Example sentences of "went [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again and again he swiped at Chloe , but she remained convinced that this was a game and every time her friend approached she darted away and went to sit somewhere else in the clearing , her tail brushing the ground frantically . |
| 2 | She often went to sit quietly beside the hives , in the bee-field or on the moor . |
| 3 | She went to sit stiffly in the stern as they nosed cautiously out through the ranks of yachts , and then through the litter of fishing-boats , the bright Phoenician ‘ Eye of Osiris ’ painted on their bows , superstitiously warding off evil . |
| 4 | Jenny paid and we went to sit down . |
| 5 | Dad flushed and let go of me and went to sit down again . |
| 6 | After a long pause , Roman turned away from her , and went to sit down behind his desk . |
| 7 | He put the journal on Alexandra 's lap and went to sit down in the chair beside hers . |
| 8 | So he went to sit down but his chair were n't there . |
| 9 | No wonder our Tone went to sit down which he do n't usually do . |
| 10 | The rest of the day went to plan apart from the groom having to cut the wedding cake with a chainsaw but that 's another story . |
| 11 | When Frankenberg went to carry out anthropological research in a village on the Welsh borders in the early 1950s he found that the village football team provided ‘ a symbol of village unity and cohesion against the outside world ’ and had ‘ a central place in village social activity ’ . |
| 12 | Er went to nurse so I lent him bike . |
| 13 | cos it was n't Sunderland that he went to see when he got the ticket the last time . |
| 14 | I went to see where , she puts lollipop in school like and I went to see exactly she 's supposed to start at quarter to twelve so I went round there for quarter to twelve about five past twelve when she , it 's like yours . |
| 15 | I went to see where , she puts lollipop in school like and I went to see exactly she 's supposed to start at quarter to twelve so I went round there for quarter to twelve about five past twelve when she , it 's like yours . |
| 16 | Went to see Forever Young with Mel Gibson , the one where he 's frozen for fifty years and then he wakes up in |
| 17 | While ‘ The Prophet ’ was asleep , a violent rainstorm swept across the countryside but when it ended and the farmer went to see how the fugitive minister had fared , he found that , miraculously , an area around the sleeping man had been left untouched by the rain . |
| 18 | After an hour he went to see how she was doing , and to see if she needed anything . |
| 19 | Halfway through the afternoon I went to see how the lakeside revetment was going . |
| 20 | Actually , that sow Sandra only went to see how we were doing in the rat-race compared to her contemporaries . |
| 21 | Mark Kiff went to see how they fared . |
| 22 | Well you know where Penny 's old desk were , where she sat looking up towards the , and Jenny sat there and Joan sat there , this Janet was sitting there and on that Friday morning when the phone had rung , well I got up and I went to go upstairs to take something or a fax coming for me or something , and as I went past Lynnette hit me on my shoulder and she said it 's me Pat , Pat she said it 's me , oh Pat I said what 's , what 's going on ? |
| 23 | They 'd hit right on the corner of the stable and er me dad went to go out . |
| 24 | It 's just and it 's so , it 's like it was raining the other day when we went to go out and just could not be bothered . |
| 25 | She went to cringe back from him but stilled as he started to unbutton his shirt . |
| 26 | Nutty went to round up the others with the good news and returned to find their new trainer surrounded by an admiring crowd . |
| 27 | Hari left the boy while she went to search upstairs for one of her father 's night-shirts . |
| 28 | Father 's parting present to us was a beautiful large lobster he and one of the boys had brought home when they went to pull up their lobster pots . |
| 29 | Tom went to pull off his vest . |
| 30 | Her eyes linked them until she went to pull together the curtains she knew very well had never met properly . |