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Example sentences of "[pron] went [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	So I went up into a tree and I stayed there all night .
2	I went up for a weekend .
3	I got an elbow in the face as I went up for a header and I remember putting my head down and running straight into Bull 's back .
4	‘ I went on to a party in Cambridge after I 'd been catching swifts , and in the middle of the party a horrible large green thing , a flightless parasitic fly , found on swifts , crawled crabwise out of my hair on to my dinner jacket — it was a dinner jacket sort of party .
5	At a show in a dilapidated disco in Barrow-in-Furness , I went on after a community pantomime , in which the wicked witch — a local Labour councillor — was booed off by trade unionists involved in industrial action .
6	On the other hand , after a glance at ‘ Luck of the Legion ’ , I went about for a week with a white handkerchief tucked into the back of my cap , ordering the dog to about-face or wooing it with words of French culled from the strip ( ‘ Oo-ee , mon pet it ’ ) .
7	In the evening I went out to a club , stayed up all night , was late for work the next morning , got sacked and ever since then the rest of the staff have been kind enough to pretend that I 'm still one of them .
8	I went out for a drink just after seven — at the Sir Richard Steele on Haverstock Hill .
9	I went out for a walk , then picked blackberries on Periton Hill , in that far clump at the edge of the downs .
10	I went out for a walk because I could n't stand being indoors .
11	I went out for a walk yesterday .
12	I went out of a daytime working , chequebooks and all that kind of thing , but it gets boring after a while .
13	I went out on a board George Downing had built for me .
14	I had been wept on by so many boyfriends that , had Home Sister known , she would have warned me of the dangers of pneumonia every time I went out on a date .
15	I went out like a light .
16	Something hit me on the back of the head , here , and I went out like a light .
17	Having agreed that this was a good idea , David and I went down to a pub called The Three Tuns , which is in Beckenham High Street .
18	Well I went down to a rental firm , you know
19	After I did the course for two weeks I went down to a place in Ashford and I was in Ashford for twelve weeks , came back to Chelmsford , did another two weeks and then I was released as what 's known as probationer constable , a probationer constable .
20	Mm , I thought I 'd get it , I really did think I 'd get it and I went down with a bump when I did n't
21	When I went into Panama I needed a visa , I went in without a visa .
22	I I certainly did n't go in in in in with a rank on my shoulder , I went in as a recruit .
23	‘ I had a cartilage operation three and a half years ago , and I went in for a tackle just before Christmas and damaged it again .
24	I went in for a tackle with Brian Mooney and I came off worse because I broke my right leg .
25	While I 'm digging that garden she used to go out roll in the trench what I 'd dug and soon as I went in for a drink she was in there before me !
26	I mean , I ended up staying a month at some bloke 's house after I went in for a pack of strings !
27	So I went in for a scholarship with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts .
28	Eventually the dinner broke up and Claud , Roger Hollis and I went off for a pub-crawl which after sundry indecorous adventures ended up at the Hypocrites where another blind was going on .
29	Doris cuddled me on the way to the door but she must have let go for an instant ( perhaps I goosed her too eagerly ) because I went off on a run that would have taken me all the way downtown — further , to the Village , to Martina Twain — if the dessert trolley had n't been there to check my sprint .
30	That being an impossible expectation , I went off on a tack and remarked that he 'd been lucky , as a politician , that he was also a natural entertainer .