Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb past] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps they objected to the destruction of Buckingham and the web of deceit to which they 'd been party ? ’ |
| 2 | So they went to the village . |
| 3 | Together they tottered to the door . |
| 4 | Together they went to the milk-house . |
| 5 | Together they went to the window . |
| 6 | He pulled her from the room and together they went to the master suite . |
| 7 | She took Martha 's hand and together they went to the terrace where her mother was resting on a new cushioned lounger . |
| 8 | Together they went to the drawing-room . |
| 9 | Together they crashed to the floor , and then rolled apart . |
| 10 | Once inside they went to the card index . |
| 11 | Soon they returned to the poteau mitan clutching a struggling figure who was bound with ropes of sisal cord . |
| 12 | Quickly they returned to the train and once more started off . |
| 13 | Off they went to the corner of the street to see if they could see anything . |
| 14 | They traversed lush apricot orchards without comment ; they ignored a shepherd holding out a bowl of milk ; wordlessly they returned to the village where Miss Fergusson , her calculated civility now restored to her , asked the elder if lodgings could be supplied to them without delay . |
| 15 | Later they went to the scene of one of the most bloody battles in the 1950–53 Korean war affecting British troops . |
| 16 | One of the defining characteristics of a public good is non-eccludability : once the benefit is produced , it is accessible to everyone , however much or little they contributed to the result . |
| 17 | Well they wrote to the Chief Constable |
| 18 | ‘ Certainly it is a very poor play — but what a challenge for the actors and how well they rose to the occasion . ’ |
| 19 | And now they have an added attraction a few weeks ago they danced to the music of the 14-piece Cleveland Orchestra in a first for the group . |
| 20 | Sometimes they went to the cinema , sometimes they sat in coffee bars holding hands across the table , sometimes they walked in the park , and on Saturdays they almost always went to the dance . |
| 21 | Sometimes they went to the harness maker . |
| 22 | Then they returned to the destroyer . |
| 23 | to see them at the Dinosaurs Alive and then they went to the museum . |
| 24 | Then they turned to the headmaster and launched into the topic all three of them had closest to their hearts : the Fromes ' only son . |
| 25 | Too and who knows how they went to the road . |
| 26 | You remember the American astronauts , how they went to the moon and came back totally changed by looking at the earth and seeing it like just any old planet all small and a long way away ? |
| 27 | Instead they pointed to the growth in development funds contributed from abroad , which accounted for about 80 per cent of the development budget at the beginning of 1990 . |
| 28 | That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week . |
| 29 | She had wanted it since last Christmas when they went to the pantomime in Dublin and she had seen the girls on the stage dancing in pink velvet dresses like this . |
| 30 | The legates were first received by Archbishop Jaenberht at Canterbury , from whence they journeyed to the court of Offa , who received them most favourably , and Offa , together with Cynewulf , king of the West Saxons , came together in a council where papal letters directing attention to the need for reform in the Anglo-Saxon Church were consulted and promises of reform made . |