Example sentences of "they [adv] went to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plastics and polymers which came into use between the wars were , or were claimed to be , the first man-made strong materials to come out of chemical laboratories and they rather went to the heads of the chemists , who supposed , not unnaturally , that these polymers were strong because they had put them together with strong chemical bonds . |
| 2 | A world-wide protest movement tried to prevent their execution , but they eventually went to the electric chair in 1927 . |
| 3 | Or perhaps they just went to the pub instead . |
| 4 | So , not only did Anderson 's Dungannon qualify , but they quickly went to the top of the Division Two table and are now making a great bid for promotion . |
| 5 | As for some of these Territorial officers — temporary officers , he labelled them … about as likely to amount to anything if they ever went to war as a commercial traveller or a third rate comedian in a music hall . |
| 6 | Well even m er my kiddies er not An er Joan so much but the others seven o'clock was the latest they ever went to bed . |
| 7 | As time went on , they also went to British Guiana , the Hawaiian Islands , North America and Curação . |
| 8 | They also went to a running stream at midnight . |
| 9 | Ryan , who gave Johanna a pair of satin pyjamas for Christmas , said they often went to the seaside at Great Yarmouth together and he got on well with her parents . |
| 10 | They often went to the park to sit by that lake . ’ |
| 11 | WHEN Fattorini & Sons , of Birmingham , were commissioned to fashion a trophy for a new competition to be run by the Essex Football Association in 1882 they really went to town . |
| 12 | They even went to war together . |
| 13 | They bravely went to ‘ is aid , but fell even before they could reach ‘ im . |
| 14 | They then went to Durham and got £40 worth of gift stamps from Mothercare . |
| 15 | They either went to Hastings or Brighton wherever it was necessary . |
| 16 | But they never went to church , as far as she knew . |
| 17 | All on Stenness , they never went to Harray for there were plenty of fish in Stenness you see . |