Example sentences of "[verb] gone to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the contract has gone to a company based in Milton Keynes . |
| 2 | Lee C.J. said , at p. 26 : ‘ There is no precedent , where a mandamus has gone to a visitor , to reverse his own sentence . ’ |
| 3 | Now she has gone to a post at Hendon responsible for training new recruits . |
| 4 | A TOP architectural award has gone to a town CAR PARK . |
| 5 | For the first time in the history of the Beaubourg , the presidency has gone to a representative of the museum world , rather than to a high-ranking official from the Ministry of Culture . |
| 6 | His parents thought he 'd gone to a friend 's house in the next street . |
| 7 | His wife Margaret had n't been there ; she 'd gone to a meeting of her rock garden club . |
| 8 | ‘ It was my own choice to stay there , when I could have gone to a hotel . ’ |
| 9 | Meiko Scientific Plc , Bristol has been getting a bit of stick in the US press following its sale of one of its massively parallel systems to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under a $15m agreement : complainants say the order should have gone to a US firm and not to a UK one ; Meiko repudiates ‘ the damaging impressions ’ created in a New York Times story on the order , saying that it was consistent with US national security policies and procedures with support provided by cleared US citizens ; it bridles at the suggestion that the machine is unproven , pointing to over 400 installations , and says the Israeli transaction was in compliance with both US and British export regulations and that this was confirmed by the British Embassy in Washington . |
| 10 | And she might have gone to a specialist to have it diagnosed . |
| 11 | Ralph and Bernie must have gone to a lot of trouble to set him up . |
| 12 | It is unlikely that he would have gone to a children 's home in the first place and stayed for as long as he did before fostering was tried . |
| 13 | Erm and I I was n't feeling on top form and er looking back , I perhaps should have gone to a doctor then . |
| 14 | ‘ If I was lonely , I would not have gone to a teacher and said so — he would have told me to pull myself together . |
| 15 | BELVILLE : It is still my opinion that if I had not discovered the parson as I did , you might have gone to a length that would have put your present situation out of both our powers . |
| 16 | They 've gone to a matinee of Starlight Express . |
| 17 | We 've gone to a lot of trouble here to promote good relations with the local community and I 'm not going to have all that good work vitiated by a totally unnecessary legal action , particularly not now when work will soon begin on the new reactor . ‘ |
| 18 | ‘ You 've gone to a lot of trouble , ’ he said , opening it out . |
| 19 | You 've gone to a lot of trouble . ’ |
| 20 | Lord Tebbit claimed on TV that an official from Tory Central Office in London had gone to a constituency to campaign directly against one MP . |
| 21 | This is believed to be the first time that an attempt has been made to compile a complete statistical record of Soviet economic development assistance to the less developed countries since it started on a formal basis in 1954 ; by 1983 such assistance had gone to a total of 57 countries . |
| 22 | We could almost have forgotten about the war but for the shell-holes in the surrounding downland , stark white chalk amid the tawny grass , the result of gunnery practice on the artillery and tank ranges at Tidworth , Bulford , and at Larkhill , where I remembered Leslie had gone to a firing camp all those months ago . |
| 23 | However , on the advice of an acquaintance , she had gone to a clinic in Pennsylvania : she retired there periodically now . |
| 24 | Les , 59 , had gone to a Manchester BUPA hospital for a check-up but collapsed and died shortly after arriving . |
| 25 | Signe had gone to a lot of trouble to make Harvey feel he was back home in America . |
| 26 | Oliver had gone to a shop and she was on her own . |
| 27 | Jonathan , his mother and Allitt had gone to a market together : while there he began to feel nauseated . |
| 28 | Edward had gone to a meeting of the local ornithological society . |
| 29 | One morning during coffee-break , Rachel found Nina and Louise apparently discussing David , who had gone to a meeting . |
| 30 | Jonathan had gone to a flat in Malvern with three friends . |