Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] gone to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the effort and all the investment made so far has effectively gone to waste . |
| 2 | Ludo has not gone to bed . |
| 3 | Well if you think about it it 's the only principle that America has ever gone to war over . |
| 4 | An entertained audience is actually there and listening : a bored one has usually gone to dinner . |
| 5 | They 'd all gone to bed the night before when I 'd returned from a last noggin with Harry . |
| 6 | It was 1.30 that Sunday night , I 'd just gone to bed feeling rather worn out after a busy week and sociable weekend . |
| 7 | ‘ Had to go and leave my dandelions to look for you , now they 've all gone to sleep . ’ |
| 8 | Not in front of the children but later , when they had all gone to bed and to sleep . |
| 9 | Dolly , Tom and Carrie had all gone to bed , but Seb 's knocking brought Tom to the bedroom window complaining about being disturbed at such a late hour . |
| 10 | She closed the living-room door before answering , even though Dickie had long gone to bed . |
| 11 | Michael Jordan of Cork Gully and Timothy Beer of Peat Marwick McLintock said they had recovered £13.2m of the missing deposits but £5.5m of this had already gone to liquidation costs and legal fees . |
| 12 | My mother had already gone to bed . |
| 13 | She managed to control herself and fortunately Dr Neil was as quiet as she was , and when they reached Vetch Street Matey had already gone to bed . |
| 14 | To meet new people meant a lot to me because those of my Fontanellato friends who had not gone to school in Parma had already started work . |
| 15 | One could hardly assume that he had not gone to church out of piety and because it was Ash Wednesday , Ianthe thought , but it was rather puzzling and disturbing to think that she could n't even attend to her devotions in peace . |
| 16 | Assistant Chief Constable David Mellor , aged 52 , who is shortly to take up a post as deputy chief constable of South Wales , had just gone to bed when a device planted below the window of a living room exploded at 1.20am . |
| 17 | He and his wife had just gone to bed . |
| 18 | On another occasion , Mr Reynolds had just gone to bed when he had the feeling that there was a fire on the site . |
| 19 | ‘ All that 's fine , ’ I said , though I was n't particularly interested in the vows of a child who had just gone to boarding school . |
| 20 | In fact on the day they signed the contracts with Wonderland for the King 's Hall they had just gone to No 1 in the charts with their new album . |
| 21 | I mean , there are many , many cases of injustice around the world and , the West , the British government , ca n't be responsible for all of them , but there 's , there 's one particular case of Iraq , where we 've already gone to war , to , in the cause of democracy and freedom , and I do n't believe that when Saddam offends again as he does day by day , we can turn a blind eye . |
| 22 | Alyson , of Hazel Court , Middlesbrough , said she had had minor illnesses , but had always gone to school . |
| 23 | This evening had n't gone to plan . |
| 24 | He had n't gone to Auntie 's funeral — children often do n't . |
| 25 | She had cleared for Antwerp , where she spent a couple of days , and had then gone to West Africa , calling at several ports before returning to Antwerp . |
| 26 | And I listen at the wall for sounds from Jancey , but it 's as quiet as a pillow , and she 's obviously gone to bed . |
| 27 | Late that night , after the children have finally gone to bed , Felicity finds him lying full-length on the playroom floor once again , still absorbed . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's all right , ’ Carrie stammered , ‘ she 's just gone to sleep , ’ and Hepzibah nodded and touched her chin lightly and lovingly and said , ‘ I 'd best go to her then , you stay here with Albert . ’ |
| 29 | HP 's Larry Lytle , loaned to the Open Software Foundation back at its inception to handle recruiting , has made a 180 degree turn after a stint at Netwise as strategic relations director where he had philosophical differences with OSf : He 's now gone to Unix System Labs as director of corporate communications . |
| 30 | So we know from previous studies that these ones when they die have n't gone to heaven |