Example sentences of "went to [noun prp] [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the outbreak of war in 1914 he went to France and took part in the campaigns of the Marne and Aisne . |
| 2 | But if I went to Joyce and told him that his men were doing something that was n't fair to the police , trying us too hard or interfering with our time off , he 'd have his men right off that job in half an hour and there 'd be no grumbling . ’ |
| 3 | And then the day after we got our record contract , I went to Selfridges and had both my ears pierced . |
| 4 | I could n't stand any more , so I locked myself in my bedroom and in the morning I went to Newhaven and got on the boat . |
| 5 | The boss went to Calgary and gave me the day off . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Just a minute , ’ Laura , partially recovered , went to April and placed a hand on her mother . |
| 7 | She then went to Ibiza and made similar claims against four men . |
| 8 | I went to Dubai and called on several prominent figures who had known him as a local businessman . |
| 9 | I went to Grenoble and discovered they had a small project on the outskirts , which had been a piece of wasteland ; they ploughed it all down , replanned it , had a complete new housing estate , hotel , the lot , in less than five years , where the City Council would be thinking about which bit of land to use , what to put there , how to do it , and ten years later they might think about producing a plan , and ten years after that ( that 's twenty years on ) something would appear . |
| 10 | The Scots stopped short , went to d'Oysel and told him ‘ that in no wise would they invade England ’ . |
| 11 | And I want to see more of France — I had a ball there — but after Paris I went to Spain and got really ill . |
| 12 | Although the date , like that for the Rome trip , should not be pressed , the Chronicle E text ( D is less detailed ) says that in 1031 Cnut went to Scotland and received the submission of three kings , Malcolm ( II , 1005 – 34 ) , Mælbæth and Iehmarc . |
| 13 | They went to Chester and wandered round the medieval Rows , then took a rowing boat on the River Dee . |
| 14 | I went to Miami and booked myself aboard a late-night Pan American jumbo jet to Panama City , arriving shortly before dawn in the pullulating and insufferably hot shanty-capital sprawling beside that most famous of all entrances to the world 's greatest of seas . |
| 15 | I did that until Elvis came out of the Army , and then we went back to work with him , went in and did the sessions , did an album in Nashville , got on a train , went to Miami and did the Frank Sinatra show . |
| 16 | We went to Mozambique and asked Mozambican journalists to write and Mozambican artists and photographers to illustrate what is really happening in their war- and famine-torn country . |
| 17 | THE CLASH went to New York and got snapped with ROBERT DE NIRO ; THE POGUES went to LA and got MICKEY ROURKE ; the Poppies , in their own inimitable manner , went to Australia and got that JOE MANGEL git out of Neighbours ! |
| 18 | As you know we went to Denmark & got to know & especially our niece , , again . |
| 19 | Following the annulment of his marriage to Rosalli Gabrielli he went to Ireland and married yer mother , Sheila Connor . |
| 20 | Everyone else had gone to Japan and I was still in New York trying desperately to get a visa for Russia but I could n't get one , so I convince Tony deFries that if I went to Japan and went to the Russian Embassy in Tokyo , they 'd be so confused by an American applying for a visa in Tokyo 's Embassy that i could fake it and get one , and he said I was welcome to try . |
| 21 | Recently Argentina 's economics minister went to Brazil and asked the Brazilians to buy more Argentine wheat to help restore balance . |
| 22 | Two Ryder Cup matches were won outright , another halved ; the Curtis Cup team went to Hutchinson , Kansas in 1986 and won , and defended successfully at Royal St George 's , while in August of this year the Walker Cup team , quite improbably , went to Atlanta and won the Walker Cup . |
| 23 | But West Brom had a very good win this afternoon , they went to Blackburn and won three nil , so West Brom have leap frogged over both Oxford and Charlton ; they 're now in sixteenth place and Charlton drop to seventeenth , Oxford United to eighteenth with thirty two points . |
| 24 | I went to Brighton and saw for myself the absence of most of the top players due to other events taking place . |
| 25 | From these depths , England went to India and pulled off a remarkable triumph after losing the first Test , and then beat Australia 3–1 in 1985 . |
| 26 | I went to Newark and got a job at , a ball bearing factory , and er they paid me the handsome wage of er two pounds sixteen for forty seven hours . |
| 27 | So when , a few years later , Céline abandoned Adèle and ran away to Italy with a singer , I went to Paris and brought Adèle back to grow up in England . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Our noble king , ’ Agrippa continued , ‘ in his youth , went to Paris and visited the Chateau de Maubisson . |
| 29 | He then went to Paris and occupied the throne of his uncle Charibert . |
| 30 | In 1870 he went to Manchester and became assistant first to J. C. Calvert and then to ( Sir ) Henry Roscoe [ q.v . ] . |