God , I 'm not poor ! ’ |
| 17 | He cared enough about his loathsome , drunken and violent third wife , Mayo Methot , not to leave her until he knew she had gone to the furthest extremes to try and cure herself of the alcoholism that threatened to ruin both their lives . |
| 18 | The man had gone to the local authority to get a letter stating he was fit to have custody of children . |
| 19 | Going to grammar school really made me isolated It was only a couple of miles away from where I lived but that 's a long way when you 're only 11 — years-old and all your mates from junior school had gone to the local comprehensive round the corner . |
| 20 | It also meant that Leo had gone to an awful lot of trouble on her behalf . |