Example sentences of "went [adv prt] to the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The loss of his favourite local was quite enough punishment to this patriot so ‘ Found in the coal yard ’ went on to the documents . |
| 2 | The stockings they knitted went on to the feet of the British Army , and so great was the demand and so determinedly was it met that the Romantic writer Southey called them the " Terrible Knitters of Dent " , terrible meaning not bad but fierce , terribly good . |
| 3 | Ninety three members and friends then went on to the Headlands Hotel for a celebration dinner where all the ladies received a white carnation . |
| 4 | She thought the remark was odd but before she had a chance to query it the attendant 's phone rang and as he disappeared Rachel went on to the changing-rooms . |
| 5 | We went on to the marshes with the soldiers and found the escaped convicts fighting each other . |
| 6 | Later in the afternoon Owen went along to the bearers ’ room . |
| 7 | I really only went along to the interviews for a lark , as company for a friend . |
| 8 | Jenny 's daddy did n't know how to thank her enough , either , when he came up — especially when he and Miss Clinton went down to the Brownies ' Bridge and saw the swollen river and realised how very brave Jenny had been to cross it . |
| 9 | From that point on he only went down to the hospitals ‘ as and when required ’ . |
| 10 | Hob and Jack said goodbye and went down to the boats too . |
| 11 | Which the authorities could not understand , because everyone knew that at lunchtime Mr Wolski always went down to the benches by the Cages and ate his sandwiches looking at the eagles . |
| 12 | So I think he went down to the stews and bawdy houses along the river . |
| 13 | He went down to the docks to buy a lorryload of timber going cheaply , had the building sandblasted and refitted , and insisted on some adjustment of the merchandise to suit the customer profile . |
| 14 | Then , partnered by Brian Storr ( Staffordshire ) , he went through to the doubles final , to be outdone again by Davis and his partner Ahlers , both from the USA . |
| 15 | I went over to the screens to see if there was a movie on anywhere . |
| 16 | We were told , because of the shortage of paper , we were told only to use secondhand papers er paper that had already been used for letters or memos when writing to the Clerks ' Department and erm we erm used to get the grubbiest paper that we could and then you had to condense it and type it erm without too much space and erm that went over to the Clerks ' Department , then erm when it got over th oh sorry you had to trim off the edges erm so that there was no spare paper left around the memo so that er you know there was just this little bit of paper with the |
| 17 | The Doctor went over to the marbles , found a jack and started to play a solitary game . |
| 18 | ‘ My daughter 's dog an Alsatian called Prince went over to the men but we called it back when they said they 'd kill it . |
| 19 | As Penny went over to the drinks table the headmaster was in full spate . |
| 20 | Some then went off to the latrines behind the back of the hall , which Charlie thought smelled worse than the middle of Whitechapel Road on a steaming summer 's day . |
| 21 | I went off to the doctors , she said I had and I was upset |
| 22 | By Sunday morning , though , they had both their parents ' blessing , and Sebastian went off to the Greens ' house to get more details of the flat from Rosemary . |
| 23 | Taking a hint from the fame and antiquity of Egyptian flax working , Roberts went off to the banks of the Nile to study the Temple of Karnak , and came back to build Mr Marshall a factory in like fashion , which soon became known , naturally enough , as the Temple Mill . |
| 24 | The workhouse master reported that Connolly then put his boots on and went off to the police station to make a complaint of assault . |
| 25 | I could see his bright ginger head bobbing about four rows in front , and then his class all went off to the baths , and by the time he was back I was in triple needlework . |
| 26 | We went up to the Downs and at least I stayed in the saddle , and felt indeed a new sense of being at home there , of being at ease . |
| 27 | When I was in the same area again last week ( w/c July 5 '91 ) I went up to the shelters one evening and cleaned out all the rubbish prior to spending the night there . |
| 28 | The priest came through the sacristy door in soutane and surplice and Moran went up to the rails . |
| 29 | Then I skipped downstairs and went out to the wheels , locking the back door behind me . |
| 30 | Tom left the room on a laugh and went out to the nurses ' station , almost bumping into Bill Hamilton on the way . |