Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] went [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He needed some toothpaste so he went into the chemists . |
| 2 | ‘ What , so you 'd be sick as a parrot if we went over the moon together ? ’ |
| 3 | There was all this unstated sexual intention and we went to the toilets at Finchley Road tube station and I did n't know what was going to happen . |
| 4 | All government money and when my father was , after the , after the war he had a little old dredger , little grab dredger and they went along the quay dredging it all up and er , course they took so much out the hole , scrubbed it , all good coal again . |
| 5 | It still ran away from him but he grabbed it again at the second attempt before it went over the line and the chance had gone . |
| 6 | The curtains were still pulled and he placed one of the packages of groceries on the table , holding the other to his side as he went across the room and whipped back the heavy green curtains . |
| 7 | He over-valued the pound when we went into the ERM and , coupled with his insistence of achieving zero inflation , that is destroying industry , jobs , homes , families and any chance of rebuilding Britain for a better future . |
| 8 | And this excitement , and the feeling of being involved in a half-guessed-at mystery , became her private obsession as she went about the house , visited the shops and looked after the children . |
| 9 | A passer-by told officers he saw the 16-year-old bundled into a car as she went to the shops . |
| 10 | Ayling 's final words about MacQuillan echoed in Rain 's mind as they went to the stables , especially the tone of them . |
| 11 | She had told neighbours : ‘ We were all watching television in a back bedroom when I went to the toilet . |
| 12 | She was not looking in their direction , her head was turned to say something to whomever she was with , her short hair blown straight up by the wind as they went into the little newsagent 's , leaving McLeish a clear run to get Catherine back to the Yard . |
| 13 | Perceiving the Army as a protective cover for Loyalism , Catholics attacked the march as it went past the Cloned and Ballymurphy areas . |
| 14 | When her cloak was removed in the Rectory hall and she went into the drawing-room which had been lavishly and clumsily decorated by the children on precisely the principle Alexandra had used in dressing , they crowded round her with gasps of delight and wonder . |
| 15 | There was a small knee-hole desk and he went through the drawers but found nothing more than discarded pens , broken pencils , old catalogues , a quantity of scrap paper , and an assortment of pins and clips . |
| 16 | She said : ‘ I brushed past a girl as I went to the toilet and she yelled I 'd done it deliberately . |
| 17 | Barry 's Mum got up from the desk as they went into the waiting-room , and put her coat on . |
| 18 | Luke was leaning against the bar as she went down the stairs . |
| 19 | ‘ I hardly knew whether I would find you still here , ’ Benedict had said , catching her on the gallery as she went towards the attic stairs , burdened with a small wooden box containing the contents of Lady Merchiston 's medicine cupboard , Hector at her heels . |
| 20 | An electrician made the grim discovery when he went into the loft at Milton Keynes , Bucks . |
| 21 | Oh of course cos we went on the train did n't we |
| 22 | Well , let me tell you , you 'll know which one it is in a second — I went back , obviously years later , and I was having my beer and I finally had to go to the loo and I went into the ladies ' room and there was a big sign saying ‘ Elizabeth Taylor sat here ’ . |
| 23 | The second , popularly believed to be more likely to succeed , challenges the constitutionality of the settlement on the basis that it went beyond the powers of the 1985 Act . |
| 24 | Her father , a sailor from Shetland , had been lost at sea , and her mother had to bring her two young children up in desperate poverty until they went to the orphanage . |
| 25 | I was lucky because we heard that the Government was encouraging women 's employment , so my husband and I went to the Prime Minister 's residence with an application . |
| 26 | ‘ Once the Verey pistol ‘ ad been fired Lieutenant Makepeace led the charge and I went over the top after ‘ im followed by the rest of my section . |
| 27 | The robot and I went into the computer room but Hee-Haw stayed outside . |
| 28 | Nick clung to Carrie 's sleeve as they went through the door into a long , dark room with pointed windows . |
| 29 | ‘ What would you know ? ’ demanded Thomas , the under-footman , jealous that it had been she who had found the body when she went into the bedroom with the morning tray of tea and biscuits . |
| 30 | Jean-Marie Chantreux , 28 , smirked as he told a Normandy court that he went to the shipping company to steal . |