Example sentences of "they [vb past] go [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the answer was a resounding ‘ Non ’ they decided to go back to the classroom . |
| 2 | They must have each eaten about a pound of strawberries , for they kept going back to the fruit cage for more . |
| 3 | The stockings they knitted went on to the feet of the British Army , and so great was the demand and so determinedly was it met that the Romantic writer Southey called them the " Terrible Knitters of Dent " , terrible meaning not bad but fierce , terribly good . |
| 4 | After they had deposited their bags at the hotel , itself ramshackle and run-down , they had gone on to the hospital . |
| 5 | Galerie de la Scala fared so well with a mixture of French , North European and Italian drawings , priced at FFr 20,000–350,000 , not always by famous names but always in exquisite taste , that they had to go back to the gallery for more . |
| 6 | ‘ The Welsh name for the bridge over there , ’ said Beuno , gesturing , ‘ means ‘ the place where the milk was spilt ’ because one year the nuns ' cow went dry and they had to go down to the village to beg for some , and they got this far and then one of them dropped it . ’ |