Example sentences of "went to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They went to Tanzania for 17 years following Orton 's sacking as a cabinet minister after a dispute with the President , and lived there for 17 years . |
| 2 | The delegates went to the border and spent three days there screening hundreds of people and conducting in-depth interviews with many of them . |
| 3 | There are numerous examples of the poor quality of court-appointed lawyers ; John Young went to his death even though his trial lawyer had signed an affidavit admitting he had been ill-prepared at trial due to drug use , the recent break-up of his marriage and the discovery of his own homosexuality ; another attorney had his breath checked by the judge for signs of alcohol , another was found to be in contempt of court after arriving back from lunch drunk … and so I could go on . |
| 4 | Even when I went to prison it was n't explained to me . |
| 5 | His attorney had managed to get him to take them up again and I went to the prison to have the necessary papers signed . |
| 6 | We can return for a moment to talk to the girl who went to Italy , and was overwhelmed by Michelangelo 's Sistine Chapel ceiling . |
| 7 | The literary naturalism of the last century went to the poor and itemised their way of life , producing for adversity truthful , distressing inventories and interiors — as in George Moore 's novel of the Nineties , Esther Waters , which starts with a manor-house , servants and horses , and travels to Soho for compulsive gambling and a fatal cough . |
| 8 | If I went to night school I 'd be a student . |
| 9 | I went to Northampton to try and get a mortgage . |
| 10 | When I went to drama school it was all very new to me so I did n't have any real comparisons to make — which is a good thing . |
| 11 | You went to Hornchurch Rep for your first job ? |
| 12 | I went to drama school having done all the correct things that drama students are supposed to ignore — like going to public school ( Wellington ) and dressing in conventional clothes . |
| 13 | When I went to Webber Douglas they practically fell on any man as a rare species . |
| 14 | When we went to Siena together ? |
| 15 | Marion , a ripely handsome woman in her mid-thirties , who had played a season at Stratford-on-Avon and toured as Mrs Tanqueray , was extremely displeased at having to share Jessie , let alone a dressing-room , and particularly with a chit like Bunty ; but the Regent was small and naturally the two Star dressing-rooms , 1 and 2 , went to Salt and Pepper , that perennial and professionally married pair of comedy-thriller performers whose productions never ran for less than a year — a godsend in a profession where rehearse for three weeks , open and close in two was not unusual . |
| 16 | When those silly women went to the downstairs powder room , I saw them go . |
| 17 | Anyway none of us went to Harpington shooting yesterday . |
| 18 | He pulled rank and went to bed at half past eleven , leaving me on for the late-night drinks . |
| 19 | I was the one around just before they all went to bed . ’ |
| 20 | In the event the persons who wanted to talk to Henry Tyler went to the Foreign Office to see him — where they found his rank to be rather higher than that of errand-boy . |
| 21 | I went to Florence to do the Uffizi . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Dorothy , it 's time we went to Final Assembly . ’ |
| 23 | John came around to my flat after work one day , one thing led to another and we went to bed together . |
| 24 | I have n't had any for years — not since I last went to Rome probably . ’ |
| 25 | the bourgeoisie erected an ideological barrier around those who went to prison … [ an ideology ] about crime , criminals , theft , the mob , degenerates , ‘ animals ’ … which was in part linked with racialism … |
| 26 | After an eight-hour shift we went home — off duty — free men , while they in contrast went to their police houses and were available for ‘ discretional duty ’ , at the call of the system twenty-four hours a day ; proving we were independent free men and they were slaves ! |
| 27 | He told her she had a lovely body and when she went to bed with him , she said ( he 'd find out about it anyway and drop her ) : |
| 28 | Jay never went to conferences , but as she accepted a lift with Lucy , he smiled with open pleasure . |
| 29 | Last time I went to the hairdresser 's I was so crippled with period pains I drank three instant g & t's on the bus . |
| 30 | So we went to bed . ’ |