Example sentences of "went in [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hysterical residents , many of them in their nightclothes , raced from the block as the fire brigade went in to quell the flames . |
| 2 | Peering down dubiously at the envelope , Monica departed to the bus-stop in the main road , and Alice went in to join the others around the table . |
| 3 | She did not see Joe for a few days and then one Friday as she walked past she saw him in the teashop and went in to join him . |
| 4 | I went in to watch the day 's most elegant event … the private driving competition . |
| 5 | Marsden batted first but was dismissed for 15 and after a short rest Sampson went in to bat . |
| 6 | He turned his back and went in to say goodbye to his wife . |
| 7 | when he went in to hire or buy a television , they |
| 8 | and I once went in to collect some and erm , I think it was Mrs said oh good have you come to take them away or something like that cos there was , there were n't many left in the school so I |
| 9 | No need for secrets , so Mrs Files telephoned her daughter straight away , then told Frank Grimwood who came by with four brace of partridge from yesterday 's let shoot ; who stopped Alec on the tractor with a load of silage behind ; who met Tom in the grainstore ; who found Mary in the estate office when he went in to fill out his time sheet ; who confided in the postman when he came with the afternoon mail ; who amazed Mrs May in Forester 's Cottage when he delivered her Freeman 's Catalogue and a postcard from her son holidaying in Pouket ; who stunned her husband when he came in from the saw mill . |
| 10 | So every day for two months a group of cleaners managed by contracts manager Pat Kemp , went in to clean completely as and when the premises became available . |
| 11 | Early in the afternoon he heard his voice and went in to put his question . |
| 12 | We obeyed and went in to sit in a sombre half-circle round the fire . |
| 13 | Very few erm Continental countries would consider entrusting the administration of justice erm to erm people who took an afternoon or a day off work every week or so and went in to sit on the Bench . |
| 14 | I rambled aimlessly for about an hour , in and out of dirty narrow streets , their only saving grace being their brevity , in and out of a variety of shops , bought some oranges from the market stalls , the most interesting feature of the wretched place , then went in to see an ‘ explicit sex ’ film and was presented with a badly mutilated and heavily censored version of some third-rate continental film which I left within the first fifteen minutes . |
| 15 | We went in to see Jennie before we left . |
| 16 | The investigator said he would try his luck with the scenery-watchers in the dome-car , with apparently the same result , and from there he presumably went in to see the Lorrimores , who apart from Xanthe were still in seclusion . |
| 17 | He shrugged , and went in to see Hester . |
| 18 | For the first time I met Jeremy 's father , who had just arrived from America , and together we went in to see the body . |
| 19 | ‘ But I just used to hide my glue bag in the toilet before I went in to see my social worker . ’ |
| 20 | Disregarding the proprieties Harry went in to see her . |
| 21 | The new patient did n't need anything , so she went in to see Donna . |
| 22 | Well in the end she took a stack and went in to see Miss and Miss tried to change the subject , subj |
| 23 | when we down to London last week , we went in to see a friend of ours , she works in the sandwich bar |
| 24 | so Malcolm just went in to see if there 'd be any tickets for the afternoon performance on the off-chance and they were putting on an extra matinee performance so lo and behold those two went to see Phantom of the Opera . |
| 25 | I went in to see the cats and then I swept up all the mess |
| 26 | Right , so when he went in to see somebody he had |
| 27 | The doors of the bar opened behind them and they went in to order hot chocolate from the rather older part-time student who had learned the advisability of doing something to earn a little money and had taken several jobs as a waitress . |
| 28 | There was , I was gon na say there was a hell of a fight going on here the morning we come over yours between Christopher and Andrew , and I went in to sort out just in time to hear Christopher say well I 'm having all GrandPat 's money when he 's dead not you . |
| 29 | what about that erm , what about that other place that er timber place on the way to Kilkern erm we went there , you , oh you went in to ask about some walnut , do you remember when er |
| 30 | I think if she went in to live in the back woods , you know , way beyond |