Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] went [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | The Sierra had parked about a third of the way down the street , so I went on past the junction and ran Armstrong up on to the pavement . |
2 | There was no answer to my knock so I went round to the side door facing the canal . |
3 | There was only a bit of spare paper left and some of it had got streaks of cheese-grease on , so I went over to the newsagent 's stall and bought an exercise book for 35p . |
4 | ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself . |
5 | ’ So I went down to the canal . |
6 | It seemed as good a time as any to go , so I went down to the squat in the King 's Road where I was living and picked up my passport . |
7 | It went on and on until I was nearly frantic , so I went out for the evening several times in one week to release the tension . |
8 | ‘ Killer blah , ’ he said in a strange tone of voice that I took to be a warning so I went back under the chair . |
9 | By early evening , I was just too bored to stick the place any longer so I went back to the hotel . |
10 | Their life was already hard enough , so I went back to the wild fruit in the woods . |
11 | They were still uncomfortable , so I went back into the optician . |
12 | It was then that I decided to help myself , so I went along to the local college and enrolled in what appeared to me to be ‘ a way to relax ’ — the Alexander Technique . |
13 | There was no food in the chalet , so she went up to the house . |
14 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
15 | She tried reading him Wordsworth and Tennyson and Browning but he would sigh and interrupt her when she did , so she went back to the lighter Kipling poems and he would lie and grin happily to himself and make her read his favourite passages over and over again . |
16 | in the afternoon so we went out in the morning to an antique fair |
17 | That 's right , , it 's a , it 's a , so my mother and I said we 're going back to that hotel , you know , were very , very kind of luxury type , so we went back to the hotel and my brother and I went into the room where we had a television view on the sea , very beautiful . |
18 | Fear slowed his thoughts , and grudgingly granted him one consolation : at this speed they must come out at the bottom a damn sight faster than they went through at the top . |
19 | She wanted to check on some of her cultures before they left the building , so they went up to the third floor and along a corridor lined with rooms numbered for experimentation and behavioural study . |
20 | ‘ So they went up to the village pub and had a few drinks . |
21 | There was nothing worth watching on television , so he went back into the kitchen . |
22 | Charles knew it would be unprofessional to use the pass-door from backstage to the auditorium once the house had started to fill , so he went out of the Stage Door to walk round . |
23 | " If I went over to the hotel now and had supper , that would give you about an hour to find a man and get ready . |
24 | They could n't make emergency payments themselves , but if I went down to the social security office … |
25 | I — think if I had some fresh air today I should feel much better , if I went down to the sea , perhaps . ’ |
26 | If I went out at the age of 68 at Drury Lane to celebrate Rory Bremner 's 50 years in showbusiness and I had n't got my pyjamas on , somebody would shout ‘ Where 's your pyjamas ’ ? ’ |
27 | When I lived at home my mum was cool about whatever I wore ; her only considerations were practical ones , like insisting I wore ten million jumpers if I went out in the cold . |
28 | cos I went over to the cinema , I said my |
29 | and I do n't know how he , you are , and in the end our cousins you , you know convince me that they 'd take sort of control , you know that , if I was worried as well about or dad getting drunk , one thing or another like , you know , and said look we 're going , it 's not as though we 're not going , we 're going and we 'll have him in with us and I let him go in the end cos I went down in the five weeks |
30 | When I came back , cos I went in on the way to the hairdresser 's , to find out about it , and I thought I 'd buy him on the way back , when I went back it was still sitting in the same place with its tail hanging out of the back . |