Example sentences of "went [adv prt] to the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police went on to the site in the centre of Oxford at around 2.30 , 70 officers in all , in riot gear , backed up by helicopter , sniffer dogs and the marine section . |
| 2 | It seemed as good a time as any to go , so I went down to the squat in the King 's Road where I was living and picked up my passport . |
| 3 | On Thursday night — late night shopping — Nails went down to the supermarket in his anorak with the big pockets and lifted six electric plugs , four pairs of scissors and a pair of pillowcases which he sold to a friend of his father 's for three pounds . |
| 4 | On 12 April , Coleman went over to the courthouse in Jefferson County , Alabama , and for a $5 fee , legally changed his name to Thomas Leavy . |
| 5 | He retired to his basket in a huff and I went off to the supermarket in a quandary . |
| 6 | Dudley , after years of trying to get redress by law , went off to the Continent in a huff ( and a fancy woman ) where the Emperor created him a duke and overlooked the fancy woman . |
| 7 | When he went off to the war in 1914 she took a job as an usherette in an effort to get as near as possible to the warmth of the theatre and away from the coldness of his family . |
| 8 | In the Fens , mothers abandoned their children ‘ swimming in their beds , till good people , adventuring their lives , went up to the breast in the waters to fetch them out at the windows ’ . |
| 9 | Sergeant Joe went out to the landing in haste , and Marcelle also appeared , her skirts rustling . |
| 10 | ‘ No , he often went back to the yard in the evenings and almost always on Friday evenings . |
| 11 | My mind went back to the scene in that bedroom and the sliding doors to the paved patio . |
| 12 | She blushed and went back to the chair in which old Eddy had died . |
| 13 | Mm , we went back to the heat in , and the last week it rained every single day . |