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 ?
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