Example sentences of "gone [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was glad he had n't gone on to the Reserve after the Armistice , as Tubby had — though , if he had , he would have stayed retired . |
| 2 | Yet the substance had only gone on to the Jockey Club 's list of prohibited substances a mere ten months before Aliysa failed her dope test . |
| 3 | In addition , it believes Encina could have quite conceivably gone on to the ES/9000 mainframe instead of Tuxedo , but thinks IBM 's deal with USL for that technology is effectively a spoiler for Amdahl Corp 's Tuxedo TP system offering on its IBM-compatible Unix mainframes . |
| 4 | After they had deposited their bags at the hotel , itself ramshackle and run-down , they had gone on to the hospital . |
| 5 | I , the only one of his children who had not gone on to the stage , had inherited the famous Breakspear eyes , the Breakspear height , the Breakspear cheekbones , the brooding Breakspear presence that my father had used to break the hearts of unnumbered women . |
| 6 | After buying fresh bread she had gone on to the fish market where boxes full of melting ice displayed what was left of the morning 's catch , much of which she did n't recognise . |
| 7 | After his conversation with the Zoo Curator Mr Wolski had gone down to the eagles and stared into Minch 's empty cage . |
| 8 | and he was let out and first , within twenty four hours he 'd gone down to the South Coast and killed his mother and his girl friend |
| 9 | ‘ We 'd gone down to the Net , the day it happened . |
| 10 | On the few occasions that he had gone down to The priory with the lad , his parents had treated him as one of the family . |
| 11 | She 'd gone down to the seashore with the dogs and there he 'd been , following her . |
| 12 | Had he gone down to the bottom of the hill and worked his way up to Belvedere Road from the south-east ? |
| 13 | After her abortive attempt to break into journalism , she had gone down to the beach , flung off her dress , and plunged into the water at Backyards . |
| 14 | She thought Finn must have gone down to the workroom . |
| 15 | He had gone down to the cells to have a look and discovered that the prisoner was his former schoolmate . |
| 16 | Theda had gone down to the housekeeper , tight-lipped and curt , to ask that these things be remedied forthwith . |
| 17 | You get wet , sweaty , but there 's nothing to dry the sweat off , not sweating and drying off , so they feel clammy , okay , so we 've looked at their colour and we 've felt their skin and we 've felt that it 's horrible and clammy and cold , what about their pulse , we 've gone down to the pulse now |
| 18 | I could have gone down to the café and talked literature with the lads , but there did n't seem to be much point without Jim and Anna . |
| 19 | Rather too pertinent , I thought , for the place 's original dweller , who must have gone down to the Atlantic in a small boat on many a stormy night . |
| 20 | Pete 's gone down to the shop and got yourself a bottle whisky . |
| 21 | See , if you had of gone down to the shop |
| 22 | Douglas Avery had gone in to the bank as usual , after collecting Irene 's clothes , so Juliet knew he would n't be visiting during the afternoon . |
| 23 | Twenty-five years after the war ended a man had gone in to the shop and been told that his treasure was studded with spinels instead of rubies . |
| 24 | Without Fergie 's influence , for example , she would never have gone along to the Berkeley Square night club , Annabel 's , as she did on the night of Prince Andrew 's stag party , with Fergie and comedienne Pamela Stephenson , both of them dressed up as policewomen . |
| 25 | Other leaders have gone over to the Anaheim Vineyard for training . |
| 26 | There are others who are n't even dancing : one who has just gone over to the veranda and plunged his hand into the vat of boiling oil so he could offer a hot puri to a child in tears : another who is standing in the midst of the dancers being continually buffeted as they come and go , and hungrily eating a plateful of raw rice grains . |
| 27 | The same basic principle is used for the tearing apart of Miguel , who has been bitten and gone over to the zombies , letting them into the compound — though they still rip him to shreds . |
| 28 | To Abbott and Hornsby were added the names of Captain Lawrence , with whom Wilson had been associated in the formation of the Certificated Officers ' Union , Maurice Darby , the originator of the first Glasgow branch who was alleged to have gone over to the Shipping Federation in 1890 , Robert Pleasance , former secretary of the Tower Hill branch who had been expelled from the union in the same year , and a Thomas Carey , an official of the NSFU discharged for unsatisfactory conduct in 1911 who , Wilson claimed , immediately became involved with the Federation and , while still in its pay , assisted Lewis in setting up the British Seafarers ' Union . |
| 29 | He 'd gone over to the hedge that ran along each side of the white lodge and he 'd sat down . |
| 30 | Both his father and his uncle had been Stickies , while several younger relatives were reputed to have broken with the official wing and gone over to the Provies . |