Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] gone to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the effort and all the investment made so far has effectively gone to waste . |
| 2 | Well if you think about it it 's the only principle that America has ever gone to war over . |
| 3 | An entertained audience is actually there and listening : a bored one has usually gone to dinner . |
| 4 | ALL that fame has clearly gone to Dannii Minogue 's head . |
| 5 | The first prize has now gone to Dr Richard Gentle , a specialist in fluid mechanics at Nottingham University . |
| 6 | Christie 's has even gone to Washington to lobby for the bill . |
| 7 | Monica 's section is , I do n't know how fair it is , but a lot of the pressure that was previously on Steve and before him on Margaret has actually gone to Gail 's post . |
| 8 | Anyway I read in the programme that Whyte has definitely gone to Birmingham City for 1/4 million . |
| 9 | They 'd all gone to bed the night before when I 'd returned from a last noggin with Harry . |
| 10 | She 'd been very happy that Sunday , 13 years ago , when they 'd all gone to Adam 's for lunch . |
| 11 | It was 1.30 that Sunday night , I 'd just gone to bed feeling rather worn out after a busy week and sociable weekend . |
| 12 | I 'd originally gone to Czechoslovakia to photograph pollution but I 'm so glad I was pursuaded by my Czechoslovak friends to spend three days out of my precious two weeks walking in the Slovenský Raj . |
| 13 | The worst thought was that maybe she 'd wanted her mother dead ; for she 'd certainly gone to extremes to avoid knowing the truth . |
| 14 | Guy Thomas , who 'd actually gone to RADA , gave me a book on breathing . |
| 15 | ‘ I would have probably gone to Wimbledon with a cast on , against the medical opinion I have had , ’ said Agassi . |
| 16 | There was a rather pleasant man , called Chaudhry , who showed worrying signs of having actually gone to Oxford . |
| 17 | ‘ Had to go and leave my dandelions to look for you , now they 've all gone to sleep . ’ |
| 18 | Not in front of the children but later , when they had all gone to bed and to sleep . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He had only gone to Karlovy Vary to deliver a package — and look at the time , nearly four o'clock ! |
| 21 | She closed the living-room door before answering , even though Dickie had long gone to bed . |
| 22 | Peggy hurried off to Elizabeth 's house , but there she learned that Elizabeth had already gone to Horsfall Woods . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | My mother had already gone to bed . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 27 | Undoubtedly , such a milestone was passed in December 1965 , when the recently appointed Monsignor Harris , who at that time had just gone to London as the Senior Roman Catholic Chaplain to the prison service , was invited by the holy see , to become an Auxiliary Bishop in his native diocese of Liverpool . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He and his wife had just gone to bed . |
| 30 | On another occasion , Mr Reynolds had just gone to bed when he had the feeling that there was a fire on the site . |