Example sentences of "had [adv] gone to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not in front of the children but later , when they had all gone to bed and to sleep . |
| 2 | Dolly , Tom and Carrie had all gone to bed , but Seb 's knocking brought Tom to the bedroom window complaining about being disturbed at such a late hour . |
| 3 | He had only gone to Karlovy Vary to deliver a package — and look at the time , nearly four o'clock ! |
| 4 | She closed the living-room door before answering , even though Dickie had long gone to bed . |
| 5 | Peggy hurried off to Elizabeth 's house , but there she learned that Elizabeth had already gone to Horsfall Woods . |
| 6 | Michael Jordan of Cork Gully and Timothy Beer of Peat Marwick McLintock said they had recovered £13.2m of the missing deposits but £5.5m of this had already gone to liquidation costs and legal fees . |
| 7 | My mother had already gone to bed . |
| 8 | She managed to control herself and fortunately Dr Neil was as quiet as she was , and when they reached Vetch Street Matey had already gone to bed . |
| 9 | To meet new people meant a lot to me because those of my Fontanellato friends who had not gone to school in Parma had already started work . |
| 10 | Roy had given Paul Nesbitt a note of the board requirements — horizontals and verticals — in early September , but the information had not gone to Harry . |
| 11 | One could hardly assume that he had not gone to church out of piety and because it was Ash Wednesday , Ianthe thought , but it was rather puzzling and disturbing to think that she could n't even attend to her devotions in peace . |
| 12 | So John Emburey was handed the captaincy that could well have been his years earlier if he had not gone to South Africa in 1982 , thereby losing the Middlesex captaincy to Gatting after Mike Brearley retired . |
| 13 | Lowe had not gone to Canada for just academic reasons . |
| 14 | Undoubtedly , such a milestone was passed in December 1965 , when the recently appointed Monsignor Harris , who at that time had just gone to London as the Senior Roman Catholic Chaplain to the prison service , was invited by the holy see , to become an Auxiliary Bishop in his native diocese of Liverpool . |
| 15 | Assistant Chief Constable David Mellor , aged 52 , who is shortly to take up a post as deputy chief constable of South Wales , had just gone to bed when a device planted below the window of a living room exploded at 1.20am . |
| 16 | He and his wife had just gone to bed . |
| 17 | On another occasion , Mr Reynolds had just gone to bed when he had the feeling that there was a fire on the site . |
| 18 | ‘ All that 's fine , ’ I said , though I was n't particularly interested in the vows of a child who had just gone to boarding school . |
| 19 | She had just gone to pieces and she had caused it all herself . |
| 20 | In fact on the day they signed the contracts with Wonderland for the King 's Hall they had just gone to No 1 in the charts with their new album . |
| 21 | Alyson , of Hazel Court , Middlesbrough , said she had had minor illnesses , but had always gone to school . |
| 22 | After losing his wife he had nearly gone to pieces ; yet they had been married six years . |
| 23 | The contract had originally gone to China , who along with Japan and the Soviet Union , was keen to enter the Western launch market . |
| 24 | Now Mrs Thatcher had originally gone to Peking just after the Falklands war , full of vim , and taken a hard line . |
| 25 | This evening had n't gone to plan . |
| 26 | He had n't gone to Auntie 's funeral — children often do n't . |
| 27 | Most probably if he had n't gone to Hollywood that would never have happened . |
| 28 | Scarlet had found it all very puzzling and upsetting : she could n't envisage herself telephoning her first husband 's second wife to complain about her child — even if they had n't gone to Australia . |
| 29 | He recalled that the president had n't gone to Gromyko 's funeral . |
| 30 | She had cleared for Antwerp , where she spent a couple of days , and had then gone to West Africa , calling at several ports before returning to Antwerp . |