Example sentences of "went [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arthur went to confirm the booking , and gather furniture for us . |
| 2 | Next day Elspeth went to mount the horse again , but this time she was chatting to a friend instead of listening to the horse . |
| 3 | ‘ Coming back to Sara : she went to post a letter , took a little walk in the rain , heard nothing , saw nothing and said nothing about it because she felt silly — is that it , sir ? ’ |
| 4 | One man and his dog Spot went to mow a meadow . |
| 5 | She claimed that one of them went to headbutt the man . |
| 6 | I went to see a friend in Regent 's Park that evening but she was n't there , so I climbed the railings into the park , crossed the grass , and settled under an oak tree … |
| 7 | Simone Lantain , who lives in London , went to see a healer who could see into past lives . |
| 8 | The Manager of the Grand Theatre , Leeds , went to see a school dance production , and was impressed by the quality of the work and offered his theatre to the educational establishments so that they would try to reach a wider audience . |
| 9 | So , I went to see a hypnotist . |
| 10 | I went to see a patient , a , a , a woman who 's husband had died they 're a pa a pain because you want to ring nine nine you 've got to take the darn lock off , there 's er trying |
| 11 | She and Bill went to see a litter of pale , yellow puppies and Marjorie fell in love with the smallest bitch . |
| 12 | We had so many breakdowns and strange things were going on that one of the guys went to see a medium in Germany . |
| 13 | ‘ The last time I went to see a specialist about my knee , I was ready to pack it in if he 'd told me I was facing another year out . |
| 14 | When she had n't conceived again by the following autumn , Lindsay went to see a specialist . |
| 15 | Carl and his mother went to see a performance of Les Miserables in London , and he told her afterwards that he wanted to play the part of Gavroche , the young Parisian urchin . |
| 16 | I went to see a film last month and the film told me . ’ |
| 17 | I do n't think I would ever do such a thing again , but when the depression settles on me I 'm very vulnerable , and if I went to see a film and it had a drowning sequence in it , or swirling water , then you just ca n't tell . |
| 18 | ‘ I went to see a film at Penzance . ’ |
| 19 | Quite recently Jack , my mother and I went to see a film called Enemies : A Love Story , a story of three Holocaust survivors set in 1940s New York . |
| 20 | So I went to see a man in Devonshire Place and he sent me down the road for a barium meal X-ray . |
| 21 | ‘ You went to see a man last night . |
| 22 | I 've , I 've just been reading here some books that I 've got upstairs , and stuff , and I I I went to see one of erm Shakespeare 's erm , I went to see a Midnight Summer 's Dream |
| 23 | I went to see a debt counsellor and she agreed to come to the bank with me . |
| 24 | It was in the gloaming on Thursday that the brave young fellow 's father became alarmed by reason of his son not returning , and the distressed parent went to see a neighbour . |
| 25 | Well , with my interest intensifying , I went to see a number of other black sportsmen who had achieved a measure of success to compare their perceptions and experiences . |
| 26 | Instead , off her own bat , the girl went to see a solicitor in Newton Abbott , Devon . |
| 27 | While Julie was still in hospital after Maisie was born , Grant went to see the film Buster in which Julie played Great Train Robber Buster Edward 's wife . |
| 28 | Nichols went to see the play a second time , then a call went out to Dustin 's agent , and arrangements were made to fly the actor out to his home town for a screen test . |
| 29 | The Queen 's Men came to Stratford in June , and we went to see the play . |
| 30 | On 8 April 1952 the patronage secretary went to see the Archbishop of York . |