Example sentences of "went [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've managed to erm , the first time we went skiing is when we lived in the States , we went to like , er , not dry ski slopes there , but it was like false snow , that 's the same as you erm , they were really , was like eleven years ago , sort of like , technology had n't quite advanced terribly much , you know , and these bindings , you had like , metal clips on the bottom of your boots , and you had to put the thing in and clip the boot , clip the thing round on the skis , to keep your boot on the ski , right , it was n't like toe clips where you shove your foot , |
| 2 | Miss Nazir warned them to get rid of the stolen property and then went to alert her sister . |
| 3 | He grabbed the crowbar and went to hit me with it . |
| 4 | Having drunk my first afternoon coffee with Sheikha Grandmother I went to greet the Sheikha . |
| 5 | She said she might come , , said the Sheikha softly and went to greet her . |
| 6 | so I managed for a few weeks and then I went to lodge with my sister at Trimley |
| 7 | Arthur went to confirm the booking , and gather furniture for us . |
| 8 | Next day Elspeth went to mount the horse again , but this time she was chatting to a friend instead of listening to the horse . |
| 9 | We have an eye-witness who heard him when he went to preach at Easington colliery to a large congregation of miners and their families , who felt that he himself and the other hearers were electrified . |
| 10 | The early career of the great missionary John Wesley showed the problems facing Anglicans in an area without bishops ; when he went to preach in the newly-launched colony of Georgia from 1735 to 1737 the Church of England made no provision for his activity , and he went out attached to the Moravians . |
| 11 | But , leaving her for a brief while , he went to instruct Ivo to drive her back to her hotel , and then escorted her out through the front door . |
| 12 | The person on duty disappeared out the back and I went to sit in the same seat where I had sat the night before . |
| 13 | Jenny paid and we went to sit down . |
| 14 | She often went to sit quietly beside the hives , in the bee-field or on the moor . |
| 15 | Nessie went to sit by her son and Nellie turned again to the window . |
| 16 | Dad flushed and let go of me and went to sit down again . |
| 17 | I went to sit with Kalchu and the children by the remains of their fire . |
| 18 | Minutes later , Jack went to sit at his stepfather 's bedside in a private ward . |
| 19 | She left the shower-room and went to sit in a comfortable ‘ brown chair in the restroom . |
| 20 | ‘ I went to sit in the library to wait for Mummy and I started to cry . ’ |
| 21 | Tom got up and went to sit beside her . |
| 22 | Again and again he swiped at Chloe , but she remained convinced that this was a game and every time her friend approached she darted away and went to sit somewhere else in the clearing , her tail brushing the ground frantically . |
| 23 | I went to sit in the pâtisserie Louis , on a fragile gilt chair , at a table with a pink linen cloth and a bowl of freesias . |
| 24 | She went to sit beside him on the bed and read something tinny and long-winded about the recovery of Wall Street . |
| 25 | He could not bear to talk about what had happened and so he handed it to Julia and went to sit on one of the excruciatingly uncomfortable gilded chairs by the window while she read it . |
| 26 | Julia went to sit in the kitchen , trying to stop applying what she had just heard to her own situation . |
| 27 | She went to sit on the sofa , and there she dreamed of Johnny , tenderly and with affection ; she thought of the words that he had said , and they made a warm spot , infinitely sweet , deep inside her where it could not be touched ; for just an hour or two , she began to believe that she truly loved him . |
| 28 | After a long pause , Roman turned away from her , and went to sit down behind his desk . |
| 29 | She went to sit stiffly in the stern as they nosed cautiously out through the ranks of yachts , and then through the litter of fishing-boats , the bright Phoenician ‘ Eye of Osiris ’ painted on their bows , superstitiously warding off evil . |
| 30 | Catherine said the music sounded sweeter from high up , and so she went to sit in the dark on the stairs . |