Example sentences of "gone to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | As he waited for a colleague delivering mail to Mr Reenan 's £300,000 Oxfordshire home , Ron said : ‘ One minute he 's talking about going to Diana , the next he 's gone to a newspaper . |
2 | Kate 's social worker organised nursery places for her two small children while she did her A-levels , and she has subsequently gone to a university where she can get creche facilities . |
3 | His parents thought he 'd gone to a friend 's house in the next street . |
4 | And she might have gone to a specialist to have it diagnosed . |
5 | We could almost have forgotten about the war but for the shell-holes in the surrounding downland , stark white chalk amid the tawny grass , the result of gunnery practice on the artillery and tank ranges at Tidworth , Bulford , and at Larkhill , where I remembered Leslie had gone to a firing camp all those months ago . |
6 | No , he 's gone to a play at the college and a yeah I was er like when I realised that had come on I thought does he know ? |
7 | This is believed to be the first time that an attempt has been made to compile a complete statistical record of Soviet economic development assistance to the less developed countries since it started on a formal basis in 1954 ; by 1983 such assistance had gone to a total of 57 countries . |
8 | However , on the advice of an acquaintance , she had gone to a clinic in Pennsylvania : she retired there periodically now . |
9 | Lord Tebbit claimed on TV that an official from Tory Central Office in London had gone to a constituency to campaign directly against one MP . |
10 | During her time at Brentwoods , although she had never actually gone to a cinema with another man , she had often entertained or been entertained by members of the opposite sex , usually at lunchtime , occasions which she had afterwards described in detail to Brian , much to his amusement . |
11 | ‘ When clients have gone to a firm and believe that they have been treated badly , they tend to complain against the firm , not the engagement partner , and are surprised when the Institute tells them that they can not do so , ’ said Elwyn Eilledge , head of the working party . |
12 | And the contract has gone to a company based in Milton Keynes . |
13 | He had first gone to a psychotherapist because he felt he was a failure , and now he was going to help him cope with success . |
14 | ‘ It was my own choice to stay there , when I could have gone to a hotel . ’ |
15 | Oliver had gone to a shop and she was on her own . |
16 | The British authorities , responding to an anonymous phone call , had gone to a roadside in Buckinghamshire and there found Simon Cormack dead . |
17 | I had gone to a town about a hundred miles north of Rangoon and had spent Christmas night in a village seventeen miles away . |
18 | A TOP architectural award has gone to a town CAR PARK . |
19 | We have actually let four of the units , two have gone to a department of Council for a service they 're delivering in the area , er , but actually it 's a manufacturing type of operation that they 're running there so it 's , that , that , you know , is in keeping with the nature of the units , and the other two units have gone elsewhere . |
20 | Jonathan , his mother and Allitt had gone to a market together : while there he began to feel nauseated . |
21 | Edward had gone to a meeting of the local ornithological society . |
22 | His wife Margaret had n't been there ; she 'd gone to a meeting of her rock garden club . |
23 | He 's gone to a meeting at Cambuslang . |
24 | One morning during coffee-break , Rachel found Nina and Louise apparently discussing David , who had gone to a meeting . |
25 | Jonathan had gone to a flat in Malvern with three friends . |
26 | Lee C.J. said , at p. 26 : ‘ There is no precedent , where a mandamus has gone to a visitor , to reverse his own sentence . ’ |
27 | Erm and I I was n't feeling on top form and er looking back , I perhaps should have gone to a doctor then . |
28 | ‘ If I was lonely , I would not have gone to a teacher and said so — he would have told me to pull myself together . |
29 | We 've gone to a lot of trouble here to promote good relations with the local community and I 'm not going to have all that good work vitiated by a totally unnecessary legal action , particularly not now when work will soon begin on the new reactor . ‘ |
30 | Remarks ( i ) If the reader feels we have gone to a lot of trouble to establish a result which is " obvious " we ask him on what grounds he bases his belief i this result ? |