Example sentences of "she [vb past] go [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A neighbour told him she 'd gone off to see her daughter that morning-that would be the Thursday — and would be back in a couple of days . ’ |
| 2 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 3 | Perhaps she 'd gone out to get some shopping , he thought . |
| 4 | Finally , when the walls of Amal 's room began to vibrate from the sounds of the bass from the stereo , she decided to go downstairs to ask her brother and his friends to turn down their music . |
| 5 | One of the survivors told me that her mother " never worked " , but it later emerged that she did go out to clean offices . |
| 6 | Jaswinder Kaur , a Sikh girl from such a family , described , in Oppression of South Asian Women Vol I , 1977 , what she had to go through to get to college : |
| 7 | Since the advent of Felicity , she had gone up to sleep in the attic — an arrangement she preferred , as she had absolute privacy up there , and as luck would have it , there was an electric fire , so that she could use it as a study . |
| 8 | Just before she had gone up to rest and change for dinner , Robert 's daughter , Alice , had come down to see the company . |
| 9 | Glasser talks of her as if , in walking out , she had gone on to walk the streets . |
| 10 | When the food was all served and before the entertainments began , she had gone over to speak to him . |
| 11 | She had gone away to escape Lowell , but the cottage was part of both of them and it was demanding her presence . |
| 12 | After delivering my message to him under a plate on his dinner tray she had gone outside to sit under the tree in the warm evening air . |
| 13 | She had gone back to sleep when he 'd agreed to come , and she 'd woken warm and fuzzy , naked in her narrow bed . |
| 14 | One woman described how she had gone back to work after the death of her husband , determined to be brave . |
| 15 | Last weekend she had gone home to visit her parents , and had come back with a huge bag crammed with brightly wrapped parcels from her mother and father , her three older , married sisters , and all the nieces and nephews they had produced between them . |