Example sentences of "went [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have an eye-witness who heard him when he went to preach at Easington colliery to a large congregation of miners and their families , who felt that he himself and the other hearers were electrified . |
| 2 | Minutes later , Jack went to sit at his stepfather 's bedside in a private ward . |
| 3 | His two strange secretaries slid into the room and , without a flicker of a glance at us , went to sit at another table . |
| 4 | Pouring out the coffee with a shaking hand , adding milk and sugar , she went to sit at the table . |
| 5 | The sequence of landing was planned to put the raiders ashore in a fighting formation , and although all went to plan at Stamsund , indiscipline among boats ' crews would on other occasions cause difficulties for commandos landed late or ahead of their supporting Troops . |
| 6 | The settling blow was delivered by Archbishop Garbett , whom on the Friday Ramsey went to see at York . |
| 7 | ‘ St Louis Music was one of the companies I went to see at that time , and it felt like Ampeg , especially , was home for me . |
| 8 | Like that deep trog of a bank manager I went to see at the end of my first term at university . |
| 9 | Absolutely , I went to see at , we had to trouble at , not of our supporters |
| 10 | Well on the basis of what was told by the guy she went to see at who was the key account manager |
| 11 | He resigned from Whitefield 's and intended to resign from Parliament , and went to lecture at Yale University on ‘ The Romance of Preaching ’ . |
| 12 | He did not , but went to stand at the window , looking out . |
| 13 | Pushing roughly past him , she went to stand at the window , her back to him . |
| 14 | Luke pushed back his chair impatiently and went to stand at the window , looking down , his back towards her . |
| 15 | Would he ever have got to the Olympics if every time he went to train at his local track he got swamped by the waste from a few thousand local toilets ? |
| 16 | He then went to look at some property left to the council by a benefactor , an old grain warehouse . |
| 17 | Ludens went to look at Irina who was on her knees rummaging in a pile of clothes which now covered the floor of the bedroom . |
| 18 | We went to look at her grave . ’ |
| 19 | Hoomey went to look at Bones , thoughtfully . |
| 20 | Who , she wondered , as she went to look at the kitchen , had kept the house in such perfect order ? |
| 21 | When he went to look at Anna before going to school her eyes were once more as blue as the sky , and she curled her fingers round his as if she did n't want to let him go . |
| 22 | The whole train stopped while he jumped down from the dome car and went to look at the laggard . |
| 23 | Such was my astonishment that I stopped kicking the offending mouse and at the first opportunity went to look at the hedgerow . |
| 24 | They went to look at the jewellery piled on a table on the far side of the courtyard . |
| 25 | After luncheon we went to look at some watercolours in which she is interested at Agnew 's , in Bond Street . |
| 26 | In the United States , whale-watching is big business : 3.25m people went to look at whales in 1991 , bringing in revenues of nearly $100m . |
| 27 | I returned to Russia recently with my dear friend Ashkenazy and we went to look at the Central School of Music in Moscow , our educational base for so many years , and there it is , a sorry sight of rubble , locked doors and broken windows . |
| 28 | Jarvis wandered about the world as young people do , but instead of driving a van to India or observing political upheaval in Central America or getting into trouble in Africa he went to look at metro systems . |
| 29 | He went to look at the ricks again . |
| 30 | One problem that has cropped up when trying to turn zoos into arks is that a lot of the exhibits are leftovers from the days when zoos were unashamedly places where people went to look at exotic animals . |