Example sentences of "we went [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … a Piece of flak must have hit the elevators as we went straight into a dive … ’ |
| 2 | On the rare occasions when we went away for a fortnight — to my grandfather 's dank cottage on the Welsh border , land of the slate grey sky — I could hardly wait to get back and listen to the two-weeks ' worth of messages crammed on my answering machine . |
| 3 | And erm and then we went and got my fruit and veg and then we went in Top Marks and got them so we never got we went through for a video really , never got round to looking for a video did we ? |
| 4 | I pulled up in a gateway , Sam jumped out and we went through into a field ; and as the beagle scampered over the glittering turf I stood in the warm sunshine amid the melting frost and looked back at the dark damp blanket which blotted out the low country but left this jewelled world above it . |
| 5 | After a plaisent meal aboard the Britannia , we went on to a casino where we met Sonja , a gypsy from Montana . |
| 6 | All three of us if we went up for a weekend . |
| 7 | Johnson told Mrs Thrale , ‘ We went up into a dining-room about as large as your blue room , where we had something given us to eat , and tea and coffee . ’ |
| 8 | I sneaked a look behind as we went off in a cloud of dust . |
| 9 | Cos Rita swears she 's been , I mean I was out with her once and we went in for a coffee and we finished , right , and we 're ready to go and I nearly said to her I hate it after you 've finished and Jackie lights up and then I have to sit there while she has a fag |
| 10 | In the end , we went down to a chum in the country . ’ |
| 11 | Lots of friends were at collieries because they were colliers 's sons anyway tt and er so we went down about a job . |
| 12 | At Easter we went there for a holiday , and often have since . |
| 13 | We used to , we , I used to go when my husband was alive we used to go to erm Devon cos I had a brother living in Devon we used to go there , but er unfortunately I lost him when he was only fifty with a coronary , and so erm , in , cos and after that I lost my husband you see so cos we I 've never been away like that before , not , not since , years ago that was , he 's been gone twenty one years this Christmas sixteenth might be so , I 've not been able to so I , I , I go with the erm , I went with the Red Cross this year the year before last I went erm er , Char Charlie took me away we went to er a chalet we stayed at and er a friend of mine we went there for a week had a week there , that poured of rain every day , this year it poured of rain every day |
| 14 | Erm , and I said to him you will help me wo n't you , you wo n't go back to me doing everything , oh lord he said , I 'll , I 'll do my share , so we went back to a routine , whereby I did , washing , ironing , cooking , cleaning , washing the car , mowing the lawn , doing the flower beds , and the doing the , he walked the dog . |
| 15 | ‘ We were staying in a hotel in Maidstone and we went back for a meal , then later , about tennish , we sneaked back to see if there was anything going down . |
| 16 | I spent hours and hours around the flat , back of Kings College , Cambridge and er , you see and we , we went sometimes for a service . |
| 17 | We went out for a day — and a night — then he disappeared in a cloud of smoke to get the ferry at Dover . |
| 18 | Ch king prawn chow mein with the noodles and stuff and he had whip marks all over him but anyway I ate all that and I did n't have a sweet , , did n't have a sweet and I we went out for a while and on the way home |
| 19 | We went out for a lunch that was late even by Madrid standards , then went to a zarzueia . |
| 20 | We went out for a meal , and when he took me home he wanted to come in . |
| 21 | I met a friend at the college library and we went out for a coffee . |
| 22 | The first night we went out to a restaurant along the coast . |
| 23 | Well that , that boat from Evesham that we went out on a couple a years ago it had a fish finder on it . |
| 24 | Oh , no doubt about it , in nineteen seventy two , seventy one seventy two we , we went out on a limb really with that , erm when all other Fire Brigades were using telephone systems , the Suffolk and Ipswich Fire Service went out and did that . |