Example sentences of "[vb past] go [adv prt] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 We filled that and while they were eating that we kept the hay , hay , cut it through a rick , a big thin knife , you know , fill the remainder of the racks with the hay , so that by the time they 'd gone and finished that they 'd gone in to eat the hay , then we 'd got the yard free to litter it out , and to straw it on both sides , one would be on the , one down on the bottom to pull straw down into the yard , and that was .
2 I had n't been feeling too well all day , but after opening-time when Toby 'd gone out to get the wine I started to feel better and began to dress .
3 Trouble was , Sidney decided to go back to get the sentry 's rifle , obviously thinking it might come in useful .
4 That is , while they did not start courses at the institutions we studied , they did go on to take a course elsewhere .
5 Nutty had gone up to have a nose , sat behind the oil-drum stack early and seen him leave .
6 Edward had gone off to see an editor at the BBC ; he wanted to talk about a project on the Third World , and the boy was at school .
7 What kind of a warning he could n't say , but his family noticed with alarm that he had gone out to consult the tree again .
8 Capricious and Lothian , two of the flotilla 's escort frigates , swung at their buoys , which could only mean that the Jan Mayen had gone out to bring the submarine in .
9 Though entirely English on both sides of his family , he was born in Buenos Aires in 1907 , where his father had gone out to establish a branch of Unilever .
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