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 .
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