Example sentences of "went to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The six condemned to death , with another six who were sentenced to life imprisonment , went to the Supreme Court , whose five judges unanimously dismissed their appeals . |
| 2 | The case went to the Supreme Court , which found against Rory Finegan at the end of July 1979 . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought you were going to undress me very slowly ? ’ she murmured , as his fingers went to the satin-covered buttons on her blouse . |
| 4 | ‘ We went to The Grateful Dead 's house last time we were in San Francisco , the house they had in the '60s . |
| 5 | When the final Sunday dawned , John , Nora , and Sarah went to the early service at St. Martin 's Church in Trafalgar Square and walked down Whitehall to the site , arriving just after eleven . |
| 6 | And of course there was a thing we w a lot of the work in the mills was in or Selkirk and of course you went to the early train in the morning , there was a train from Galashiels to and it was full of workers going to the mills in and of course if you going er to work in a mill there , your , your foreman would come , you would draw the tools , at the , the night before you went to the job , you would take them there to the train in the morning , and meet the foreman and you would go to do the job and the same to Selkirk . |
| 7 | Went to the early morning prayer meeting to see if the Lord would reveal what talents I have , but He did n't . |
| 8 | I went to the early morning prayer meeting with Mum . |
| 9 | He went through to his room and picked up the bag he had packed earlier , then went to the small desk in the corner and took a tiny notebook from the drawer . |
| 10 | No , it 's erm because you , do the same thing over and over again that you find and no have n't got big lots of er , when you went to the small amount of the town . |
| 11 | But I I did take part in it when I was a a boy in school , and that 's a that 's a fair while ago , now right enough , but er er I used to attend the er Well a primary school , I went to the small Grimness school , in the north end of South Ronaldsay , which has now been closed for over twenty years . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ’ ‘ Member we all went to the Great Exhibition thon time at Kelvingrove ? ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She clutched the rail to steady herself , reached the deck and went to the closed doors of the lounge . |
| 16 | and Mark , Mark pulled in , went to Ch went to the Paki shop , come out and started talking to us . |
| 17 | We went to the outside hospital for the ante-natal clinic . |
| 18 | Everybody went to the Cooperative Guild , all the women went to the Co Cooperative Guild . |
| 19 | You went to the Cooperative halls for everything , like that when we were young . |
| 20 | five hundred , five hundred I could only say he was n't , five o'clock last night he was no so he went to the one doctor , so to the erm what 's gon na happen when they when he , when they can go down the doctors that 's first of all go into this and after ten , twenty four hours doing this kind of thing for forty eight hours up . |
| 21 | Mark Carlisle , Christopher Soames and Ian Gilmour left the Cabinet and Jim Prior went to the one job which no politician can refuse , Northern Ireland Secretary . |
| 22 | He studied classical archaeology at Thessaloniki University , and then , during the Second World War , went to the Middle East . |
| 23 | ‘ He was a regular soldier like me , went to the Middle East in 1937 and never came back . |
| 24 | Through the winter of 1940–41 , Lieutenant Courtney trained his Special Boat Section attached to 8 Commando , and with a second-in-command and 15 men he went to the Middle East in February 1941 . |
| 25 | I 've owned a house on the coast for a year or so , and decided to leave the car in the garage there when I went to the Middle East . ’ |
| 26 | During the late Seventies and early Eighties , all , or almost all of these places went to the fortunate members of the left 's slate . |
| 27 | But most attention went to the largest elephant of all , a fifteen-foot-high inflatable which towered over MP Paddy Ashdown — only recently elected leader of the Social and Liberal Democrats — as he officially cut the green ribbon across the door of the Greenpeace-funded Stop Hinkley Centre . |
| 28 | The message went to the largest meeting yet held to discuss what the political parties have to offer research . |
| 29 | Unfortunately it is a very barren group , and when I first went to the southern hemisphere I had difficulty in identifying the pole star , Sigma Octantis , which is only of magnitude 5.5 , and is none too easy to see with the naked eye unless the sky is really dark and clear . |
| 30 | I think that they are only just getting into their stride on this particular issue , because some years ago we had flooding in Worthing , quite severe flooding , so every application went to the Southern Water Authority and we never got back no , you ca n't develop on that area and it was , it was very difficult . |