Example sentences of "he went [adv prt] to [adj] " in BNC.

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1 IT WAS a full year before he made the break — but eventually , on August 21 , 1984 , he went over to one of the more independent local magazines , Cauce , and asked for its leading journalist Monica Gonzalez .
2 Another thing that tickled me about that game was that when vinny had got his second he went over to one of the hoardings that had ‘ Alexei Sayle ’ written on it and kicked the shit out of it for some reason ( same goal I think as above )
3 Instead he went over to one of the shelves and pretended to be searching for a book .
4 He went on to 58 , putting on 154 with Lloyd , the captain batting beautifully for a century to take his team out of trouble .
5 I drifted off into non-league and he went on to big things at West Ham .
6 Perhaps he went up to double check , in case we missed something . ’
7 He came forward warily and took the coin she offered and then he went off to one of the stables to fetch the horse and cart .
8 York is the main urban island in the county and Mr Conal Gregory 's 147vote hold on the city was effectively written off before the polling booths opened ; he went down to Labour by a thumping 6,342 .
9 And I had Avenger estate , and I done the same with that and I got away with it for ages and I what you want a do , I know what you wan na do he erm , I mean that 's that 's really sort of pushing it over the top but he got a great big sheet of polythene , he went down to ready mix and had a load of ready mix in the back of this Avenger estate , brand new he 'd only just got it !
10 Antiochus was used by Thucydides for Sicilian antiquities at the beginning of hi ; book vi , but not for fifth-century history , though he went down to 424 .
11 " It was as hard for me to keep quiet as it was for them , " Brown Owl , Mrs Sheila Scott , told the Southampton and District WWF Group Chairman , Geoffrey Cockrell , when he went along to one of their cheerful , noisy meetings in July to receive a cheque for WWF .
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