Example sentences of "went [adv] to [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ellerman & Bucknall ladies team won their heat and then went on to victory in the final . |
| 2 | Cos I went down to Colchester in the July , in the July . |
| 3 | Yeah , I came I went up about a year ago , I remember when I went down to Hertford in the yeah , I said I , I forgot to say what ticket and they automatically give you an adult do n't they ? |
| 4 | From Moana we went down to Hokitika on the Coast , a town which now makes its living largely from the sale of bone and greenstone carving , of high quality and quite reasonable prices . |
| 5 | I dressed and shaved and went down to breakfast under the colonnade . |
| 6 | ‘ It went down to Jim in the path lab . |
| 7 | I am great fan of tennis , especially women 's tennis and a couple of weeks ago I went down to Brighton to the semi-final matches of the Midland Bank Indoor Championships . |
| 8 | Balanchine , Kirstein and Tanning went down to Bournemouth at the end of June to watch a run-through by the company , which was on tour . |
| 9 | Independent Television undermined the BBC 's historical sense of privilege and security : with less than 30% of the national audience — it went down to 27% in the 1950s — the BBC 's position as the main instrument of broadcasting was clearly threatened , as were its claims to the full licence fee . |
| 10 | A few years ago , they went in to Europe with the deliberate aim of sabotaging any tough ban on cigarette advertising , and any insistance on tough medical warnings of the kind that appear today . |
| 11 | John Sinclair , who runs Cliveden so successfully as a luxury hotel , and his attractive wife , guests went in to dinner in the dining-rooms . |
| 12 | They then returned to the Print Room , while guests went in to luncheon in the Great Hall . |
| 13 | In 1978 , I went over to France for the final day of the parliamentary elections , expecting to stay up for most of the night as one would in the UK . |
| 14 | On Aug. 19 he made a dramatic call for resistance , standing on one of the tanks stationed outside the Supreme Soviet building ( 10 tanks went over to Yeltsin on the night of Aug. 19 — see below ; the commander of tanks stationed outside the Russian Supreme Soviet building was reported as saying that he would not order an attack on Yeltsin . ) |
| 15 | ‘ Anyway , ’ she said , ‘ we went over to Corsica for the marriage and that 's when things started to go wrong . |
| 16 | Des Walker went off to Italy in the summer then Clough allowed Darren Wassall , another class defender , to drift out of his contract and join Derby . |
| 17 | Paul Crossland went off to France with the money . |
| 18 | While the Collector went off to bed in the middle of the day , Harry made a round of the Residency wheel accompanied by the giant Sikh , Hookum Singh , festooned in lengths of chain . |
| 19 | She went off to Norfolk with the plumber and his other girlfriend and her stepkids , and it did n't work . |
| 20 | Sandys went off to Washington at the end of January to update himself on the latest US operational thinking and advances in weapon technology . |
| 21 | So they all went off to lunch with the mayor , while a messenger was sent to the Registrar of Births , Marriages and Deaths to get the necessary information . |
| 22 | How smart and glamorous they looked when they went off to London in the evenings , Dad in his suits and Eva with shawls and hats and expensive shoes and handbags . |
| 23 | Which means that from Slains they took some old route perhaps across the Moss of Cruden , then crossed where the A92 runs now , and from the modern A950 , or a comparable road , went up to Strichen through the Forest of Deer : today 's byroads may have been old lanes or drovers ' trails . |
| 24 | I went up to Cambridge in the Michaelmas term of 1921 . |
| 25 | Prices for Koons 's work start at $65,000 ( and went up to $250,000 at the Banality show ) , but there are plenty of takers . |
| 26 | He went out to Romania at the end of last year to see Bogdan after hearing about his plight from Mr Jones . |
| 27 | There 's her older brother , he went out to Australia after the war to my Uncle Steve . |
| 28 | He suggested they went out to dinner on the Saturday at a reputedly excellent roadhouse . |
| 29 | In the end I went back to London to the one person in England where I thought there might be refuge : to my grandfather 's — my great-uncle in fact . |
| 30 | Wallis went back to England with the Duke 's body and , for the first time in her life , she entered Buckingham Palace . |