Example sentences of "she went [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In November 1945 , she went to the B–17 graveyard in Arizona , where the breakers succeeded in doing what the Nazi flak and fighters had failed to do — destroy Mary Alice . |
| 2 | And she went to the front door and knocked , and a little bent-up man appeared … ’ |
| 3 | Returning to the kitchen she heard the sound of a horse and cart in Celtic Crescent and she went to the front door to look out . |
| 4 | She went to the Labour Bureau and the clerk there told her that she would be passed fit for clerical work and sent her to the Ministry of Defence Office . |
| 5 | She 's bright — she was at Bristol University before she went to the secretarial college . |
| 6 | She went to the stained pavement , where the blood pools were washed by the rain spots . |
| 7 | After studying at Manchester School of Art from 1898 to 1903 , she went to the Royal College of Art , before taking a diploma at the Accademia in Venice . |
| 8 | She went to the full-length mirror beside her dressing-table , pulling off the headband she had worn in the bath and releasing the glossy brown hair that tumbled almost to her shoulders . |
| 9 | She went to the French General 's stirrup and held the pathetic bouquet up to the grim-faced man . |
| 10 | Jack was busy , dealing with a nasty fracture , so she went to the nursing station and picked up the phone . |
| 11 | After a while , when the sickness had passed , she went to the wash-hand basin to wash and freshen-up , then returned to her seat at the dinner table . |
| 12 | After cooking her watery stew one night and seeing her younger daughter into bed she went to the public library and looked up ‘ Death ’ in a concordance . |
| 13 | She went to the back door and opened it . |
| 14 | She went to the local public baths every day before work and swam twenty lengths . |
| 15 | She went to the local public baths every day before work and swam twenty lengths . |
| 16 | She went to the dead man and laid her cheek against his ; it was already cold . |
| 17 | When she had finished hanging out the washing , before she went for the weekly shop at SavaCentre , Sara applied her lipstick , and around her throat she squirted the toilet water which she had had for three years and never before used . |
| 18 | She went into the unlighted room , the candle bursting on the ridges of furniture . |
| 19 | She went into the tiny pantry and busied herself , preparing the ingredients she had had brought from the kitchen only an hour before . |
| 20 | She went into the tiny bedroom , stripped off her tights and slipped into a loose T-shirt and boxer shorts . |
| 21 | She went into the empty staff-room and helping herself to a cup of coffee , she sank wearily into a chair . |
| 22 | Let it be so , she decided , as she went into the empty dining room . |
| 23 | She went into the shadowy house , where a boy of about four was holding his arm . |
| 24 | She went into the adjoining bathroom and soaked in warm , scented water . |
| 25 | They should not feel aggrieved at her asking for money ; when she went into the cold hall she felt that it would not give her back much , if anything . |
| 26 | She went over the final quarrel with her father again and again , and left her present loves to fend for themselves . |
| 27 | But someone needed her , and as she broke into a run , she went over the differential diagnosis of a faint in her mind . |
| 28 | to keep her company in the house and she went over the other night she said because when the kids are in bed , she 's on her own |
| 29 | She went over the whole experience of first meeting her husband , their courtship and marriage and life together . |
| 30 | Instead of following Thérèse down the road that led to the centre of the village , out again , and so , eventually , to the Martin farm , she went in the other direction . |