Example sentences of "went to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went to the parson 's house after dark , and met him near his gate . |
| 2 | So of course I g I was not bidding myself , Mr went to the auctioneer , Mr , he 's dead . |
| 3 | Twelve years later , Brereton again went to the Dogmore , to appease ‘ great tumults of the Tennants ther gathered together ’ . |
| 4 | there is something seriously , seriously queer you know maybe it 's a brain tumour , you know , maybe it 's er I 'm going potty , maybe it 's all sorts of things , and fortunately I er I s I went to the vet and erm two weeks before he retired but you know he , he was full of experience , that 's really what I 'm saying , he would n't be retiring otherwise |
| 5 | The information , collected for the Arts Council by the British Market Research Bureau , shows that in an average period of four weeks during 1988-89 , 6 per cent of the adult population went to the theatre , 4 per cent to an art gallery , 2 per cent to classical music and 1 per cent to jazz . |
| 6 | Well , then we went to the theatre ( I am sorry to make such a letter of it , but is it not like going to one of the Basingstoke Assemblies with Jane Austen ? ) . |
| 7 | It 's fun if you do n't live here and I like the shopping and stuff — I went to the theatre the other night to see An Evening with Gary Lineker . |
| 8 | I went to the theatre , and met people — you know , I never met many people . |
| 9 | On one occasion , when Sarah Bernhardt was the guest of honour at a Savoy dinner , he cooked the greater part of the meal at a side table under her very eyes ; his carving of the duck was a flamboyant display of swordsmanship ; when asked if he ever went to the theatre he replied that he would rather see six gourmets eating a perfectly cooked meal than watch the finest performance of Bernhardt or of Coquelin . |
| 10 | Perhaps he guessed as much : certainly he seems to have been surprised by the success of the play.s But that success was more or less assured : his reputation and authority were such that those who went to the theatre went , as a matter of course , to see Eliot . |
| 11 | One evening , instead of reading alone in my room , I went to the theatre where Mr Wopsle was acting . |
| 12 | We went to the theatre and to dinner and I believe I must have talked and , as I have said , I know I sometimes laughed and I think no one ever knew that I was empty of everything except perhaps madness . |
| 13 | That night I went to the theatre and when I returned to my hotel , a quiet man in dark clothes was waiting for me . |
| 14 | By stating that he rarely went to the theatre , and needed to be forcibly taken there if he went at all , he managed to lay bare the inadequacies of modern drama and defined the conditions of a new sort of drama altogether . |
| 15 | He came back to London on Boxing Day evening , but the vicarage party went to the theatre that night and asked Ianthe Broome to join them . |
| 16 | We do not always go on sporting activities , we also went to the theatre to see , ‘ A Midsummer Nights Dream , ’ by William Shakespeare . |
| 17 | Well I said I think I 'll go to the theatre and off I went to the theatre . |
| 18 | ‘ We went to the theatre where Marie Lloyd was singing . |
| 19 | We went to the theatre in London on the Friday night . |
| 20 | My dad came round when we went to the theatre the other day , he had n't seen it , since we put that picture up . |
| 21 | He went to the middle of the field and spread out a small tablecloth . |
| 22 | An anniversary poem went to the Queen , and many MPs have been recipients of his comments couched in rhyme on subjects from food irradiation ( he 's an opponent ) to saving the Antarctic . |
| 23 | Princess Marie Louise went to the Queen and told her about the scheme . |
| 24 | The Fitzjohn land went to the queen , who was also the main beneficiary of the readjustments to Gloucester 's holdings of de Vere land , enshrined in new letters patent of August 1475 . |
| 25 | Of the land he had surrendered , all the Essex land and Lavenham ( Suff. ) went to the queen and her feoffees , with the rest of the Suffolk land going to John Howard . |
| 26 | The Fitzjohn land went to the queen , who was also the main beneficiary of the readjustments to Gloucester 's holdings of de Vere land , enshrined in new letters patent of August 1475 . |
| 27 | Of the land he had surrendered , all the Essex land and Lavenham ( Suff. ) went to the queen and her feoffees , with the rest of the Suffolk land going to John Howard . |
| 28 | From there he went to the Earl of Denbigh 's garden at Newnham Paddox , and thence in 1850 to Harewood , Yorkshire , then in the course of transformation by Sir Charles Barry [ q.v. ] , whom Fleming assisted in the creation of the terrace garden . |
| 29 | ‘ While King Henry lay in state in Normandy , several barons went to the Earl of Gloucester to ask if he would be willing to take the throne , ’ Guy elaborated . |
| 30 | They went to the taxi rank in a disorderly procession . |