Example sentences of "she went to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In November 1945 , she went to the B–17 graveyard in Arizona , where the breakers succeeded in doing what the Nazi flak and fighters had failed to do — destroy Mary Alice .
2 And she went to the front door and knocked , and a little bent-up man appeared … ’
3 Returning to the kitchen she heard the sound of a horse and cart in Celtic Crescent and she went to the front door to look out .
4 She went to the Labour Bureau and the clerk there told her that she would be passed fit for clerical work and sent her to the Ministry of Defence Office .
5 Daily she went to the M's farm and asked Mrs M to teach her .
6 She 's bright — she was at Bristol University before she went to the secretarial college .
7 She went to the stained pavement , where the blood pools were washed by the rain spots .
8 After studying at Manchester School of Art from 1898 to 1903 , she went to the Royal College of Art , before taking a diploma at the Accademia in Venice .
9 She went to the full-length mirror beside her dressing-table , pulling off the headband she had worn in the bath and releasing the glossy brown hair that tumbled almost to her shoulders .
10 She went to the French General 's stirrup and held the pathetic bouquet up to the grim-faced man .
11 Jack was busy , dealing with a nasty fracture , so she went to the nursing station and picked up the phone .
12 After a while , when the sickness had passed , she went to the wash-hand basin to wash and freshen-up , then returned to her seat at the dinner table .
13 After cooking her watery stew one night and seeing her younger daughter into bed she went to the public library and looked up ‘ Death ’ in a concordance .
14 She went to the back door and opened it .
15 She went to the local public baths every day before work and swam twenty lengths .
16 She went to the local public baths every day before work and swam twenty lengths .
17 She went to the dead man and laid her cheek against his ; it was already cold .
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