Example sentences of "went [adv prt] to france " in BNC.
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1 | She went to England in her teens ( 1917 ) to work under the dark genius of Sickert , and from him went on to France , where first , and briefly , she learnt from Andere Lhote , and then commenced a lifetime study with and under Albert Gleizes . |
2 | With the money I 'd saved I went over to France , going straight to where she was staying in Tours . |
3 | In 1978 , I went over to France for the final day of the parliamentary elections , expecting to stay up for most of the night as one would in the UK . |
4 | Anyway , Reverend William Lee , his son and his brother , went over to France to see if Henry , King Henry of France could help him er but before he could get through to the court there King Henry died and then William Lee died without seeing his machine come to any sort of commercial fruition . |
5 | And every so often erm the British look at this with a rather interested eye , and you 'll find that erm Parliamentary committees erm there was one on the British Civil Service about two years , three years ago , nineteen seventy-seven , they went over to France to have a look at how the French did this to see if they could learn anything from the French experience , but in fact it 's very difficult to transport somebody else 's experience , lock , stock and barrel , into the British situation , and they quite sensibly concluded this would n't be a good idea . |
6 | He went off to France , where , as Master of the Dykes for Henry IV , he supervised the draining of the great Poitevin marshes north of La Rochelle . |
7 | He went off to France . ’ |
8 | Paul Crossland went off to France with the money . |
9 | She said , no you write and he 'll , she 'll write back , you see but , and he went out to France and he was killed in three months and and his name , so they told me was on the er , on the board at er . |
10 | Aye er and er I got to the now on the and steamers go so far up , past Le Havre at the mouth Le Havre we disembarked when we went out to France first time and we took guns and all sorts . |
11 | ‘ He went back to France then six months later he arrived at my house on a Harley Davidson , dressed head to toe in leathers . |
12 | They went back to France which was already part of the Roman Empire . |