Example sentences of "we go to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are we going to a going to John 's er , in afternoon tomorrow ? |
| 2 | Years later , on the day our first child was due to be born , when it became obvious that the birth was not imminent , my husband Roger suggested that we go to a film to take our minds off the event . |
| 3 | Likewise when we go to a country , we need somewhere to stay and over the last decade there have been more and more hotels built in virtually every place in the world . |
| 4 | We go to a solicitor for advice because he knows the law ; to a doctor because she can interpret symptoms . |
| 5 | We go to a chemist and say : get out your textbooks and your calculating machine ; sharpen your pencil and your wits ; fill your head with formulae , and your flasks with methane and ammonia and hydrogen and carbon dioxide and all the other gases that a primeval nonliving planet can be expected to have ; cook them all up together ; pass strokes of lightning through your simulated atmospheres , and strokes of inspiration through your brain ; bring all your clever chemist 's methods to bear , and give us your best chemist 's estimate of the probability that a typical planet will spontaneously generate a self-replicating molecule . |
| 6 | Still more rarely we go to a place simply because of what someone has written about it and that journey becomes both an expression of gratitude and a way of filling a need within ourselves . |
| 7 | We went to a fancy-dress ball , Alice and Ted as Jack and Jill , Otley as Captain Bligh and myself as Dick Whittington . |
| 8 | The only exception to this procedure was on those days that we went to a service in the church . |
| 9 | Tonight we went to a film all about a peasant leader who had to fight against some bad elements in his village , it was good and funny in parts . |
| 10 | We went to a beach north of Frinton and ate ice-cream and rock and hired deck-chairs and Oliver got us to write our names in big letters in the sand and photograph one another standing next to them . |
| 11 | ‘ We went to a pub in Pershore . ’ |
| 12 | And he bou he bought me this top and he bought me a , a polo neck and bought me a C D and then we went out to supper and then we went to a pub and everything and erm , you know , had a really decent conversation with him and just talking to him makes me think , you know , and it dawns on me that he 's just a big he 's just a big child and he 's not , he 's never grown , he 's not , you 're not gon na grow up . |
| 13 | I was short of a few quid to do anything about it so my mate lent me the money , we went to a scrap yard , picked up a spare and he delivered me back here in his motor , then your chaps picked me up . ’ |
| 14 | We went to a seminar |
| 15 | We went to a divorcee colleague of John for Christmas lunch . |
| 16 | and another thing was , we went to a crocodile farm , later on , and they said that they release the crocodiles into the river that we |
| 17 | Then we went to a lake with wooded and marshy shores where we saw several ‘ new ’ birds : a crane flew past , looking like a grey heron except that it carried its neck outstretched in flight instead of ‘ folded back ’ . |
| 18 | One evening we went to a play — a stage production of an Agatha Christie thriller performed by a local concert group . |
| 19 | Afterwards we went to a bar and had some cognac . |
| 20 | When someone says ‘ We went to a bar and ordered a drink ’ , plain men and parsing specialists all agree that the sense of ‘ bar ’ in question is a drinking place and not a rod of iron . |
| 21 | After hours , we went to a bar in Knightsbridge , where one afternoon I met a fifty-five-year-old Italian woman who was wearing white leather flared trousers . |
| 22 | Well we went to a solicitor 's office , what was it Friday morning ? |
| 23 | That night we went to a party given by a magazine editor . |
| 24 | Christmas no new year 's eve we went to a party . |
| 25 | We went to a lot of things |
| 26 | we went , we went to a clay mine W D , W D B what 's |
| 27 | In the afternoon we went to a barbecue at our son 's house , and then , after a shower and a rest , we were off again to a buffet and reception in the town hall . |
| 28 | We went to a place that was called ‘ Judges ’ . |
| 29 | I remember we went to a place about three miles from school , to a place called Sugarloaf Farm . |
| 30 | Well , we went to a place called Figueres |