Example sentences of "[pers pn] went [adv prt] [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 | I went out with a new boy for a while and we fell in love . |
| 3 | This week , I went out in a new , ankle-length skirt for the first time . |
| 4 | Surkov , in a Yale T-shirt , was sitting alone at a table when I went down to a late breakfast . |
| 5 | I went back at a slow run , glowing with energy and feeling even better than I had at the start of the Run . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I went along as a 10-year-old and watched the shows four times a day . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But you went on to a nameless belt of chairs and it took you it was Highways and Horizons they called it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So what happens if you have , just supposing you went down to a crazy way o of means testing . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ It is , actually , ’ she went on in a normal voice . |
| 14 | ‘ You can tell your father , ’ she went on in a low voice , ‘ there 's plenty in the valley willing to help . |
| 15 | ‘ I did mean what I said last night , ’ she went on in a strangled whisper . |
| 16 | She went off on a determined search for Penry , but he was still nowhere to be seen . |
| 17 | We went off to a little restaurant she knew near Leicester Square . |
| 18 | I , I said I was sp you were speaking to an expert er so we went off at a blind tangent . |
| 19 | We went along to a ballooning club and pestered people to let us have a free flight . |
| 20 | If I did manage to get the rubber disc in now , but then he arrived an hour or two late , and then we went out for a romantic candle-lit dinner , and then we chatted for a while … the spermicide would have decided to cease hostilities at just about the time I needed it to be at its most fierce . |
| 21 | They went on over a long period and affected many children who had been entrusted to the defendants for care and help . |
| 22 | suffered their fifth defeat in a row when they went down to a narrow 17–15 defeat in the Shield at home to Knottingley . |
| 23 | suffered their fifth defeat in a row when they went down to a narrow 17–15 defeat in the Shield at home to Knottingley . |
| 24 | ‘ I tried the bell at the front , ’ Pete said as they went in through a whitewashed scullery . |
| 25 | He went over to a flowerbed and felt around in the mud . |
| 26 | In the final between Bridgend and Gloucester , after a flash of brilliance from Glen Webbe towards the end when he went over for a magnificent try and another brilliant individual effort by him when he sent over Mark Jones , Bridgend clinched a 22–12 victory . |
| 27 | Then he went on to a merciless performance as an inarticulate Garda , who had been called to the school to deliver the annual lecture on road safety . |
| 28 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
| 29 | He went on in a similar vein . |
| 30 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ he went on in a low voice , ‘ I lie awake at night thinking of what would happen to this place if you should die without issue . ’ |