Example sentences of "i went [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So I went up into a tree and I stayed there all night .
2 I went up for a weekend .
3 I got an elbow in the face as I went up for a header and I remember putting my head down and running straight into Bull 's back .
4 I went on to a party in Cambridge after I 'd been catching swifts , and in the middle of the party a horrible large green thing , a flightless parasitic fly , found on swifts , crawled crabwise out of my hair on to my dinner jacket — it was a dinner jacket sort of party .
5 At a show in a dilapidated disco in Barrow-in-Furness , I went on after a community pantomime , in which the wicked witch — a local Labour councillor — was booed off by trade unionists involved in industrial action .
6 Dr Tehyi Hsieh took five curtain calls after that lecture , and I went back-stage for an interview afterwards .
7 Nothing much was doing , though , and eventually I went home for a bite to eat and a well-deserved kip .
8 I went home for a week at the end of July , just in time to see the beginning of this new menace , the V1 buzz bombs and I have to say they completely terrified me .
9 On the day , I went home with a couple of mates and watched football on television .
10 On the other hand , after a glance at ‘ Luck of the Legion ’ , I went about for a week with a white handkerchief tucked into the back of my cap , ordering the dog to about-face or wooing it with words of French culled from the strip ( ‘ Oo-ee , mon pet it ’ ) .
11 In the evening I went out to a club , stayed up all night , was late for work the next morning , got sacked and ever since then the rest of the staff have been kind enough to pretend that I 'm still one of them .
12 I went out for a drink just after seven — at the Sir Richard Steele on Haverstock Hill .
13 I went out for a walk , then picked blackberries on Periton Hill , in that far clump at the edge of the downs .
14 I went out for a walk because I could n't stand being indoors .
15 I went out for a walk yesterday .
16 I went out of a daytime working , chequebooks and all that kind of thing , but it gets boring after a while .
17 I went out on a board George Downing had built for me .
18 I had been wept on by so many boyfriends that , had Home Sister known , she would have warned me of the dangers of pneumonia every time I went out on a date .
19 I went out like a light .
20 Something hit me on the back of the head , here , and I went out like a light .
21 Having agreed that this was a good idea , David and I went down to a pub called The Three Tuns , which is in Beckenham High Street .
22 Well I went down to a rental firm , you know
23 After I did the course for two weeks I went down to a place in Ashford and I was in Ashford for twelve weeks , came back to Chelmsford , did another two weeks and then I was released as what 's known as probationer constable , a probationer constable .
24 Mm , I thought I 'd get it , I really did think I 'd get it and I went down with a bump when I did n't
25 This , sadly was my last foray for the month as I went down with an attack of bronchitis soon after this expedition , and form which I have not fully recovered .
26 When I went into Panama I needed a visa , I went in without a visa .
27 I I certainly did n't go in in in in with a rank on my shoulder , I went in as a recruit .
28 ‘ I had a cartilage operation three and a half years ago , and I went in for a tackle just before Christmas and damaged it again .
29 I went in for a tackle with Brian Mooney and I came off worse because I broke my right leg .
30 While I 'm digging that garden she used to go out roll in the trench what I 'd dug and soon as I went in for a drink she was in there before me !
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