Example sentences of "gone [adv] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , they 've gone right to the top . |
| 2 | When I went to find her , however , I discovered she had gone right to the top of the house to talk to Heathcliff through his locked bedroom door , and had then climbed out on to the roof and in through his window . |
| 3 | North-East refs have a very good reputation , and give a lot of help to people coming through maybe that 's why some have gone right to the top . |
| 4 | Gone right to the top , the lucky bastard . ’ |
| 5 | Neumeier has gone right to the heart of Shakespeare 's great work , and he has brilliantly chosen both the dance styles and the music to suit the three dramatic groupings of the play . |
| 6 | She had gone right to the bank with them when she 'd discovered he 'd gone . |
| 7 | The Americans were friendly and polite , but there was no mistaking their view that Britain had gone downhill to the point that we had become an irrelevance . |
| 8 | She told her parents how she and Susan had bumped into the two lads from Northallerton and that they 'd all gone together to the Lobster Pot for a drink . |
| 9 | I was listening engrossed to the woman I was walking to work with , who the night before had found two night-screws stretched out on the desk in a passionate embrace when she 'd gone downstairs to the office to ask for a Tampax . |
| 10 | ‘ I am quite sure that the message has gone home to the counties and their bowlers . |
| 11 | The quick-witted will have gone instantly to the heart of the problem : what mysterious attribute distinguishes sport from games ? |
| 12 | Hundreds had evidently gone straight to the station in Prague without contacting the embassy . |
| 13 | Well because A T S had gone straight to the bailiff and the courts to freeze his account . |
| 14 | But the market would be affected , particularly as the disappointed broker had n't hesitated to tell everyone how lucky he 'd been not to drop a packet on Dreadnought , which had gone straight to the bottom like a stone in a pond . |
| 15 | It struck me that in calling me his heavenly brother he had gone straight to the heart of all our missionary endeavours . |
| 16 | If it had n't been so hot , if there had been no row the night before , if Dennis had n't passed out , if I 'd fallen asleep , if any of the others had been there , if Karen had come back later , if she 'd gone straight to the pool rather than taken a shower , if any or all of these had been the case , then intercourse would not have occurred . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's all right — I was n't at all happy about the arrangements either , ’ Laura agreed , before explaining that when Ross had returned to New York he 'd gone straight to the hospital from the airport , before eventually returning to the empty apartment . |
| 18 | If he 'd been following me he would have to have been close because I had gone straight to the camera , and I would have heard him , even in the wind . |
| 19 | She is gone now to the United States to be a specialist . |
| 20 | All those roaring blurs of hissing steam and belching smoke were gone now to the breaker 's yard . |
| 21 | I had said morning Mass , gone across to the house to break my fast then went back to clear the altar . ’ |