Example sentences of "went to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The £11 million fetched by the Turner trumps the previous highest price for a work by British artist : in 1990 Constable 's The Lock went to a Swiss collector for £10.78 million . |
| 2 | ‘ We went to a black bookstore in Birmingham , the guy took one look , saw the gun on the cover and said no . |
| 3 | On the next afternoon , as Paul was free , they went to a certain arcade to buy the ring , with Ellen following as always . |
| 4 | ‘ I knew she went to a certain museum but I did n't know where else she went , nor any of her sources , nor what she paid for things . |
| 5 | The court heard that eventually , the police went to a flat and found a tin containing 35 condoms . |
| 6 | At Manchester Ramiz Raja went to a dubious faint edge , and at Headingley some marginal decisions cost the Pakistanis dear . |
| 7 | According to the Glasgow Daily Chronicle , Liverpool officials , ‘ by a curious coincidence ’ , went to a junior cup tie at Parkhead , Glasgow , which was being watched by a group from Aberdeen that included Jackson . |
| 8 | Okay , so they got the base line measurement , thirty five percent people use them , then they went to a variable ratio er token economy system . |
| 9 | Just over a year later , it went to a round-the-clock service . |
| 10 | I went to a small dressmaker in Lillie road with some material brought from Newfoundland on one of the brief dockings . |
| 11 | She went to a small hospital near the house , and a few days later she died . |
| 12 | She parked a pencil in her hair , looked at her wristwatch , compared that with the wall clock , asked us what time we thought it was , then we all went to a small room that housed a phone and an old-fashioned-looking twelve-inch TV set . |
| 13 | Green Fields , Grey Future , finds that 80 per cent of farmers received less than 10 per cent of the Common Agricultural Policy ( CAP ) budget in 1990 ; 37 per cent of the budget went to a small number of large industrial farms , with the rest of the money being spent on storing and disposing of surplus farm products . |
| 14 | His hair curled around his face , and he went to a small basin and swilled water from the tap , rubbing his face and head briskly with a towel . |
| 15 | One particular candidate responding to the survey went to a great deal of trouble to commit his decidedly anti-headhunting views to paper . |
| 16 | ‘ The SS went to a great deal of trouble on the public relations side : there was background music , lorries ready to transport women , children and the infirm , while prisoners were at hand to act as porters ; in short an atmosphere of relative welcome greeted the Jews when they got out of the cattle trucks … ’ |
| 17 | They went to a tiny bar in Piazza Matteotti . |
| 18 | And when the pair went to a recent wedding , Sir Charles spray-painted an old gran 's hat for Lady Jeannie to make it look new . |
| 19 | They went to a strange place , with no piers or fun-fairs or candy floss . |
| 20 | I went to a co-educational school and I was not aware of any pressure for girls to go into arts and boys into science . |
| 21 | He stood up and went to a battered grey filing cabinet , rummaged through it , and grunted . |
| 22 | I went to a Young Pioneer dance in Moscow … . ’ |
| 23 | The greatest applause went to a young researcher who highlighted the poor career opportunities she faced . |
| 24 | Mummy went to a real job |
| 25 | he went to a real |
| 26 | Vera went to a Quaker school in Cornwall and a short time later to school in Letchworth . |
| 27 | The offender and his accomplice went to a sub-post office at nine o'clock in the morning just as the safe was being opened . |
| 28 | Her heart went to a 57-year-old man , her liver to a baby of eight months , her kidneys to a teenage girl and boy , and her corneas were used to save the sight of two people . |
| 29 | Aunt knew her at school ; Aunt went to a posh boarding-school — only for a year or two — and she likes you to know it . |
| 30 | There was a Lot of chanting , and after , wards we went to a posh hotel and I got a free hat . |