Example sentences of "went to [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | I went to a special sports school — not Leipzig , ’ she added hastily , to a nod from Erika who knew very well what Leipzig meant in the athletic world of the G.D.R. , the absolute , superlative top — ‘ but I was a second rater there . |
2 | Have got today ( Monday 17th ) off ( yippee ! ) but have n't done much — slightly hungover from last night , I went to see Tex Mex with Ruth & Euan & some of their friends , the food was great , & so today had a long lie in then went to a few shops … which were n't open because it 's an Edinburgh holiday … |
3 | ‘ I went to a few shops , including Iceland , and to the George pub on Bondgate . |
4 | They were met at the front door by a delirious spaniel , who clearly had no idea of funeral decorum , and they proceeded into the front room , where Bill Clough switched on a bulging orangey imitation-coal electric fire , and then went to a horrible drinks cabinet — all plastic and flashing lights . |
5 | ‘ I thought you were going to undress me very slowly ? ’ she murmured , as his fingers went to the satin-covered buttons on her blouse . |
6 | A few groups of migrants , notably among Germans and Scandinavians , who went to the Great Lakes area of the United States , or the earlier Scots settlers in Canada , exchanged a poor agricultural milieu for a better one : only 10 per cent of the foreign immigrants in the United States in 1880 were in agriculture , mostly not as farmers ‘ possibly ’ , as an observer claimed ‘ on account of the capital required to purchase and stock a farm ’ , ’ the equipment of which alone was reckoned to cost $900 in the early 1870s . |
7 | Of the £194.2 million ( $337.9 million ) in the 1991/92 budget , just over £58 million ( $100.9 million ) went to the four nationals ( Royal Opera House , Royal National Theatre , Royal Shakespeare Company , English National Opera ) and the South Bank Centre , with only £3.5 million ( $6.09 million ) for the visual arts , the main clients being the Whitechapel Gallery in London , the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol and the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford . |
8 | She clutched the rail to steady herself , reached the deck and went to the closed doors of the lounge . |
9 | You went to the Cooperative halls for everything , like that when we were young . |
10 | During the late Seventies and early Eighties , all , or almost all of these places went to the fortunate members of the left 's slate . |
11 | Nuadu 's eyes went to the other captives and Fenella at once said , ‘ Yes , of course , all of you . |
12 | Anyone who went to the tall ships race in Belfast and saw 500,000 people thronging through the city centre day after day could see the determination of the people of Belfast to lead their lives normally . |
13 | Mr Taylor said it was difficult to say why the seat went to the Liberal Democrats . |
14 | I wonder if you went to the industrial companies , and said look , have you got a a , a , a big lot of something and |
15 | They found their mother and went to the Battered Wives Home as usual , this time for six weeks . |
16 | Well a biddy ago now , a Nigerian came to Edinburgh , a student , went to the regular places . |
17 | Henry VII , despite his notorious parsimony , gave rewards to those who went to the new lands , and voyages continued , at least sporadically , until the end of his reign . |
18 | The couple fought a long battle to get welfare benefits but they were unsucessful until Anita went to the new carers ' centre in Banbury . |
19 | This movement mostly originated in the central regions ( the West Midlands and the South East ) and went to the peripheral regions and to the ‘ outer ’ southern regions . |
20 | So the appropriate documents we went to the Croatian Customs who stamped our papers and insisted on giving us each a bottle of orange juice . |
21 | We eventually went to the Austrian Police in an effort to get some assistance and , as good fortune would have it , we met it young Austrian called Thomas who worked at one of the Shipping Offices on the border . |
22 | Putting on my best bedside manner , I went to the cheerful locals . |
23 | When we went to the big competitions all the other schools in the area would be there , all the posh fee-paying schools and the church schools . |
24 | Because of these discussions Mary Law went to the local teachers ’ centre to find out about borrowing video equipment . |
25 | James went to the local police superintendent , one Smith , and asked for 100 police to be billeted on the colliery premises , as , otherwise , the safety men , who were frightened , would not come to work . |
26 | The Americans decided that an armed resistance was necessary and they went to the United Nations , shades of Bosnia here , they went to the United Nations to get support and , as luck would have it , the Soviets were sulking , this was quite common in the nineteen forties and fifties , and the a the Soviet ambassador to the U N was having a sulk and was refusing to attend the Security Council and he therefore persuaded the Security Council to pass a resolution er producing a United Nations force to aid plucky little South Korea against its vicious oppressive northern neighbours and so the Korean war started and the United Nations ' forces were commanded by one General Douglas MacArthur , General Douglas MacArthur , in case you do n't know , won the second world war single handedly |
27 | The Americans decided that an armed resistance was necessary and they went to the United Nations , shades of Bosnia here , they went to the United Nations to get support and , as luck would have it , the Soviets were sulking , this was quite common in the nineteen forties and fifties , and the a the Soviet ambassador to the U N was having a sulk and was refusing to attend the Security Council and he therefore persuaded the Security Council to pass a resolution er producing a United Nations force to aid plucky little South Korea against its vicious oppressive northern neighbours and so the Korean war started and the United Nations ' forces were commanded by one General Douglas MacArthur , General Douglas MacArthur , in case you do n't know , won the second world war single handedly |
28 | They after all , they went to the tiniest details . |
29 | He was appointed to the Survey in July 1889 at the age of twenty-seven , and went to the Northern Highlands of Scotland , where he learned geological field techniques from the experienced surveyors B. N. Peach and C. T. Clough [ qq.v. ] , and where he also developed a lifelong fascination with Pre-Cambrian metamorphic rocks . |
30 | Rain recognized the stale smell , and her glance went to the half-open shutters . |