Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] go [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose the night porter has gone through to the kitchen to make a sandwich . |
| 2 | My mind kept going back to the case that was nothing to do with me , the unsolved mystery of the man with a load of live ammunition in his pockets found dead on the Thames mud . |
| 3 | Back inside , Rafiq had gone back to the thousand-dollar question . |
| 4 | Maisie had gone round to the passenger door of the Volkswagen and was standing , one hand poised to open it as soon as Henry should unlock it . |
| 5 | The actor who played Dirty Den in Eastenders has gone back to the prison where he was once an inmate . |
| 6 | Fenella had gone back to the bed-chamber and pulled on her boots and found the warm woollen cloak she had brought from Renascia while Caspar had raided the sculleries and packed the maps . |
| 7 | In 1914 the art schools had all but atrophied ; the models had gone off to the munitions factories , and students had been replaced by retired businessmen seeking distraction from their troubles . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , because he had had a source of comfort , the moment Ellie left to go back to the house his mournful howls increased in volume . |
| 9 | Pete 's gone down to the shop and got yourself a bottle whisky . |
| 10 | Prean , still unbeaten , showed that he is performing as well as at any time in his career when he outplayed Andrei up to 20-17 in the second game and then comfortably recovered from the disappointment of missing four match points to go on to a 21-8 , 22-24 , 21-13 win . |
| 11 | Having escorted Felicity Suvarov around St Mark 's cathedral , Julia had gone back to the Danieli hotel and shared some lunch with her . |
| 12 | If then Regulation 5 is amenable to review so as to remove the compulsion upon the employee to transfer , whilst leaving the compulsion upon the employer in place , then the employee will indeed have a right to refuse to go over to the transferee , at least until such time as the government recasts the law . |
| 13 | Theda had gone down to the housekeeper , tight-lipped and curt , to ask that these things be remedied forthwith . |
| 14 | Conservationists have gone back to an ancient method of catching ducks , using a dog to lure the birds into a net . |
| 15 | Thank you very much I think er councillor said that in er Tory erm motions goes against er Conservative er national policy but what it does identify is a very worrying sub text to the Tory policies of the moment because w means testing for hou for housing welfare has gone back to the worst aspects of the nineteen thirties politics basically . |
| 16 | The delay necessitated going back to the trough for a third-round of venture capital after going through the $12m brought in by the first two rounds . |
| 17 | Glowing with hope , Hank had gone back to the garage and pruned and polished . |
| 18 | These cottage front doors were never used — some even had rows of flowerpots across the sill as a deterrent — and Anna had to go round to the back to find a resting place for the magazine . |
| 19 | People had gone up to a house and been knocking on the door waiting for someone to come because the light had come on and they thought there must be somebody in because they switched the light on when they saw me come up the drive , and these are visitors . |
| 20 | Other imbibers have gone over to the dark side of beer , rejecting the pasteurised lager produced by the breweries . |
| 21 | The Government has gone back to the Appeal COurt tonight in a second attempt to stop Central Television screening the first filmed interview with mass murderer Dennis Nilsen . |
| 22 | As might be expected , how useful the process of review is in proposing changes , and the extent to which teachers favoured going on to a second round of the scheme are both significant , those thinking that it is very or fairly useful being slightly positive and those thinking it not very or not at all useful , being slightly negative . |
| 23 | He left me to become acquainted with the religious environment , and then handed me a paperback entitled Modern Buddhism in Burma , which he had edited in cooperation with Kenneth Saunders , warden of the YMCA hostel , and already a translator of the Dhamma-pada , a collection of short sayings thought to go back to the Buddha . |
| 24 | Twenty-five years after the war ended a man had gone in to the shop and been told that his treasure was studded with spinels instead of rubies . |
| 25 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 26 | The jackets had to go back to the sweatshop , making for an unnecessary and annoying delay . |
| 27 | Hoxha 's statue was pulled down , and there were clashes with police in which up to 20 people were injured according to opposition sources , although eyewitness reports said also that some members of the security forces had gone over to the side of the demonstrators . |
| 28 | But Steve had gone back to the match , his face rigid with anticipation . |
| 29 | Ritchie 's Eighth Army had gone over to the offensive and Rommel was in retreat towards Agheila . |
| 30 | Other leaders have gone over to the Anaheim Vineyard for training . |