Example sentences of "[adv] went to [noun] [prep] " 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 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ I only went to school for two years , ’ says Maxima Flores , forty-year-old mother of four . |
| 4 | Exactly a week later I suddenly went to Oxford by the most impossible train which stopped at every station . |
| 5 | Abraham finally went to sleep on the waggon . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I just went to bed for a sleep ’ , he revealed . |
| 8 | And she got herself ready for bed and you know just went to bed by herself . |
| 9 | And my father I think just went to school in the Wintertime . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | No messenger of his ever went to Rome in the early years of Henry I 's reign without pressing for a papal confirmation of Canterbury 's primacy . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He always went to sleep with his still burning , so he got through a lot more than she did . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Gen. Bantu Holomisa , military leader since the December 1987 coup in the " independent " Transkei homeland , met de Klerk in Umtata , Transkei , on Jan. 11 ; de Klerk also went to Ciskei on Jan. 18 . |
| 17 | I also went to classes at the local clinic but they were a low-key sort of affair . |
| 18 | Knights also went to war in company ; a number , sometimes from the same lordship , would serve in the retinue of a great lord . |
| 19 | He probably went to England in 1709 , though his life before his publishing career began in 1734 is obscure . |
| 20 | She lived out of doors and often went to work in the fields with the contadini . |
| 21 | The leading members of the Comintern Affiliation Committee , who eventually went to Moscow in 1935 , were suspended from membership of the ILP . |
| 22 | When Margy eventually went to court for her new shoplifting charge the judge gave her a probation order . |
| 23 | Bottom : Lotus four-litre V8 which eventually went to GM for Corvette |
| 24 | Besides cleaning up the city 's litter , he was determined to cure its chronic pollution problem , and duly went to war on public and private traffic , proposing a total ban from some areas . |
| 25 | ‘ We simply went to work like normal citizens during martial law and now it seems that 's a crime , ’ he went on , gesturing at the 20 heads of party factory cells who were gathered to discuss the future of communism in Poland . |
| 26 | When he spent the Whitsun weekend with John Hayward in Cambridge , he looked " very haggard and washed out and dispirited " and simply went to sleep on Hayward 's bed for two afternoons . |
| 27 | Half of all foreign investment in eastern Europe reportedly went to Hungary in 1990 , amounting to an estimated sum of between $750 million and $1,000 million ; another $1,000 million were expected in 1991 . |
| 28 | Some even went to America across " t'Girt Dub " ( the Big Pond ) , while others went to work in lead-mines in Spain . |
| 29 | Three men almost went to prison as a result . |
| 30 | I almost went to pieces in that room . |