Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 where I went to work down there and in a month they put , it was amongst a shop of about sixteen men and they all had separate orders and the men had got little lads working for them , you know .
2 It was all one to him whether he directed a battle or a raid from his headquarters and left the action to others , or himself went to work with lance or sword in the centre of the din ; they were merely complementary skills in the same comprehensive expertise .
3 Anna went home via St Andrew 's Church , where she apologized to God and then thanked Him .
4 They took us to the airport , where we flew to Peking via Hangchow .
5 We were then posted to 406 Sqn RCAF where we converted to Beaufighters .
6 After London Transport took over they were sold where they stood to Cohens for scrap on 9 May 1934 .
7 His first recorded appearance is at Longleat House , Wiltshire , where he went to work for Sir John Thynne [ q.v. ] as a master mason in March 1568 .
8 It 's not surprising that Koons began his career as a salesman , selling memberships for the Museum of Modern Art in New York in the late Seventies , following a stint of art school in Baltimore and a relatively nondescript youth in a small Pennsylvania town , where he listened to Led Zeppelin and ‘ chased after women ’ .
9 As abrasive as ever , Morrissey made an appearance on Radio One 's Round Table where he cut to ribbons practically every recording artist in the country .
10 At the last Christmas party he proved it with a stunning virtuoso performance in the restaurant , where he mimed to Abba records using a salt cellar as a microphone .
11 From its beginnings here , silk weaving spread to the Midlands and the north where it graduated to factory industry status .
12 The children come dressed as animals or anything related to farms , such as scarecrows .
13 It was unbearable that the gallery girl should imagine that I belonged to Syl , that his glances and suggestive remarks had ensnared me .
14 The result of all this was that I returned to Europe and settled in Paris with her .
15 It was not until eleven years later that I returned to England and saw Biddy and Joe again , although I had been writing regularly to them .
16 Imagine , said Francis , that I returned to Perugia on the darkest of nights , a night so cold that everything is covered with snow , and the frost in the folds of my habit hits my legs and makes them bleed .
17 I was so anxious not to be late for my appointment that I got to Passy two hours early .
18 But anyway apart from that I said to Mr , he 's the head over all the hydroelectric stations over this erm I said Mr li these commutators I told him doing the .
19 The reason why we arrange trade missions such as the one that I led to Kuwait — six similar missions have been conducted — is our interest in stimulating orders for the new Welsh economy .
20 The first evidence of this surfaced on the second trip that I made to Rhodesia , in April 1971 .
21 I chose residential care and so it was that I came to Le Court In September 1977 .
22 ‘ It 's late , and about time that I went to bed .
23 'After that I went to sleep . ’
24 It was then that I went to school for the first time , to a Roman Catholic convent in Ealing , not because of my parents ' religious beliefs but because it was thought to be educationally superior to any of the state-run schools in the locality .
25 And I st when I started this aerobic class there was four girls up there that I went to school with in my class at school .
26 First I 'll divulge that I went to Bristol — they 'll know that already if they 're bright enough — then I 'll say I went to this Bed and Breakfast — then I looked for a job …
27 I have always counted on my fingers and still do and I had been so nervous about this that I went to classes with the ATC in Darrowby before my call-up , dredging from my schooldays horrific calculations about trains passing each other at different speeds and water running in and out of bath tubs .
28 I started off smoking hash ; from that I went to acid , LSD , speed , things like that .
29 I regarded it as a very happy accident that I went to U.C.L. to study English , not knowing at the time that I was going to a Department and to a College distinguished for English language studies .
30 Others claim that I went to St Tropez on a tip-off , bumped into Angeli and only then struck up a deal for the Daily Mirror to have exclusive pictures .
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