Example sentences of "[vb past] gone to the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If he 'd gone to the crematorium mortuary with Alan , there would have been a blank in my mind , as I had never seen it , and anyway it was thirty miles away .
2 Kate said they 'd gone to the army display and mentioned the rations that were taken on Antarctic expeditions .
3 No , he 'd gone to the apartment where Mahoney and Connie lived , found whatever it was , and then paid his visit to the hospital .
4 They 'd gone to the barn with David Harper , Daniel Winter and Wisdom Smith after an evening at the pub .
5 If the house was n't locked , perhaps he 'd gone to the pub to buy his horrible cigarettes or another bottle of Scotch to drown his sorrows — whatever , she did n't think he would have gone far .
6 He 'd gone to the window and pulled the curtain back , looking at the dampness and the wire and the swimming-pool , the surface ruffled by rain .
7 After we 'd gone to the Pit and seen Karr defeat and kill the adept , Hwa .
8 They 'd gone to the loo together by the time I joined Bunny .
9 Fair enough : - I agree that Wilko did a good job breaking in Cantona , and if he 'd gone to the scum then he 'd probably have moved on just as quickly .
10 The boy manservant , George Yaxlee , had said he 'd gone to the stable to meet Leon , the Italian boy , at nine on Friday night ; they had stayed together , first at the stable , then at the darts final at the Dersingham Arms until ten-thirty .
11 " He could have given me a ticking off , considering that he 'd gone to the trouble of telling me that you were coming .
12 She crossed one leg over the other , and he 'd forgotten the incident again until he 'd gone to the car to bring in his brief case and check on the records before they went down to eat and to listen to the Donegal sound of Michael and his boys in the Connemara suite .
13 Not only that — they also thought , because I 'd gone to the grammar , that suddenly I was too snooty to be friends with them .
14 And I said oh when was that and she said just after you 'd gone to the bank and I said oh I 've just spoken to him .
15 If I 'd gone to the rank inside , it would have been the railway police 's case .
16 Er it were in paper about this er this woman she 'd gone to the hospital and she must have been there longer than she thought , and so she 'd got her car clamped and it was thirty pound to have it off but
17 When they arrived at the manse , between twelve and one o'clock on the Saturday , the Reverend , according to Mrs MacAulay , had gone to the church distributing tokens — ; ‘ little pieces of tin , stamped with the name of the parish ’ .
18 We had gone to the Council Offices to obtain permission for him to take it with him .
19 Supposing I had gone to the country and said that Germany was rearming and we must rearm , does anybody think that this pacific democracy would have rallied to that cry at that moment ?
20 He had counted six in the place where they had gone to the pub .
21 He and Gerry had gone to the pub , Karen stayed on the boat .
22 At some stage during her crisis-strewn life Emily had gone to the University of Lancaster to study French but she 'd never completed her course .
23 Like so many times before , he had gone to the window where he stared out across the night sky , his thoughts a million miles away .
24 One of the major problems for us , whichever Party 's in in control , and I think if Councillor had gone to the press after this report was done and , rather than trying to score points and saying it 's all because it 's lack of Government cash , if he 'd appli if he 'd said , let's all get together on this , let's try and solve the problem , the problem 's been going on indefinitely , let's try and s , he might have gained more credibility .
25 Khieu Samphan was injured and he and Son Sen , the two Khmer Rouge SNC delegates , were rescued only with difficulty by police and security forces after Hun Sen himself had gone to the scene to appeal for calm .
26 He had gone to the airfield intending to buy a car but when he checked it out he discovered it was stolen .
27 The second Superbike event was reduced to three laps when a first aider , who had gone to the assistance of Kevin Mitchell who had crashed at Ballysally roundabout , suffered a seizure .
28 Midge and Chris had gone to the back of the green .
29 The in-house survey referred to above found that 78 per cent of the weekend guests had gone to the hotel because they had read it offered leisure facilities .
30 He had gone to the sideboard cupboard where a bottle of whisky was kept for medicinal purposes , drunk what was there , and died .
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