Example sentences of "went [adv] to the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 He never quite went on to the big scores but has now begun to put that right .
2 We went along to the various stations .
3 ‘ I only realised he was any good when he was 13 and went down to the English schools Under-14 championships at Queens one Monday .
4 It was a situation whose benefits went largely to the richer tenant-farmers and the landowners rather than to the ordinary yeoman or labourer .
5 Sharpe went through to the deserted kitchens and found some bread , cheese and ale .
6 He went up to the two detectives and coughed delicately .
7 In researching the activists I went also to the local trades council and its women 's committee , union meetings called over disputes , local demonstrations , courses and day schools for women trade unionists .
8 I travelled up from Kings Cross with Sidney , Daryl Bligh of the Graphic , K. B. D. Clarke of the Times , ‘ Tibby ’ Tisdale of the News , Stanford Roberts , of course , and I think we had Norton Malley with us , who would at that time I suppose have been on the Morning Post , though he later went back to the Irish Times .
9 She picked it up , went back to the two girls and dumped it unceremoniously over Peggy 's head .
10 After I started with Veronica , Mrs D went back to the First Spiritualists . ’
11 Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ?
12 But they went back to the same orphanages which were grim.There was a determination to help them .
13 Periodically I went back to the northern wastes again , a sort of alchemical prep school where , like Lorne , I sustained myself through the dark times with dreams of the southern islands .
14 I think if we went back to the Inca ways , things would get better .
15 Gascoigne , first embraced by his team-mates , went back to the faithful fans — the Laziali , and slung his shirt into their midst .
16 When the brief ceremony was over , Tsu Ma turned and went across to the two boys .
17 In July 1338 he went abroad to the Low Countries with Edward , dying there 10 March 1340 .
18 Paradoxically , the more the middle class increased and flourished , diverting resources towards its own housing , offices , the department stores which were so characteristic a development of the era , and its prestige buildings , the less went relatively to the working-class quarters , except in the most general form of social expenditure streets , sanitation , lighting and public utilities .
19 She swung herself down from the back door and went round to the front steps of the kiosk .
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