Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] went [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | My father did well in his business and I went to a good school . |
| 5 | My mother volunteered to look after the luggage while my father and I went for a short walk . |
| 6 | The monster that said ‘ Hee-haw ! ’ carried me on its back and we went to a little river . |
| 7 | Later-several whiskies later — Hamilton did emerge , and they went into a private office to talk . |
| 8 | ‘ A year ago father went to Brittany ; he 'd been saving up for years and he went on a nine-day excursion . |
| 9 | right , Archie , he 's erm , on his own , own he 's er , think his wife died years ago , he saved and saved and he went on a big cruise , do you know what I mean ? |
| 10 | He finally took the advice of doctors a month later , and he went on a two-week holiday to Jamaica . |
| 11 | His hair curled around his face , and he went to a small basin and swilled water from the tap , rubbing his face and head briskly with a towel . |
| 12 | At two o'clock in the morning the doctor gave him a sedative and he went into a deep sleep , but when he awoke he did not speak to anyone , and the police found great difficulty in questioning him too . |
| 13 | But this was this big case was on you know , and it went on A big lawsuit it went on for quite a while . |
| 14 | He blasted it and it went in a straight line from his foot to the top right hand corner . |
| 15 | But I went to a private school after that , I went to one run by a Mr , Mr E M . |
| 16 | But we went for a long walk and Ally started talking about his work in a way I had n't heard before . |
| 17 | It was hard to know where to start but we went for a private sale and a Mazda 323 on the basis that Dave Baker ( our friend in Christchurch ) has a Mazda 323 and what 's good for Dave is good for us ! |