Example sentences of "he went [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He went down the airless corridor to his Boss 's office , said hello to the secretary , and walked into the large oak-panelled room which was as big as the lobby of many a sizeable hotel . |
2 | He went to the far kitchen wall and took down a large hanging scales . |
3 | He went to the far side of the classroom . |
4 | In 1895 he went to the new colony of Rhodesia and became a trooper in the Matabeleland regiment of the British South Africa Police . |
5 | Following a spell in Romford he went to the new Walton Heath course in 1904 where he stayed until his death in 1950 , aged 80 . |
6 | The lavish reception afforded to Fidel Castro himself when he went to the Soviet Union the following year is well known , and it was during this visit that he was guaranteed economic concessions , notably a rise in the price paid for Cuban sugar . |
7 | He went to the long table in the centre of the room and looked down at the detailed map spread out across its surface . |
8 | Through the winter of 1940–41 , Lieutenant Courtney trained his Special Boat Section attached to 8 Commando , and with a second-in-command and 15 men he went to the Middle East in February 1941 . |
9 | It was as a mere friend that he went to the private view of Vanessa 's second exhibition and met Rain Morgan . |
10 | His parents are well-off farmers in Somerset , and although he went to the prestigious Ampleforth school , he spent only a year after taking his A levels at agricultural college before becoming a BMW car salesman . |
11 | five hundred , five hundred I could only say he was n't , five o'clock last night he was no so he went to the one doctor , so to the erm what 's gon na happen when they when he , when they can go down the doctors that 's first of all go into this and after ten , twenty four hours doing this kind of thing for forty eight hours up . |
12 | He climbed the three steps to the door , and pushed at it , but it was securely locked , so he went to the nearest window . |
13 | The right hon. Gentleman said that , when he went to the European Parliament in 1987 , he was , to say the least , a reluctant European . |
14 | And then he was supposed to meet her there he he went there and she was n't there and then he went to the Red Lion and she was |
15 | He went to the same school as Steve and Paul , Christopher Wren . |
16 | He made it harder for himself , though much more valuable , by refusing to take short cuts or to mug up the subject from the textbooks : he went to the original sources . |
17 | As soon as Moby was too old for puppy classes , he went to the bigger-dog classes , run by Jenny , to reinforce what he 'd been taught at puppy classes and , most importantly , what he 'd learned at home . |
18 | He went to the National Broadcasting School on a programming foundation course , then worked for P&O liners for a year , presenting radio programmes on cruises . |
19 | He went to the 1928 Olympics , equalling the 100 yards record in the semi-final . |
20 | Mr Steven Hadley , defending , said Williams 's wife , Andrea , 30 , died of cancer and he went to the medical centre in Pinner armed with a knife intending to make his wife 's GP , Dr Patricia Carson , apologise for what he felt was a wrong diagnosis . |
21 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
22 | and the boy would next morning would pass on the outside of the gate offering a reward of five pounds to anyone who would in other words five pounds for Oliver Twist I never in for this in my life said the in the white , white coat as he locked the gate and he went to the next morning . |
23 | After the final curtain he went to the local hospital to have the wound attended to . |
24 | He went to the infamous Son-La forced-labour camp in the jungle on the Thai border where hard-core Communists were able to indoctrinate their fellow convicts . |
25 | He was educated at Batley Grammar School whence he went to the Royal College of Science in London in 1912 . |
26 | Crookes was born in 1832 and , having left school at fifteen , he went to the Royal College of Chemistry . |
27 | Thence he went to the English School at St. Omer before entering the priesthood . |
28 | One time he went to the wrong house just after they 'd moved . |
29 | So here is mystery with a vengeance — we seem to have the attractive idea that Christ died for you and me , he went to the utmost limit for us , he gave everything away , and in some mysterious and tantalizing fashion he took my sin and yours upon himself , but we can not say to whom the price was paid ! |
30 | So he went to the commanding officer at Binbrook ( who was the one who had recommended him in the first place ) , and said — no thanks , I want to get out . |