Example sentences of "went [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the following April John II , fearing that the dauphin , Charles , who was duke of Normandy , was plotting against him with members of the Navarrese party and others , went secretly to Rouen and , as the dauphin was entertaining his guests to dinner , arrested some and had them led away to immediate execution . |
| 2 | Again and again , Dorian Gray went secretly to the room and looked first at the ugly and terrible face in the picture , then at the beautiful young face that laughed back at him from the mirror . |
| 3 | He would have been the first non-Scandinavian to star in a Bergman film , an honour which went eventually to the more laid-back Elliott Gould . |
| 4 | IN her article on car recycling , Liz Moore claimed that in the Eighties , scapped cars went eventually to landfill sites . |
| 5 | Truman 's decision not to stand left open the Democratic nomination , which went eventually to Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois . |
| 6 | His glance went appreciatively to Lindsey , who felt herself blush . |
| 7 | She went slowly to the refrigerator , took out a block of ice cream , cut three slices off it and put them into glass dishes , then plonked the dishes on the table , during which time a new idea came to her . |
| 8 | Carolyn went slowly to the bedroom . |
| 9 | So when her doorbell rang , she went thankfully to the door to let in her expected visitor . |
| 10 | But Lady Thatcher , who is flying back to Britain from the United States , is apparently unaware yet that she will also be invited to give evidence about the affair which , according to one MP , ‘ went right to the heart of Government ’ when she was in power . |
| 11 | and I went right to there . |
| 12 | Her sense of discipleship went right to the root of her being . |
| 13 | The threat was enough to have Maggie drinking swiftly , and it went right to her head . |
| 14 | I had one chap who worked for me for over two years without one accident , did n't scratch anything , did everything right , he was a wonderful conscientious man , and then one day he was carrying a big box containing some expensive crockery and he tripped on the top step of the stairs and the lot went down , the whole box went right to the bottom . |
| 15 | My right hand went instinctively to my sword , thus to force a way through the crowd and take my rightful place . |
| 16 | Although Mannaia were the largest single group of committee members , most of them ( about two thirds ) were from Tazarbu and from lineages not associated with the struggle.s Moreover , the more important policy and spending chairmanships went mostly to people from this group or to Jlulat . |
| 17 | The UK 's exports went mostly to the low tariff countries of the market , which would raise tariffs on British goods and abolish tariffs on all goods from their partners . |
| 18 | As they were phased out of first line units Londons went mostly to 4 Coastal Operational Training Unit , but a few passed to the Flying-Boat Training Squadron ( FBTS ) at Stranraer . |
| 19 | Well , good luck to him ! she fumed , as she shot from the bed , collected her toilet-bag and night attire and went furiously to the bathroom to take a shower . |
| 20 | Austen Chamberlain , the second man in the Government , went rarely to Chequers and never to Astley . |
| 21 | I went below to the cabin where there were empty bottles on the floor and tobacco smoke filled the air . |
| 22 | The one on the right went only to sealed-off sections of corridor on each floor , where any interlopers who had managed to get that far would be fobbed off with further charades designed to conceal the true function of the building . |
| 23 | As it was I just sat there fuming with frustration , gabbled one senseless sentence and went swiftly to where charity is supposed to begin , muttering ‘ Never again' all the way , but omitting to add ‘ till the next time ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ Goodnight , ’ she answered , and went swiftly to her room , to spend some minutes leaning against the door with a dreamy smile on her face . |
| 25 | I went oftener to Uncle Geordie 's by that time and sometimes I missed Uncle Bill if he came to see Dad and Ma on a Saturday night . |
| 26 | They saw fewer Satyajit Ray films now , and went less to Indian restaurants ; Eva gave up learning Urdu and listening to sitar music at breakfast . |
| 27 | They signed up for the same courses and joined the same societies ; they sat together in seminars and went together to the National Film Theatre ; they had sex together and moved together into a one-roomed flat in their second year . |
| 28 | We went together to Lantau , and travelled on a really hair-raising bus journey to a Buddhist monastery in the mountains . |
| 29 | When at last the work was finished , Mina and Kāli packed a basket with some clean clothes and went together to the stream to wash . |
| 30 | We went together to the yard of an old man who bred worms for fishermen and bought a jarful for M. Bluot . |