Example sentences of "[noun sg] went [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cobalt went straight to the point . |
| 2 | Chen smiled , but made no move to sit , watching as Ling Hen went across to the figure at the control desk . |
| 3 | His gaze went straight to the girl in the bed . |
| 4 | My gaze went frequently to the other bearer of that awful secret . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , the waiter went straight to the staff rest area and , using a coin phone , dialled his contact . |
| 6 | While Louis the German went eastwards to the Rhineland , after agreeing to another meeting at Langres in September , Charles 's first move after Fontenoy was westwards into Aquitaine . |
| 7 | With a moisture content of 14.5% , the grain went straight to the merchant . |
| 8 | However , at one stage , one of Tony 's roadies — apparently a bit of an electronics whizzkid — wired the guitar to send the signal from one of the sockets to a transformer and into a mixer , while the other went straight to the amp . |
| 9 | Her sense of discipleship went right to the root of her being . |
| 10 | After dinner , her uncle and Finn went again to the workroom and her aunt put on her grey dress and silver collar and did up her coiffure . |
| 11 | This suggestion went straight to the foolish Cassowary 's head , as the cunning Bower-bird began to chant gibberish . |
| 12 | I had one chap who worked for me for over two years without one accident , did n't scratch anything , did everything right , he was a wonderful conscientious man , and then one day he was carrying a big box containing some expensive crockery and he tripped on the top step of the stairs and the lot went down , the whole box went right to the bottom . |
| 13 | Wearing her full brown skirt and white gloves , Isabel Lavender went upstairs to the attic , oiling the lock and shifting cases to make a passage for herself . |
| 14 | By the end of the period , paid holidays were longer , life expectancy had increased , accidents at work were reduced and the public services had been expanded considerably ( although as Townsend has argued the benefits of this expansion went disproportionately to the ‘ middle class ’ ) . |
| 15 | Alone in the big drawing-room where Annette 's choice of bright fabrics had fought hardest , albeit still without winning against her dead in-laws ' passion for darkpanelled gloom Maxim went straight to the telephone . |
| 16 | In Phekoo by contrast the Court of Appeal went directly to the general principle , asking themselves Brett 's question , ‘ What would the position of the accused have been if the facts had been as he believed them to be ? ’ |
| 17 | … commanded his armie to halt , and himselfe went alone to the toppe where , having sighted the Mar del Sur , he knelt down and raising his hands to Heaven , pouring forth mighty praises to God for His great grace in having made him the first man to discover and sight it . |
| 18 | Her son went straight to the town hall to ask maintenance men to restore the vital services for his mother . |