Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] go to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But they still worked it that if you were working , of course I went to the Ministry of Supply
2 One afternoon I went to the Chelsea Hotel , to see the 1990 Tarum , shown with hats designed by Philip Somerville .
3 That afternoon I went to the café at Fagurhólsmýri and bought a pair of Tuf workman boots .
4 This inevitable tension which goes to the heart of the matter and which can be fruitful as well as sterile has been paradoxically heightened by the government 's capping of the advanced further education pool .
5 Croom-Johnson J. plainly thought that he is ; one of the reasons advanced for accepting the contentions of the appellant was that , if the law were otherwise , the ‘ well meaning ’ defendant who went to the aid of the police and accidentally obstructed them would be guilty of an offence .
6 In the full face of the ridicule she went to the post office evening after evening , ridicule she willed not to see or notice .
7 Knowing my shortcomings , Mum had taken charge of making curtains for George 's house and a week before the wedding she went to the market to find some fabric for the last pair .
8 Do n't you remember Jules Verne 's story about the professor who goes to the moon and accidentally kills off all its inhabitants because when he goes there he 's got a cold and they 're not used to it . ’
9 VOTING Day came early for some schools in the North-East who went to the polls yesterday in a mock General Election .
10 In a dream I went to the pictures , in Germany I think .
11 Having adjusted the heat and thus satisfactorily disposed of the problem of lunch she went to the bathroom for a shower and then returned to the bedroom .
12 Thus as early as 1915 , " Juvenus " writing in the Scottish Typographical Journal reported that there were " many girls out of work who went to the GPO for Christmas work " ( i.e. Christmas 1914 ) .
13 For example , when we complained about our laundry not getting done at the hotel , and about our rooms not being done , it was Sun who went to the hotel and sorted things out .
14 corridor you go to the studio at the end then the toning tables there .
15 A motorist who went to the aid of a lorry driver whose vehicle was on fire has been killed by another vehicle which hit them from behind .
16 ‘ I kept thinking today how lucky I was , you see , how blessedly fortunate , with all I have , all that is so comfortable , all that makes me so — so much happier than I was , and then this evening I went to the Rectory and when I returned I was in my room and I looked out at the darkness and I thought of you and how lonely you must be after all the company and society you have known just recently and I thought — I thought — ’
17 That evening I went to the Charity Gala Evening in aid of Birthright , and the Keats- Shelley Memorial Association , at the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair which had been opened earlier that day by Prince Edward .
18 Towards evening I went to the doctor 's house to wait for him .
19 The day after her accident we went to the swimming baths so she could have a shower .
20 For a period they went to the cinema together , two or three times a week , afterwards eating at the Venezia in Great Chapel Street , also drinking in the Black Horse , or the Highlander ( now called the Nellie Dean ) or at the French ( originally known as the York Minster but renamed after its association during the war with the Free French ) .
21 It 's gon na cost me a fair bit to get lines to the house I want so I 've got , er I , the problem is with , as dad was saying this morning , the majority of people when they 're starting their business they go to the wall because oh they 're going in for the , oh it 's gon na be a quick sale
22 Or , ‘ Was n't it a scream that afternoon we went to the matinée at the Court and you got a fit of the hiccoughs . ’
23 ‘ In the afternoon we went to the festival concert , the Bach violin and Schubert , that was marvellous , particularly the Bach , it made me feel one could be like that — you would know what I mean ? ’
24 For contrast we went to the glass blowing factory for a demonstration of their skills .
25 The next day I went to the State Bank , and there I was told , ‘ That 's fine , only we ca n't give the money to the person here .
26 One day I went to the swimming pool which had been closed earlier in the year after a near miss by a Tomahawk missile .
27 That night I went to the theatre and when I returned to my hotel , a quiet man in dark clothes was waiting for me .
28 First they are used to show a pause , between parts of a sentence , which makes it for example , when you start off with a subordinate clause , after I 'd cashed my Giro comma I went to the shops and bought some food , or , because of the derailment comma all the trains were running late .
29 Before leaving the station she went to the Ladies ' to check up on her appearance .
30 The answer came on the day she went to the station , to fetch the magazines .
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