Example sentences of "went [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN her article on car recycling , Liz Moore claimed that in the Eighties , scapped cars went eventually to landfill sites . |
| 2 | I went away to university and made some new friends , and John and I finished . |
| 3 | No you don't. because er I naturally I went away to work but er I was born here and er you see and , and wh what else did you want ? |
| 4 | Only I went away to work then aye and er was n't coming home very often . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , it hit the upright and went away to safety . |
| 6 | The uncles and aunts presumably knew but Stephen himself had n't heard a word of him since he went away to college in London when he was eighteen . |
| 7 | She took the lift up to the sixth floor and came to the room one O nine , which was her room , as she entered she noticed cobwebs and dampness on the walls , she flung her bed , bags on the bed and went downstairs to supper , after her supper she went to report , she went to the reception desk to report the cobwebs and dampness , she rang the bell a few times but no one answered , she was just about to go back to her room when she heard Mr Sandy the receptionist in the back room talking to her assistant , I put the body in Miss Hall 's wardrobe , Jane ran upstairs and sure enough there was a body , Jane rang the police then straight away , please could you come to the Riverside Hotel , there 's something I think you should see , there was a knock at the door and Mr Sandy answered it , hello , oh hello we 've just had phone call from here , are you sure this is the right hotel ? |
| 8 | A couple of hours later , having showered and changed , they went downstairs to dinner . |
| 9 | What they found liberating was Surrealism 's sanctioning of an art based on personal reality ; and in their quest to express this interior landscape these women went directly to source : to their own bodies . |
| 10 | At Easter and Christmas I still went home to Cliff Top . |
| 11 | She would imagine calling him up to her room every night before he went home to bed with a man , and taking her silver hairbrush from her desk and brushing his hair out like a daughter 's , one hundred strokes every night . |
| 12 | So hungry was he for the role that , instead of going for treatment , he went home to bed . |
| 13 | Soon the lawyer said goodnight and went home to bed , where he lay awake for a long time thinking about Enfield 's description of Hyde , and Doctor Jekyll 's will . |
| 14 | He completely forgot about young Mabel and at the end of the day went home to bed . |
| 15 | Hank went home to lunch . |
| 16 | We all went home to lunch in good spirits , and the ‘ open-door schooling ’ , far from being a chore , was a pleasant outing . |
| 17 | And he and my mother had a disagreement about this and er the result was that my father became very ill and I went home to Grandma . |
| 18 | When she went home to tea with them she ate delicious food . |
| 19 | Only amongst his enemies , the French , would there be men like Karelius , who went forth to life or death alone , without a God or prayer . |
| 20 | , Sir William ( 1745–1816 ) , vice-admiral , had obscure origins : neither his place of birth nor his parents are mentioned in the Naval Chronicle 's report of his death , but it is probable that he went early to sea , since on joining the Dolphin on 8 July 1766 he was rated able . |
| 21 | I made and ate supper , washed up , then watched the changing view of evening from the haven of the cottage window , and went early to bed . |
| 22 | They managed to part that night with no more than a friendly kiss , but the following evening when Mrs Wallington again went early to bed was more difficult . |
| 23 | The Sunday after they came back from the West Indies , he and Sara and his mother — who was living with them now in a room not much larger than a cupboard , although the view , as Simon constantly said , was staggering — went formally to lunch in their old house . |
| 24 | She fell down on the mattress and went instantly to death . |
| 25 | As for his goodness , the attempt to live a Christian life was so much a part of Irwin 's public persona that the legend became current that , arriving in India on Good Friday , he ignored the official ceremonies of welcome and went straight to church . |
| 26 | It was pretty late and I was tired , so I found my old room and went straight to bed . |
| 27 | We both wobbled then , through hours of stones and velvet dusk to the hut , where Sal went straight to bed , leaving me with two soups , two teas and a bottle of wine to deal with . |
| 28 | When Sgt Betty Hawkes returned from 34 HQ Communications , she went straight to bed . |
| 29 | ‘ I just came home , let myself in by the back door and went straight to bed . ’ |
| 30 | I went straight to bed but , of course I did n't know that my uncle was n't home . ’ |