Example sentences of "went [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having drunk my first afternoon coffee with Sheikha Grandmother I went to greet the Sheikha . |
| 2 | Arthur went to confirm the booking , and gather furniture for us . |
| 3 | Next day Elspeth went to mount the horse again , but this time she was chatting to a friend instead of listening to the horse . |
| 4 | She says : ‘ When I went to arrange the AA insurance for the car they offered me a policy for us as well and , thank goodness , I decided to take it . ’ |
| 5 | She claimed that one of them went to headbutt the man . |
| 6 | By contrast , here is a comment by an anthropologist who went to see the work of Mark Rothko . |
| 7 | Allen , who has missed the last four games , said : ‘ I must admit I was a little concerned and went to see the same specialist that did the operation on my groin before . |
| 8 | He went to see the Bishop of Durham , who gave him tea . |
| 9 | On 8 April 1952 the patronage secretary went to see the Archbishop of York . |
| 10 | When I went to see the family , the mother was very rational and calm and the girl told me : ‘ there must be millions like me , Mrs Kazi . |
| 11 | I went to see the proposed route of the M40 in my time as Transport Minister , but the full motorway was not opened until 1991 . |
| 12 | I spent the next few days talking to Cabinet colleagues — all of whom shared my view that the demand was preposterous — and then went to see the Prime Minister . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll bet it was that woman who went to see the house after us yesterday . |
| 14 | NEXT day I took the advice I had been given by my friends at the Union and went to see the exhibition of the Bibliotheca Corviniana in the National Library on Castle Hill , partly because Matthias I , or Matthias Hunyadi , known as Corvinus because of the crow motif on his banners , was one of the most striking and decisive characters in East European history , straddling the histories of Transylvania , Hungary , Bohemia and Austria . |
| 15 | When I went to see the director of Albanian radio and television , I tried to describe the difference in atmosphere between a British and an Albanian election campaign . |
| 16 | Mark Twain , for example , who went to see the Great Exhibition of 1867 , wrote : ‘ ( I saw ) Napoleon in military uniform — long-bodied , short-legged man , fiercely moustached , old , wrinkled , with eyes half-closed and such a deep crafty scheming expression about them . ’ |
| 17 | During their time in London , which was a happy one , he and Grace went to see the Diaghilev Ballet and also Pavlova 's company . |
| 18 | I went to see the Minister who had come to help Rev Kenneth who now had duties in other parts of London . |
| 19 | The same year Wolverton Parish Council went to see the Brigade alerted . |
| 20 | We also went to see the Museo do Pobo Galego , which has fascinating exhibits on rural life , including horréos or granaries , which are found in almost every country garden and look like a stone garden shed on stilts . |
| 21 | I went to see the event in August 1984 . |
| 22 | ‘ I went to see The Byrds play back in ‘ 68 or ‘ 69 , with Clarence White on guitar , ’ Sonny explains . |
| 23 | In order to try and get a ‘ Northern English accent ’ , Dustin went to see the Beatles in A Hard Day 's Night about a dozen times determined to ‘ sound like those guys ’ . |
| 24 | Nichols went to see the play a second time , then a call went out to Dustin 's agent , and arrangements were made to fly the actor out to his home town for a screen test . |
| 25 | The next day I went to see the military commander to ask for permission to stay on to look after stray people and perhaps give pastoral care to the officials and troops left in the city . |
| 26 | ‘ I was living in a council flat with two young children and I went to see the housing boss , which was him , to ask for a bigger place . |
| 27 | I went to see the stewards , who said it was a sporting accident . |
| 28 | At the end of April 1973 I went to see the King of Morocco to tell him about a plot to kill him . |
| 29 | While Julie was still in hospital after Maisie was born , Grant went to see the film Buster in which Julie played Great Train Robber Buster Edward 's wife . |
| 30 | I went to see The Wild One many many years ago when I was thinking about becoming an actor and thinking maybe it was a bit of a poofy thing to do , and Marlon Brando was standing in front of this juke box and he had ‘ New York Rebels ’ on the back of his leather jacket and this girl came up and said , ‘ What are you rebelling against , Johnny ? ’ and he says ‘ What have you got ? ’ and I thought , ‘ Yeah , that 's my man , I 'll do that . ’ |