Example sentences of "went to [art] " in BNC.

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1 The following evening he went to a different wine bar and bought drinks for two different young women .
2 but then her anger seemed to have woken her and she continued , ‘ I know you went to a lot of trouble over the meal , but my brother 's sexual proclivities are n't any of your business , or mine either . ’
3 In spite of his gift to the sport , Keller was anxious not to abuse his status as President and never went to a rowing event unless invited .
4 Proceeds went to a campaign against the annual slaughter of 900 million migrating birds around the Mediterranean .
5 I went to a shop that sold organic food and bought everything . ’
6 True , he went to a lot of trouble to make his performance as authentic as possible ( 'he wo n't be satisfied till he 's assassinated , ’ friends used to say ) , but in the end what we see is still Massey , not Lincoln .
7 Born in 1909 in New York City to parents who were members of the Ethical Society , he went to a school run by the Society where , under distinguished teachers , he ended up with little knowledge of even how to write correctly .
8 Both women went to a ‘ smoking cessation course ’ the company laid on before the policy went on stream .
9 Castleford are unhappy enough about the £145,000 a tribunal made them pay for Steadman , though even with his presence , they were unable to defeat their neighbours , as the second successive Yorkshire Cup semi-final went to a replay .
10 On one occasion , they locked her in the car when they went to a call and wound up the window to prevent her overhearing .
11 But her outlook was subtly different , say from that of Edward Heath , whose father was a carpenter in a small town in Kent and who , like Mrs Thatcher , went to a local grammar school rather than the private boarding schools favoured by most Tory leaders .
12 At some allotments he went to a shed , with Harry following .
13 He went to a meeting with the party caucus .
14 I went to a lecture on hermaphroditism .
15 He went to a local pub in the mining village where he was staying to drown his sorrows and found himself sitting next to a stranger who remarked on his dejected demeanour .
16 In Stamford , where it was raining , Inspector Burden went to a country house supposedly occupied by a man named McCloy and found it deserted , its doors locked and its garden overgrown .
17 I went to a Young Pioneer dance in Moscow … . ’
18 I went to a special sports school — not Leipzig , ’ she added hastily , to a nod from Erika who knew very well what Leipzig meant in the athletic world of the G.D.R. , the absolute , superlative top — ‘ but I was a second rater there .
19 He stood up and went to a battered grey filing cabinet , rummaged through it , and grunted .
20 I dined four times at various places and went to a drunk party at Worcester in someone 's rooms I did not know .
21 We went to a cold boarding house . ’
22 Five years ago 440,000 young people went to a pub once a day ; the number is down by 150,000 .
23 Anyway , we went out to dinner and then went to a speakeasy .
24 In fact , I went to a couple of record companies and said , ‘ This is me and David Bowie ’ .
25 He went to a Jesuit school , served as an altar boy ( as did his future enemies the Snowman and the Falcon , both now doing time for espionage against the United States ) , and read law at Fordham .
26 The £30,927 ( $53,000 ) prize for winning the London Marathon went to a teacher from Siberia .
27 But at 140 Willey went to a superb catch by Roberts , and at the close they were on 146 for 5 , needing another 114 .
28 I went to a Waffle House diner and bought a newspaper and ordered some breakfast .
29 On one occasion I went to a hospital in south London to what the police reckoned would be a very rough demonstration .
30 I learned that when I went to a conference at Sheffield .
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