Example sentences of "went [adv] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again and again , Dorian Gray went secretly to the room and looked first at the ugly and terrible face in the picture , then at the beautiful young face that laughed back at him from the mirror . |
| 2 | She went slowly to the refrigerator , took out a block of ice cream , cut three slices off it and put them into glass dishes , then plonked the dishes on the table , during which time a new idea came to her . |
| 3 | Carolyn went slowly to the bedroom . |
| 4 | So when her doorbell rang , she went thankfully to the door to let in her expected visitor . |
| 5 | But Lady Thatcher , who is flying back to Britain from the United States , is apparently unaware yet that she will also be invited to give evidence about the affair which , according to one MP , ‘ went right to the heart of Government ’ when she was in power . |
| 6 | I had one chap who worked for me for over two years without one accident , did n't scratch anything , did everything right , he was a wonderful conscientious man , and then one day he was carrying a big box containing some expensive crockery and he tripped on the top step of the stairs and the lot went down , the whole box went right to the bottom . |
| 7 | Her sense of discipleship went right to the root of her being . |
| 8 | Well , good luck to him ! she fumed , as she shot from the bed , collected her toilet-bag and night attire and went furiously to the bathroom to take a shower . |
| 9 | I went below to the cabin where there were empty bottles on the floor and tobacco smoke filled the air . |
| 10 | We went together to the yard of an old man who bred worms for fishermen and bought a jarful for M. Bluot . |
| 11 | When at last the work was finished , Mina and Kāli packed a basket with some clean clothes and went together to the stream to wash . |
| 12 | In the morning we went together to the bank . |
| 13 | The grindstones went especially to the steel works of Sheffield ( q.v . ) . |
| 14 | … commanded his armie to halt , and himselfe went alone to the toppe where , having sighted the Mar del Sur , he knelt down and raising his hands to Heaven , pouring forth mighty praises to God for His great grace in having made him the first man to discover and sight it . |
| 15 | Soon after that , when the rest had retired , Nicholas went alone to the Palace for his long-deferred interview . |
| 16 | Shelley went outside to the jeep , parked close by in the blazing sun , but turned as Miguel followed her and suggested , ‘ Maybe I could go to the village alone ? |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , if I 'm still here , ’ she murmured under her breath as they went outside to the terrace . |
| 18 | Biting back a sob , she left him shaking the paella pan and went outside to the terrace where the air was fresher . |
| 19 | She went uncertainly to the dresser and fetched a dusty tumbler . |
| 20 | And then Otto went indoors to the piano and played a few bars of Debussy to illustrate a musical idea . |
| 21 | Yep , yep erm these officers are all trained in , in fire prevention work erm at the Fire Service 's technical college at Morton Marsh , and er they practise those skills they learn there over many years erm I 'm looking back , I mean the time that I spent in training schools and er and in , in the job er I suppose when you total it all up it must be two or three years away from home really , er in courses you know , in my day we went away on fire prevention training classes six months , six months ' course was the , so you went away to the Fire Service college which in those days was at Dorking , a lovely place in Dorking , and you did six months there solid , and then nowadays about thirteen weeks , the courses run about thirteen weeks , and you are constantly fire , fire officers from the ranks of erm probably a Sub Officer , leading fireman in some places , but Sub Officer onwards and particularly Station Officer up to the more senior ranks are away on courses regularly for , it 's really updating people erm new legislation coming in , new techniques coming in , erm which have to be these people have to be updated so they are very well trained , erm more so than most local authority people I would think , fire , fire officers are , erm purely because the job is such a wide range of , of things to deal with . |
| 22 | He had led an exciting life in boxing circles before he went away to the war and he did not consider himself to lack nerve , but the plan the little shifty-eyed character was setting out made Billy want to get up and leave right away . |
| 23 | She went downstairs to the kitchen where Rodney was packing food and cookery equipment into cartons . |
| 24 | She left Albert with Mister Johnny and went downstairs to the kitchen . |
| 25 | I went downstairs to the phone in my dressing-gown , pausing only for a second outside Toby 's door to listen for the typewriter , which was silent , and for another moment outside Mavis 's to leave her snuff-box . |
| 26 | Eventually Comfort yielded her place to the Italian and went downstairs to the salon , where she found a slim , middle-aged man with a lined face and grey-streaked dark hair , whom she had never seen before . |
| 27 | Philip went downstairs to the living-room where his Mum was vacuuming . |
| 28 | He went downstairs to the rumpus room and rummaged behind the tiny bar , and , after digging through a seemingly endless collection of empty pop bottles , came up with half a bottle of rye and some ginger ale . |
| 29 | Too happy to feel ashamed of being such a poor guest , too relaxed to worry about anything at all , she found her shoes and went downstairs to the terrace . |
| 30 | Timidly , she went close to the bed and when the invalid stretched out her hand she took it gratefully and sat beside her . |