Example sentences of "i went [prep] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , I went to a couple of record companies and said , ‘ This is me and David Bowie ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ I went to a couple of big pension experts , local advisers , company reps and one of the top four banks to ask what I should do , ’ says Alan . |
| 3 | ‘ I went to a couple of parties with him , that 's all . ’ |
| 4 | Long ago I went to a seminar of archivists who were confident that particular instance papers could be sampled by a variety of statistical methods and if necessary could be anonymized without damage . |
| 5 | ‘ I went to a lot of trouble , ’ Flora said , aggrieved . |
| 6 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 7 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 8 | I went for a couple of terms in 1986 and gained a different perspective on drawing which helped me look more deeply at my subject and see light and shade differently . |
| 9 | I went for a couple of terms in 1986 and gained a different perspective on drawing which helped me look more deeply at my subject and see light and shade differently . |
| 10 | I got a chicken from there other day , I went for a joint of pork I thought oh I 'll have a couple of them joints , fetch a couple back and er I says it 's not Christmas now you know . |
| 11 | I went for a game of golf , I had nine holes . |
| 12 | Not a wink all night did I get , so I went for a breath of air . ’ |
| 13 | Well aware of the undertaking he added ‘ The day before I went for a load of beers to prepare for the ordeal . ’ |
| 14 | I went into a couple of houses — the Johnsons ' , the Peters ' — they were all in there , all dead . |
| 15 | I went through a list of thanks and hoped I had n't left anyone out . |
| 16 | I went through a bunch of necks and felt them , and after feeling about twenty I said to the guy , ‘ This is the one . |
| 17 | Everybody gets phone calls like that , unfortunately occasionally , but it kind of I went through a phase of it happening to me so I therefore had to change my phone number because it was er it was really unpleasant being woken er up by these calls . |
| 18 | ‘ I went through a lot of difficulties , both myself and my family . |
| 19 | That was when I was about fourteen and then I went through a stage of listening to Al Di Meola , people like that , just trying to be a better guitarist . |
| 20 | ‘ I went through a period of seeing myself dead , seeing myself in a coffin and the people at my funeral . |
| 21 | I went through a period of depression erm I 'd been attending the doctor I 'd been told that I was suffering from various illnesses , but nothing helped . |
| 22 | In the early part of 1991 , before all this occurred , I went through a period of time when my find rate dropped drastically and on many occasions I went out and came back home with nothing at all . |
| 23 | I know , I went through a period of a very much milder popularity in the United States in the seventies , nothing like what Neville has enjoyed or has been squashed by , which maybe is lucky for me , but the idea was that erm Rolling Stone , when I was doing it , became very heavily innovative and there was like countless magazines , you know weekly newspapers in different cities , sections of dailies , everything , that started looking like Rolling Stone there for a while . |
| 24 | ‘ I went in a team of 12 and 11 of us got to the summit after an awful lot of tribulations , exploits , excitement and fierce problems . ’ |