Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb past] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Proceedings were adjourned until July 11 , so that witnesses could be called , but the justices sitting on that date concluded that they had no power to consider the case afresh and proceeded to sentence .
2 She pulled herself together and went to bed .
3 She crumpled it , threw it away and went to bed .
4 Then he turned away and went to sleep and I lay there and wept , feeling an absolute failure ’ .
5 With her mother 's reluctant approval , she gave up her easy life ashore and went to sea , a career she was to follow for almost 50 years and which was to bring her lasting fame .
6 Ewen Mackay was still tying up when we nosed gently in to rub shoulders with Stormy Petrel , and Neil jumped ashore and turned to hand me out .
7 When dry the assemblies can now be gauged exactly and planed to width .
8 He pushed the pad aside and began to type again .
9 I took a taxi home and went to sleep .
10 I was 19 when I left home and went to university .
11 Oh well I gave them and went home and went to bed .
12 They always had money because they left school early and went to work , mainly as builders and labourers .
13 Ward ordered vodka , drank it straight and went to sleep with *Muerto O Vivo ? open on his lap .
14 We went on past and came to Gate 6 , which was basically a staircase leading to ground level , where the rails were .
15 I left Bella a note , came back here and went to bed in the spare room .
16 I shut my eyes then and went to work .
17 Not much doubt he slipped in there and went to earth in the shed , for some purpose of his own .
18 He ate his dinner and said nothing , played his violin and felt nothing , worked when the lights came on again and went to bed without another thought .
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