Example sentences of "[noun] and went to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got into bed beside my sleeping daughter , peeled aside all but one of the covers and went to sleep . |
| 2 | She stared uneasily at the envelope , at the black , firm hand , at the French stamp , and then she put out the light and went to bed . |
| 3 | At last he closed his books and went to bed . |
| 4 | Anna walked around the house , looked into every room and , having inspected her new home , apparently satisfied , settled on Christine 's lap and went to sleep , exhausted after the journey . |
| 5 | However the girls took the dog upstairs where it wolfed all that was left of the lasagne and went to sleep in front of the hearth , quieter than it ever had been at the Castello Crocetto . |
| 6 | Unsupervised , we succumbed to the effects of the wine and the sun and went to sleep , berets over our eyes , in the long grass underneath some olive trees . |
| 7 | So we all took a bath in the same tub and went to bed |
| 8 | Adam leaned down and stroked the pale ginger fur ; the cat curled up against his feet and went to sleep . |
| 9 | Finally , after the evening biscuit and drink of water , we said prayers and went to bed . |
| 10 | Croydon Corporation was not satisfied with the compensation which it received for the loss of its tramways and went to arbitration . |
| 11 | We filed back to our barracks and went to bed . |
| 12 | I lay down in the woods and went to sleep . |
| 13 | On this occasion I wrapped myself up in a blanket and went to sleep in a ditch . |
| 14 | Numb with agony and humiliation , she got undressed like a ghost and went to bed , unable to let herself dwell too deeply on what had happened in case she found herself asking the inevitable question : if I hate Damian Flint , why has he been able to hurt me so deeply ? |
| 15 | And on that enigmatic note he kissed her cheek and went to bed . |
| 16 | Scott was born in South Shields and went to school in Tynemouth in Stockton . |
| 17 | She switched off the CD player , went into the bedroom , checked that her black dress , red jacket and red shoes were spotless for the morning : tucked a red and gold scarf and a couple of gilt bracelets into her bag to wear in the evening and went to bed . |
| 18 | I was raised in Britain where I took my A-levels and went to university , but I now teach at an American college . |
| 19 | He woke up every day and went to work at the ice-cream parlour , but he began to hate the taste , the sight , the very thought of it . |
| 20 | At seven P M , she started to talk about the evening things and went to sleep . |
| 21 | ‘ After the police had come and talked to us I just went home and had a cup of tea and a glass of brandy with water and went to bed . ’ |
| 22 | Detective-Constable Barnes , large , rustic , intelligent and benign , put down his spade and went to work lovingly with a soft brush on the exposed uprights of the flue , whisking away loose , moist soil that abandoned its hold with revealing readiness . |
| 23 | I put the pressure-cooker back and went to bed on the sofa . |
| 24 | Finally I slumped down outside it for a while and went to bed myself . |
| 25 | They had a drink and went to bed , and afterward he talked to her about deals and projects . |
| 26 | She spent the evening rereading the day 's output and went to bed moderately satisfied . |
| 27 | The next thing they knew they were on their way to a Children 's Home run by nuns about twenty miles away : " It was nice and clean , I had a bath and went to bed . |
| 28 | He put his feet up on the desk , tilted back the swivel executive chair and went to sleep . |
| 29 | To the New York Times Pebbles was ‘ the English filly who drinks a pint of stout every morning and went to post in the company of a British gelding she has a crush on ’ ; in the 1985 Breeders ' Cup Turf at Aqueduct she ‘ overcame a poor start and traffic problems to beat the boys by a neck ’ and provide Britain 's first win in a Breeders ' Cup event . |
| 30 | Pepita grew into a fine , beautiful woman and went to work for the banana shippers as her father had done until he retired at sixty-two . |