Example sentences of "[adv] went to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite a large group apparently went to work as compositors in the south of England , if that is the right interpretation to put on the mention " gone to Colchester " which is recorded against the names of some women in the trade-union membership registers which are the chief source for this information . |
| 2 | He only went to church when he took church parade — he was what we then called a Regular — but he shed buckets of tears when he heard the Last Post . |
| 3 | For those of us who only went to church for weddings , christenings , funerals and compulsory church parades , it was usually C of E ( Church of England ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I only went to school for two years , ’ says Maxima Flores , forty-year-old mother of four . |
| 5 | Turned on the radio to listen to a play , but it was stupid , so went to bed . |
| 6 | He finally went to bed , cursing himself for his own sentimentality , certain the feeling was due to tiredness and jet-lag , no more . |
| 7 | Abraham finally went to sleep on the waggon . |
| 8 | We soon went to bed . |
| 9 | Mrs Thompson 's daughter , Elizabeth , said her mother generally went to bed at 7 pm until 7 am and always turned the heating off , leaving the house quite cold . |
| 10 | He no longer went to church , or saw any friends . |
| 11 | I just went to bed for a sleep ’ , he revealed . |
| 12 | And she got herself ready for bed and you know just went to bed by herself . |
| 13 | He cried for put him on the bed , could n't do no college work so I just went to bed and left him . |
| 14 | ‘ He just went to sleep . ’ |
| 15 | Ellen just went to sleep . |
| 16 | And my father I think just went to school in the Wintertime . |
| 17 | We sat before him looking at him with respectful eyes ( that is , all but one of us , who usually went to sleep as soon as the class started ; she was not just closing her eyes , she was fast asleep ) . |
| 18 | I used to read to the family , and pray with them in the evening , and then I usually went to bed at nine o'clock . |
| 19 | Quinn eased the armchair away from the wall , grunted a few times for the benefit of the wall microphone , switched off the tape-recorder , rolled on to the bed and genuinely went to sleep . |
| 20 | She still went to church occasionally , she loved the singing , and in spite of her husband 's example , she still told me ‘ Not to take the Lord 's name in vain . ’ |
| 21 | In spite of this partial acquittal Leese still went to prison . |
| 22 | Only that , he says would ensure that such disputes over legal procedure were sorted out before a case ever went to trial . |
| 23 | Well even m er my kiddies er not An er Joan so much but the others seven o'clock was the latest they ever went to bed . |
| 24 | And I do n't think he ever went to problem you know , a pub fight at all . |
| 25 | As for some of these Territorial officers — temporary officers , he labelled them … about as likely to amount to anything if they ever went to war as a commercial traveller or a third rate comedian in a music hall . |
| 26 | He always went to sleep with his still burning , so he got through a lot more than she did . |
| 27 | Dooley 's personal tragedy was so awful — he was so young and talented and he took the blow with such heroic , idiotic stoicism ( ‘ It 's my one regret that the ball did n't finish in the net ’ ) — that a substantial sum was raised for him and he later went to work for the club . |
| 28 | They made love on the cool marble floor of the terrace , and much later went to bed and slept in each other 's arms for the first time in months . |
| 29 | Previously , a bondholder could swap his old paper for new bonds with the same face value but , say , different rights and terms , without closing his options if the firm later went to chapter 11 . |
| 30 | For some reason ( probably ignorance of the comic art ) Will Hay , the majestic Thirties comedian who also went to school in Stockton was overlooked by the Academy . |