Example sentences of "she went [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She went to a high-level management meeting wearing a button badge proclaiming her news .
2 ‘ I knew she went to a certain museum but I did n't know where else she went , nor any of her sources , nor what she paid for things .
3 She went to a good school , had enough clothes and pocket money .
4 She went to a small hospital near the house , and a few days later she died .
5 Apparently , she went to a particular pub . ’
6 She went to a special school , and continued to be a voluntary helper at the school where I taught when I left .
7 Once in a while she went to a social club for air pilots who 'd been in hospital .
8 She went to a local letting agency , Landlords of 41 Roman Road , Bethnal Green , London E2 , who found a tenant that day .
9 She went to a different school from us , a convent school , where they had to wear uniform .
10 Perhaps it was because she went to an early Mass to have breakfast ready for them when they returned ; but she did n't like lying in bed in the mornings anyway , and as he had said many times ( admittedly without great enthusiasm ) they could quite easily go to Mass together , and wait a lit–de longer for breakfast .
11 Her cruel circumstances conspired to put her into a remand home at 14 — and from there she went to an adolescent unit , until the age of 17 .
12 During the vacation she went to an inter-varsity fellowship camp with a group of friends .
13 Nicknamed The Shopper by friends , she went on a recent shopping spree for antiques and furniture .
14 From there she went on a punishing schedule of visits to the US , Scandinavia and Japan before returning to Australia , which still remains very much her home .
15 She went with a young lady … to a small office where the documents were laid out for signing .
16 Off she went with a trumpety trump , trump trump
17 Off she went with a trumpety trump , trump , trump , trump
18 When Juliet asked about staff who had been there twenty years ago , she went into a long rigmarole about the different jobs she 'd had , and her family problems , then digressed to the present staff .
19 Well , for instance ; one night Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor who had called Stella II a skinny black bitch right in the middle of her rendition of ‘ Te Amo ’ , and he meant it , right there in the middle of his number — well Madame not only showed her approval of the assault by conspicuously buying Stella drinks every night for the whole of the following week ; as soon as she saw the fight starting she got off her stool , yanked out the plug on the sound system , hitched up that frock , got straight up on the stage while they were still on the floor ( she knew Stella would sort him out ) and she went into an unforgettable aria of abuse against this stranger which culminated in her eschewing all her usual magnificence of phrasing and just standing there shouting fuck off at him , screaming fuck off , if you do n't like it you can fuck off , E , X , I , T , there it is , you came in through it and now you can fuck off out of it , fuck off out of it why do n't you you stupid bastard ( and by now of course someone had dragged Stella off and we were all up on our chairs cheering while the disgraced stranger made his slow and humiliating exit through the parting crowd ) why do n't you just piss off and insult someone who does n't have the balls to answer back because you 've picked the wrong girls here darling , fuck off that 's it , fucking fuck off , fucking fuck off right through my front door and do n't you ever , do n't you ever , do n't you ever step on my fucking frock again .
20 Ms Sultana told the judge that she believed that she would only be truly married when she went through a religious ceremony in a mosque according to her faith .
21 How she had a close friend at school who slept with men from the age of sixteen ; how she first went to France with this friend ; how she hated her first few terms at university ; how she went through a wild phase of drunken parties and desperate affairs ; how she plays the spinet late at night , when no one can hear , and fills the tired darkness with thin plunking antique counterpoint .
22 She went through a bad patch , ’ said Mrs Khalid .
23 He sorted out the beautiful Natasha when she went through an emotional crisis .
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