Example sentences of "[conj] i went [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | My English travelling companion was game to try the dulse seaweed , which is a speciality in Ballycastle , so I went into a little shop on the seafront . |
2 | It got more painful — so I went to a different doctor , who said it was an infected sebaceous cyst and gave me stronger antibiotics . |
3 | But anyway , talking about engineering as a whole , quite obviously it 's interesting to go back a bit because I 'm always interested in the way the institutions actually started because er there 's a lovely story about er , the Stephenson brothers and tho , ju , having just come down from Scarborough on a mini-holiday we stopped at York and I went over a great big museum there , and quite obviously seeing the marvellous locomotives you realise that George Stevenson had er , a lot to do with that . |
4 | He explained everything to me and I went across a big courtyard , through a door into a large hall , then up some stairs and along a landing turning left towards an outside terrace down to the lawns at the rear of the Palace . |
5 | The chimney is blocked so I could n't light a fire to heat anything up and I went without a hot drink for those four days . |
6 | My father did well in his business and I went to a good school . |
7 | But I always spoke English with Mum , and I went to an English school in Athens . |
8 | My mother volunteered to look after the luggage while my father and I went for a short walk . |
9 | Cos I tell you what I have got cos I went to an Indian reservation and I 've got a small carving which an Indian did for |
10 | But I went to a private school after that , I went to one run by a Mr , Mr E M . |
11 | She had intended to say , ‘ Because I went through a promiscuous period after I left Sam , and it was a hateful , shameful , humiliating time , and I 'll never let it happen again . ’ |
12 | My wife got scared as I went from a nice healthy rosy red colour to sheet white in a few seconds : - ( . |