Example sentences of "went [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pouring out the coffee with a shaking hand , adding milk and sugar , she went to sit at the table . |
| 2 | Like that deep trog of a bank manager I went to see at the end of my first term at university . |
| 3 | He did not , but went to stand at the window , looking out . |
| 4 | Pushing roughly past him , she went to stand at the window , her back to him . |
| 5 | Luke pushed back his chair impatiently and went to stand at the window , looking down , his back towards her . |
| 6 | However , if all members of a group went swimming at the same time and left valuables unattended , that would be an unnecessary risk where no real precautions had been taken and would be a breach of the duty of care . |
| 7 | Erm I would imagine Tukuse that the the difference that you put in difference that you would get between the reportage , to use a French expression , of Princess Diana 's abdication from public life was probably quite pronounced between say for example the Sun newspaper and the Independent newspaper I would imagine that the Independent newspaper probably did n't play in any great significance , it was probably on the front page , perhaps not with a picture but erm there was a couple of columns of report erm the Independent is famous as being the newspaper which when Prince Charles and Lady Diana got married many years ago , they reported it with a single paragraph saying Prince Charles and Diana , the whole world went made at the Royal Wedding and the Independent had one paragraph , which many people , including myself , said right on . |
| 8 | Er er do you reckon we ought to have had , you kn you know we went over to gas , I toyed with the idea of fetching that do you know , you know when this house were built we went looking at a depot where they 've got all these grates and I took th funnily enough I took the measurements of the breast and er the only one we found was just that dead on look , right across |
| 9 | I went looking at a house the other day and it backed on to a lake . |
| 10 | Who , she wondered , as she went to look at the kitchen , had kept the house in such perfect order ? |
| 11 | The whole train stopped while he jumped down from the dome car and went to look at the laggard . |
| 12 | Such was my astonishment that I stopped kicking the offending mouse and at the first opportunity went to look at the hedgerow . |
| 13 | They went to look at the jewellery piled on a table on the far side of the courtyard . |
| 14 | I returned to Russia recently with my dear friend Ashkenazy and we went to look at the Central School of Music in Moscow , our educational base for so many years , and there it is , a sorry sight of rubble , locked doors and broken windows . |
| 15 | He went to look at the ricks again . |
| 16 | He went to look at the window sill and there was this think it 's about time You did something about these . |
| 17 | We called at Penndon museum which was closed , but looks good , and then went to look at the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway which has plenty of rolling stock . |
| 18 | ‘ I know , because one day when we went to look at the airport I saw water on the other side , by the road . |
| 19 | Instead she got up and went to look at the Labrador . |
| 20 | I 'd like to go on and lo dad went to look at the cathedral . |
| 21 | You know when all this court business is on , and they had two hours at recess so he went to look at the cathedral with Steven and mum mentioned it and , and she said oh I think I 'll go and have a look round she said when all this is over cos dad , suppose he 'll never set foot in Norwich again and I said oh that 's silly cos it 's a , it is a lovely city . |
| 22 | It was Bizet 's Carmen they went to hear at the Opera . |
| 23 | ‘ Remember that time we went dancing at the Rialto ballroom , ’ she would say . |
| 24 | A possible chance of an eagle , or certainly a birdie , went begging at the 13th , where he took three to get down from nowhere but from then on he became a different player . |
| 25 | When she was 18 she went to study at the Royal School of Needlework , where she not only learnt how to identify and date historical embroidery , but also became a prize-winning practitioner . |
| 26 | When the children first went to live at the white house , they talked about Father a lot and were always asking questions about him . |
| 27 | The couple had been inseparable since they first went to live at the home . |
| 28 | So I left , and went to stay at a friend 's . |
| 29 | In return , the Hendersons agreed to open the new ‘ Laura Ashley ’ shop and Bernard and Laura went to stay at the Embassy for the occasion , sleeping in what had become known as the ‘ Laura Ashley ’ room at the Embassy . |
| 30 | He went to assist at a passenger train derailment last year and got trapped in the wreckage . |