Example sentences of "[verb] gone [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He made out that he 'd gone to take a nostalgic look at it , and of course he never said he 'd tried to get in , or that he 'd been before … |
| 2 | She was on her own : Dr Neil had been called out some time ago to attend a woman in childbirth , and Matey had gone to visit an old friend in St John 's Wood , and she was the sole mistress of the doctor 's house in Vetch Street . |
| 3 | Ryan had gone to visit an old girlfriend that night , but left at 9pm . |
| 4 | Interviewed by police Paterson said he and Bailey had gone to investigate a broken window at the hangar and that he knew nothing about how the fire started . |
| 5 | A small group had gone to attack a minor fort and in the battle Melot and another officer had been injured . |
| 6 | One Saturday morning she had waited for an hour and a half outside the dentist 's where he had gone to have a troublesome tooth fixed . |