Example sentences of "he [vb past] go [adv prt] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and this this case the there was a fire in a flat , the chap had gone out to work , we did n't know he 'd gone out to work , so we broke First of all we informed the fire brigade was on the way , we broke down the door , quick look in the flat , best possible way we could look , and the fire brigade turned up and dealt with the flat . |
| 2 | He 'd gone down to Atlanta to watch the Democratic Party select its presidential candidate , and at night he went dancing . |
| 3 | Perhaps he 'd gone down to Somerset to see his mother . |
| 4 | It was a long , long time since he 'd gone off to America and now , at last , he was coming back on a month 's holiday . |
| 5 | If he 'd gone back to Zimbala it would have brought disgrace on the family . |
| 6 | After a couple of minutes of this he decided to go back to Elstree . |
| 7 | In desperation , he decided to go back to London . |
| 8 | He did go back to London ; he did defy the might of Zanuck , but the canny Alex Korda in London stitched up the contract later which , yes , was to give him a million dollars , but also tie him to some terrible films . |
| 9 | He hesitated to go back to Bathsheba and a comfortable life on the farm . |
| 10 | So to pay the rent he had to go off to Czechoslovakia and Australia to do films he knew were n't much good . |
| 11 | If he , if he could n't do anything then he would accept it and not do it and then try a bit and if he had to go back to bed . |
| 12 | Oh we used to have phosphate and sulphur , potash , coal , granite you name it anything , general cargo we 've had , loaded everything , even dead bodies , we sent , there was one young , one young person , he got drowned up the coast there and they and he had to go back to Holland and they brought that from out the warehouse and put it on the stern of our ship , his coffin , they sent that back and they erm export er pigs to Poland , all live pigs , pedigree pigs . |
| 13 | and what we doing now is London , London yesterday and you , you should have been at home today but he had to go back to London again so I did n't keep him very much , given up is it ? |
| 14 | He had n't got a job yet but he had gone up to London every day this week and come home in a jolly mood . |
| 15 | He had gone up to Magdalen College , asked at the Porters ' Lodge , discovered the grounds were closed ; then just carried on walking over the bridge , around the Plain , and back again down the High . |
| 16 | His work finished , or perhaps even abandoned , he had gone back to Water Gypsy , expecting her to be there . |
| 17 | The Chancellor had left Blackpool late on Monday night , after addressing party agents , but conference jitters were so great that his unexpected disappearance prompted rumours that he had gone back to London for crisis talks . |
| 18 | Later we learned that he had gone back to London and given a mischievous account of our conversation in literary circles , and we were ‘ very much blamed ’ . |
| 19 | He had gone back to Britain after leaving the holding camp in Japan . |
| 20 | ‘ Bexton thought he had gone back to Norway and no money had been left for him . |
| 21 | Philip , who was an evangelist , he had gone down to Somaria , in fact , the Holy Spirit had taken him there . |
| 22 | Sean wished that he had gone down to Birdie Mac 's and knocked on the door for a bar of Kit-Kat , anything rather than face these two . |
| 23 | ‘ All he told us was that he wanted to go up to Luxor . |
| 24 | He wanted to go up to Jubilee Wood again . |
| 25 | Jim says no , Kath 's asked him if he would like to go but he wanted to go down to Wembley er get yourself away ! |