Example sentences of "[pers pn] went [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're much too young to be thinking about boys , when I was your age I went around in a big friendly group , plenty of time for all that later on . |
| 2 | Recently I went outside on a clear night , and started to count the stars I could see inside the Square ; using × 7 . |
| 3 | I was lucky I went straight into a trusty 's job , and I could work at weekends as well , and I earned good money : £2.63 a week . |
| 4 | I went out with a new boy for a while and we fell in love . |
| 5 | Editor , — Recently , as a trainee general practitioner , I went out on an urgent call at lunchtime on a weekday . |
| 6 | This week , I went out in a new , ankle-length skirt for the first time . |
| 7 | Surkov , in a Yale T-shirt , was sitting alone at a table when I went down to a late breakfast . |
| 8 | The do that in wonderful community centre , I went there to a good function the other evening , very good fish and chips and as well . |
| 9 | And I went there for a little bit , and then we moved on , moved off from there , do you see ? |
| 10 | Doing Ophelia on stage before taking up the BBC contract meant that I went there with a little track record — I 'd been blooded , if you like , and it made the whole thing a lot better . |
| 11 | Oh I w I went there as a young girl . |
| 12 | I went back at a slow run , glowing with energy and feeling even better than I had at the start of the Run . |
| 13 | Now if the Labour group had moved a widening of erm the sort of provision in our elderly persons homes , I could have understood that , because we did n't have real figures , we could not get hold of real figures , every time I went back to a local party meeting , to the Labour group , to any other member they said , do you realise this home has this number of vacancies and your report says that number . |
| 14 | ‘ I went along as a 10-year-old and watched the shows four times a day . |
| 15 | When I was living in my former role I went along to a lesbian meeting , thinking that might be what I was , but what I wanted was a relationship with a woman as a man . |
| 16 | But you went on to a nameless belt of chairs and it took you it was Highways and Horizons they called it . |
| 17 | And when you wanted to buy something like a three piece suite , you went to somewhere like Bentalls and they took you into a little room , soon as you said to the man well I want to buy this on hire purchase and you went in to a little room and the man sat down and you filled in a long form . |
| 18 | So what happens if you have , just supposing you went down to a crazy way o of means testing . |
| 19 | Janet Walters , an Oxford history graduate who had previously served as a full-time tutor in Northamptonshire in 1943–45 , arrived in August 1952 but resigned two years later : she went on to a successful career in adult education , eventually retiring as principal of Hillcroft College , Surbiton , in 1982 . |
| 20 | ‘ It is , actually , ’ she went on in a normal voice . |
| 21 | ‘ You can tell your father , ’ she went on in a low voice , ‘ there 's plenty in the valley willing to help . |
| 22 | ‘ I did mean what I said last night , ’ she went on in a strangled whisper . |
| 23 | ‘ So much , Steve , ’ she went on in an agonised whisper . |
| 24 | Three powerful strokes brought her to the rail where she went straight into an underwater turn and headed down the pool . |
| 25 | Yeah I was gon na say , she went away as a little kid |
| 26 | She went off on a determined search for Penry , but he was still nowhere to be seen . |
| 27 | We went off to a little restaurant she knew near Leicester Square . |
| 28 | I , I said I was sp you were speaking to an expert er so we went off at a blind tangent . |
| 29 | We went in with an open mind , but I have to be honest , the presentation was so abysmal , that there was no way that we could in fact continue with them , and we have the same problem with the cleaning contract . |
| 30 | We went down to an awful Wimpy Bar opposite Chagueramas — which later became The Roxy . |