Example sentences of "gone to [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had gone to a convalescent home in Bournemouth . |
| 2 | Ace appeared to have gone to a great deal of trouble to make this place so pretty and welcoming . |
| 3 | The tickets already sold have gone to an established network of football fans , Rothenberg said . |
| 4 | It also meant that Leo had gone to an awful lot of trouble on her behalf . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Cross-references to this appendix are given by italic numbers , ( eg 16 ) From Joseph Conrad , The Secret Sharer On my right hand there were lines of fishing-stakes resembling a mysterious system of half-submerged bamboo fences , incomprehensible in its division of the domain of tropical fishes , and crazy of aspect as if abandoned forever by some nomad tribe of fishermen now gone to the other end of the ocean ; for there was no sign of human habitation as far as the eye could reach ( 1 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ They say you should have gone to the very top in the army after the war but you were stopped . |
| 10 | Counsel for the prosecution invited the jury to decide between the suggestion that the officer had ‘ gone to the very depth of deceit ’ by imposing his attention on the woman or whether she had made ‘ a wicked and false allegation ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | K. R. Whenever they had a raid on the Chinese gambling , they took them all in the cells and they all sent out for Chinese meals , and when they 'd all gone to the Main Bridewell in the middle of the night — ‘ 125 , scrub out ! ’ — and I had to take my tunic off and scrub out after the Chinese had been . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I should have gone to the French police at the time , but I did n't , and now the evidence has gone . |