Example sentences of "[adv] gone [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Surely she 's only gone to stay with her family . |
| 2 | Yeah , that 's what Alan said they were away were n't they , she 'd only gone to walk the dog |
| 3 | We happened to meet up that very night , at The Marquee where we 'd all gone to see Thin Lizzy . |
| 4 | When we came away from the chapel I asked the boys if they were pleased that they had all gone to say goodbye to their grandpa . |
| 5 | ‘ Looks somewhat gone to seed . ’ |
| 6 | She 's just gone to see somebody . |
| 7 | Institutions pay either PCAS or UCCA for each student they recruit through their handbooks , which have just gone to press . |
| 8 | She 's just gone to photocopy Simon 's document . |
| 9 | okay just the coffee that 's lovely she 's just gone to get a book for some homework . |
| 10 | A few girls , their escorts already gone to join their regiments , wept . |
| 11 | She suffered one paroxysm of doubt , the first and the last , and a matter of shame to her as often as she remembered it after , when the hour of noon came and passed , and no one sent for her to go into the town and fetch her father to the audience ; and when she ventured to enquire , she was told that one of his Grace 's clerks had already gone to summon Master Parry , and she need not concern herself in the matter . |
| 12 | The girls had already gone to stay with friends , who have a youngster the same age . ’ |
| 13 | Some gave him their life history , then came round to saying that they were in bed , in the back of the villa , in the bath , already gone to work . |
| 14 | Have you ever gone to remove someone and they 've been still been in bed or been having their breakfast or something you know ? |
| 15 | ‘ I have always gone to see her at Kensington Palace — well , I was n't going to see her in a railway siding , was I ? |
| 16 | Oh he 's out the car , he 's probably gone to sit on the bench . |
| 17 | Rhoda had probably gone to see her sister . |
| 18 | The second number of the 1993 volume , which has now gone to print , contains an extra selection of book reviews , and as well as the usual listing it has several other items that will be of interest to anyone who wants to keep up to date with what is being published . |
| 19 | he 's gone now gone to see if his horses have won . |
| 20 | Although the organization , in common with so many , has been forced underground , it is still secretly very active in channelling supplies to the controlled zones , where some members have now gone to work . |
| 21 | I imagined they were old and slow reptiles , too far gone to chase a sprightly private detective around their pit , content just to chew placidly on a hunk of dead cow . |
| 22 | He was too far gone to give a damn about anything . |
| 23 | Certain people , perhaps because they were friendly with one doctor but held a higher opinion of the professional ability of the other , took to carrying cards in their pockets which gave the relevant instructions in case they should find themselves too far gone to claim the doctor they wanted . |
| 24 | They either had too few subjects , too short a treatment , lack of double-blind methods or the subjects were institutionalised and demented geriatrics who were too far gone to show any psychological changes . |
| 25 | She 'd have been too far gone to hear . |
| 26 | Harrison had arrived for the Sports on the previous evening , taken a couple of glasses of beer in the Fish — complimented the landlord on his brew — and then gone to sleep out the night in a barn . |
| 27 | The other is that George shot Lennie because Lennie would have either gone to jail where Lennie could not have coped , or been shot by Curley and never reached heaven with his dreams fulfilled . |
| 28 | And so it came to be that the bewitching gesture of her father 's secretary walking down the golden path ( which bewitched me when I saw the woman in the swimsuit take leave of the lifeguard ) had completely gone to sleep in her . |
| 29 | John was confident enough then to leave Flynn to it and to go off himself to look at the proposed routes of the Waterford & limerick and the Waterford & kilkenny lines , both of which had been authorized by Parliament last year but neither of which had yet gone to tender . |
| 30 | He 's never actually gone to harm Ricky . |