Example sentences of "they went [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went straight into the kitchen , and automatically made them both a cup of coffee , a mutual family ritual when one of them went out to a meeting . |
| 2 | Now Sid and Ethel demonstrated a samba , doing scissor-cutting steps backwards and forwards , then with hands on hips somehow entwined , and heads looking behind them , they went round in a circle . |
| 3 | They went up in a paternoster lift which cranked regularly past its otherwise vacant portals . |
| 4 | The lights were obviously controlled from some master switch for they went on without a sound . |
| 5 | They went out through a door that was marked ‘ Hours of Opening : 08.00 to 23.59 ’ . |
| 6 | They went out through a gate in the walled garden , and encountered Hector almost at once . |
| 7 | When they went out to a restaurant together , he would always complain — very loudly so that the proprietor would know who he was and so there would be people around about whom he could fuss were pestering him for his autograph . |
| 8 | They went out in a blaze of glory . |
| 9 | He collided with the Guardsmen , and they went down in a tangle . |
| 10 | The cloth for their suits was cord ( corduroy ) , as I 've told you ; but sometimes they went in for a suit of heavy tweed — staple tweed it was called ; and at that time they made it as hard as a board . |