Example sentences of "went [adv] to a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his sexual initiation by a barmaid in an outback pub , while his father was drinking downstairs ( at an age which would seem to be about twelve and a half — but Greg felt the incident had been brought forward significantly , from a feeling that the narrative pace of the opening pages was already flagging ) , Gerald Seymour-Strachey went on to a variety of girls ( occasionally called ‘ girlies ’ ) and later women . |
| 2 | ‘ I went on to a party in Cambridge after I 'd been catching swifts , and in the middle of the party a horrible large green thing , a flightless parasitic fly , found on swifts , crawled crabwise out of my hair on to my dinner jacket — it was a dinner jacket sort of party . |
| 3 | Later that month Alistair went along to a reading at the Screenplay Society in Earl 's Court . |
| 4 | In the end , we went down to a chum in the country . ’ |
| 5 | As it went down to a flutter of clapping , John added : ‘ They wanted to study the effects . |
| 6 | After I did the course for two weeks I went down to a place in Ashford and I was in Ashford for twelve weeks , came back to Chelmsford , did another two weeks and then I was released as what 's known as probationer constable , a probationer constable . |
| 7 | Lissouba headed the poll and went through to a second round run-off on Aug. 16 against the second-placed Bernard Kolelas of the Congolese Movement for Democracy and Integral Development ( MCDDI ) . |
| 8 | He started with a series of gulping sobs , went through to a noise like a drain emptying out and finished up with a sort of throaty sob . |
| 9 | The saleswoman went over to a rack of ankle-length cottons in different colours . |
| 10 | ‘ He went out to a paper in East Africa . |
| 11 | The first night we went out to a restaurant along the coast . |
| 12 | After a dinner at the famous Kaiserhof Hotel , chosen because Hitler had made it his headquarters before he came to power , the Joyces went back to a party at the Reichsrundfunk building . |
| 13 | Philippa went across to a tray of goblets , filled two and brought them back . |
| 14 | He got up and went across to a bureau in the corner furthest from the fire , returning a moment later with a folder which he handed to the T'ang . |
| 15 | His candidacy thus went forward to a second round run-off scheduled for June 3 , in which his opponent would be an unexpected late entrant Alberto Keinya Fujimori , 52 , of the newly formed Change 90 ( Cambio 90 ) movement who received 24.62 per cent of the vote . |