Example sentences of "[pron] have gone [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had gone to visit the RSPB 's osprey reserve at Loch Garten , and had been struck by the symbolism of that site , where the birds flew free and the humans were , in effect , in a cage . |
| 2 | I was sitting in a friend 's garden where I had gone to seek the Lord , and as I was reading the words of Jesus I knew , with a peace and a joy which passed understanding , the call of God . |
| 3 | Ambulance , thank goodness someone 's remembered , patting this person 's hand , and putting blankets on and reassuring them , telling them everything 's alright , and blood all over the floor , thank god someone 's gone to get the ambulance |
| 4 | Phone calls for Head who has gone to visit a school where one of our pupils now attends full time . |
| 5 | G. S. Staines , of Darlington , was highly commended for ‘ No , I 'm not going just yet ; I 'm still waiting for my wife who has gone to collect a prescription . ’ |
| 6 | If we knew she 'd gone to climb the Himalayas , we would n't care . |
| 7 | She 'd gone to get the food . |
| 8 | Most of the family were present when Anne asked her mother if she could have her dress altered , and after she had gone to see the Misses Dolan Tony said , ‘ I think it 's a shame Anne ca n't go out and enjoy herself . |
| 9 | She had gone to join the queue inside the ladies . |
| 10 | On Saturday May 18th she had gone to spend the weekend with an unnamed boy friend in Brighton , but had not returned to the clinic . |
| 11 | Seb also managed to stutter his thanks to Christian before following Carrie to the kitchen where she had gone to put the kettle on the hob to make coffee for everyone . |
| 12 | On one occasion she packed up her car as if about to go away for the weekend , then sauntered up the street , leading the press to believe she had gone to buy a packet of Polos . |
| 13 | She had gone to find a place where she might age more rapidly . |
| 14 | Susan , still in bed , had no idea that she had gone to fetch a doctor , but her arm was so painful that she raised no objections . |
| 15 | Our friends , who had gone to investigate the river , quickly decided that the call of the Kinloch Rannoch Hotel was far stronger than the call of April fishing . |
| 16 | Joanna spoke softly , with one eye on Helen , who had gone to sterilise the instruments . |
| 17 | It 's almost painful to tell kids who have gone to see The Graduate eight times that once was enough for you because you 've already seen it eighty times with Charles Ray and Robert Harron and Richard Barthlemess and Richard Cromwell and Charles Farrell … |
| 18 | ‘ She 's gone to see a friend . ’ |
| 19 | Let us say that we have gone to see the Parthenon in particular , reputedly the greatest building ever conceived by man . |
| 20 | Making out they 'd gone to see the daffodils . |
| 21 | Indeed , Eoin O'Duffy , who led an Irish contingent to Spain to help Franco , maintained that they had gone to fight the battle of Christianity against Communism , a view which was confirmed for them by the Irish Dominican father , Revd Paul O' Sullivan when he said : |
| 22 | In discussion , he said he 'd been here once before , and he 'd gone to visit the government . |
| 23 | He died 26 December 1238 in Andover , where he had gone to assist the cause of a papal clerk . |
| 24 | The A/G radio operator was not in the control room ; he had gone to change the signals square to reflect the change from left-to right-hand circuits . |
| 25 | He 's gone to shut the back gate cos mummy could n't be bothered . |
| 26 | Erm I ca n't tell you what time he 'll be home really erm well say in the twenty minutes he 's bound to be home cos he he 's been home and then he 's had to shoot out again , he 's gone to get the battery so he wo n't be long . |