Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb past] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one o'clock she went to lunch feeling more confident about her long-term prospects with the firm . |
| 2 | The experience left her physically and emotionally drained and a few months later she returned to hospital for a hysterectomy . |
| 3 | Six months later she went to prison as a suffragette , having lied about her age and enrolled as a militant . |
| 4 | However , it was n't often she had to fork out the coppers when pushing the hand cart through The Courts . |
| 5 | Sometimes she went to sleep in class because she got up so early to get everything done . |
| 6 | She said she was driving an ambulance in the air raids and that it was very exciting but dreadfully tiring ; sometimes she went to bed after breakfast and slept until evening . |
| 7 | She passed him the tin and the spoon , and lay on the floor looking at the gas fire , and then she went to sleep . |
| 8 | And then she went to sleep again until ten , on our bed . |
| 9 | Then she went to bed exhausted and , for the first time since her terror started , slept well . |
| 10 | Then she went to bed . |
| 11 | She went home — alone — and sat in darkness staring at the blank face of the television until eleven , and then she went to bed and stared at the ceiling instead . |
| 12 | She took off the wire that held the cork in position and put the bottle beside her , then she set to work . |
| 13 | She sighed to herself and smiled to herself at Auntie 's mistake ; and then she set to work with Auntie 's sewing-machine . |
| 14 | Then she turned to Xanthe whom she could avoid kissing , to keep her unbathed body away from the young girl 's groomed presence as far as she was able without coldness . |
| 15 | She said she was hungry ; he fed her with cornflakes and afterwards she went to sleep , her fat cheek squashed against his waistcoat button , her pink mouth dribbling milk . |