Example sentences of "went to [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | When I went to Drake Hall on one sentence I was waiting for another court case as well , a conspiracy case , a big one . |
2 | And when she went to Pot'ma she had the whole and unchipped attention of her man , and when he drove their car and walked with her in front of the shops he had no files , no papers . |
3 | Francis Pym went to Defence ; Peter Walker to Agriculture ; Sir Ian Gilmour also to the Foreign Office ; Norman St John-Stevas became Leader of the House . |
4 | Such likely opponents of the economic strategy as Lord Carrington and Sir Ian Gilmour were banished to the Foreign Office while Francis Pym went to Defence . |
5 | All went to plan , until he was delayed by a revolution in Venezuela , the consequences of which were that Stewart missed the replay which Casuals lost 4–1 . |
6 | Nothing , but nothing went to plan . |
7 | No doubt , if you went to France or America , public and club courts would be available from 7 o'clock in the morning until late evening . |
8 | So we went to France to this huge warehouse in Les Halles . |
9 | Similarly , the hero of The Foreman Went To France ( 1941 , Somewhere in France in US ) has to overcome managerial indifference and bureaucratic obstruction to cross the Channel and recover machines that might otherwise fall into the hands of the Germans . |
10 | A point many be slightly rammed home as when , in The Foreman Went To France , the brutality of the Germans in shooting refugees and bombing cities to kill innocent civilians is several times reiterated , but there is never any point in these pictures where one feels the dramatic structure is being distorted for purely message-directed ends . |
11 | In October this seemingly unbeatable filly went to France for the Prix du Conseil Municipal , and here she met her first defeat , beaten two and a half lengths by the 66–1 outsider Presto . |
12 | In 1939 Morgan went to France at OC2 Air Formation Signals and played a key role in organising telecommunications between the French and British forces : for this he was appointed CBE . |
13 | Earl Douglas Haig , a Lt. General , was put in charge of the British Expeditionary Force that went to France , and he was promoted to Field Marshall . |
14 | There was little money available for luxuries , yet in 1928 a group of children from the Royal Cross School for the Deaf , Preston , made what may have been the first ever educational overseas school trip when they went to France and Belgium . |
15 | From there , five companies , each of 300 men , went to France in the early months of 1940 . |
16 | Having served with the Duke of Wellington 's Regiment in two campaigns on the north-west frontier of India , the Corporal was recalled briefly in 1938 , went to France in 1939 , and spent five days coming out over the Dunkirk beaches . |
17 | At the end of the first year he went to France and Belgium on a two year mission for the Mormon Church , returning and graduating at BYU in 1973 . |
18 | He was a young regular officer , Brigade of Guards , at the start of the war , and he went to France with the Expeditionary Force . |
19 | At first I lived with my mother in Scotland , and then , when I was five , I went to France . |
20 | I went to France to marry the King of France 's son . |
21 | How she had a close friend at school who slept with men from the age of sixteen ; how she first went to France with this friend ; how she hated her first few terms at university ; how she went through a wild phase of drunken parties and desperate affairs ; how she plays the spinet late at night , when no one can hear , and fills the tired darkness with thin plunking antique counterpoint . |
22 | In November 1444 he was among the knights in the English party which went to France to witness the proxy wedding of Henry VI with Margaret of Anjou [ qq.v. ] , and is mentioned as a participant in the dress rehearsal of her royal entry into Rouen in 1445 . |
23 | In 1842 Buddicom went to France to work on the Paris–Rouen railway , which opened in 1843 , and was subsequently extended to Le Havre . |
24 | At the outbreak of war in 1914 he went to France and took part in the campaigns of the Marne and Aisne . |
25 | Marius had a history of heart trouble — you say he 'd had a minor attack before you went to France in the summer . |
26 | The trip was arranged by the Musselburgh Twinning Association and followed a similar exchange last year when seven teachers from Musselburgh and Wallyford went to France . |
27 | He went to France to paint and stayed there for longer than she thought necessary . |
28 | Her father took her with us when we went to France . |
29 | Today Central went to France to check out the check-outs , with a visit to this hypermaket in Calais . |
30 | Roland joined the DLI in 1912 and went to France in September 1914 with the second battalion of the tank regiment . |