Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] went [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides cleaning up the city 's litter , he was determined to cure its chronic pollution problem , and duly went to war on public and private traffic , proposing a total ban from some areas . |
| 2 | From 1870 to 1880 he was at the office of the architect Thomas Henry Wyatt [ q.v. ] , and later went into partnership with the latter 's son Matthew . |
| 3 | Rafferty had the opposite experience to Couples on the fifth , kicking off a bank into the lake , and also went in water on the long 16th . |
| 4 | She lived out of doors and often went to work in the fields with the contadini . |
| 5 | She continued to visit her former foster parents and even went on holiday to Spain with them . |
| 6 | When he spent the Whitsun weekend with John Hayward in Cambridge , he looked " very haggard and washed out and dispirited " and simply went to sleep on Hayward 's bed for two afternoons . |
| 7 | He was ordained deacon in 1863 and priest in 1864 , served for two years as his father 's curate in Langley Burrell , Wiltshire , and then went as curate to Clyro , Radnorshire . |
| 8 | She had originally run it with first husband Stephen and then went to work at the Midland pub opposite Central station . |
| 9 | She had originally run it with first husband Stephen and then went to work at the Midland pub opposite Central station . |
| 10 | I sang and danced in town , and then went to bed in Edinburgh Castle . |
| 11 | It used every means at its disposal : it argued and pressured the Versailles politicians ; it cheated in the plebiscites ; it engineered uprisings in Silesia and Wielkopolska ; it skirmished and then went to war with the Red Army for territory in the east . |
| 12 | I tried running but gave up after two paces , and then went from meditation to mental arithmetic , calculating the length of each step by counting them for each revolution of the wheel . |
| 13 | After his release in the mid-1970s he became a successful businessman and hotelier but later went into exile in Rome , where he helped finance the USC , returning to Somalia in late 1990 . |