Example sentences of "[adj] went [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This went back to the development of working-class antipathy to Thomas Malthus , who was seen as giving scientific justification to ruling-class opposition to reform , for after all the aim of his famous moral restraint was to convince the working class to postpone marriage as long as possible . |
| 2 | This went off to the Edinburgh dailies and weeklies , and the local ( suburban ) monthly News . |
| 3 | You had a bath , and some time around ten-thirty went down to the kitchen wearing your dressing-gown and slippers to make yourself a mug of Ovaltine . |
| 4 | The first three teams from each of these went through to the final at East Sussex . |
| 5 | Some then went off to the latrines behind the back of the hall , which Charlie thought smelled worse than the middle of Whitechapel Road on a steaming summer 's day . |
| 6 | In the end , we took a taxi and all went up to the mountainous part — a good way into the interior — to a little village called something like Kaloxilos , where Maria 's grandmother lived and had a garden . |
| 7 | We all went up to the top floor , and entered the room where Mason had been attacked . |
| 8 | They all went over to the fire for plates of meat and bread . |
| 9 | I did n't make it over there because I was at another party , but after the dinner , the night before last , they all went over to the Apple Playroom and started drinking , ordering from room service and making more . |
| 10 | We shut the place up early that evening and then all went round to the pub for a further celebration . |
| 11 | I could see his bright ginger head bobbing about four rows in front , and then his class all went off to the baths , and by the time he was back I was in triple needlework . |
| 12 | After the reception , we all went in to the ballroom for a five-course Scottish dinner such as I have not seen for years ! |
| 13 | Mrs Glews : Well first of all you heard the sirens go off and then you all went down to the shelter and you could hear the planes coming over . |
| 14 | They all went down to the park before hand cos nobody finished the . |
| 15 | Then she took them into Arkwright 's and bought them a bar of chocolate each , which she could ill afford , and they all went back to the Vicarage . |
| 16 | It was quite cheap , though , and he said , erm , I think we 'll start with mine , because I always find Bulgarian a little bit acidic , and we 'd bought this bottle , and we both went out to the kitchen and both said gosh . |
| 17 | They were good men — exemplary young men , it might be said — from families whose ties to the Seven went back to the foundation of the City . |