Example sentences of "when [pers pn] went [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to report , though , that it was here my own trust in the French as the most obdurately literate of all nations was dented when I went into a bookshop and asked if they had a copy of the Song of Roland . |
| 2 | I discovered this painfully myself when I went as a visitor to a beautifully equipped laboratory to work on learning in rhesus monkeys . |
| 3 | I learned that when I went to a conference at Sheffield . |
| 4 | But er I did go with Con when I went for a perm she said oh would you like to , would you like to go and see Valerie |
| 5 | And there was prejudice once when I went for a job . |
| 6 | Well apparently that was n't the end of the garden you see cos that came across like this and when you went through a gap in the hedge about another twenty yards further on in the far distance it seemed there was the hut . |
| 7 | This is the story about Miranda Mouse , and what happened when she went for a walk in Puddle Lane . |
| 8 | And again there was the quiver of amusement , because had Dierdriu ever been discreet when she went to a lover 's bed ? |
| 9 | A Nairobi lawyer , Martha Njoka , claimed that she was assaulted by a special branch superintendent when she went to a police station to trace Imanyara . |
| 10 | Later she received a good luck token when she went on a walkabout in Glasgow 's George Square . |
| 11 | In the Post Office while I was trying to phone Prague , Irena was getting free phone calls in exchange for correcting a German text for the manager , and when we went to a bookshop she had a friend who sold her books at half price . |
| 12 | And then when we went for a drink he used to say are you not buying me a drink ? |
| 13 | But when we went for a fitting , the garments had been made with buttons just sewn onto tacky fake buttonholes . |
| 14 | There were a lot of crows when we went for a walk before flying round . |
| 15 | On one occasion , they locked her in the car when they went to a call and wound up the window to prevent her overhearing . |
| 16 | TV soap star Sue Nicholls has put off her wedding to actor Mark Eden — because there was a queue when they went to a London register office . |
| 17 | Shortly afterwards , his former employer Mr. Groves desired a tutor for his children when he went on a missionary tour of the Middle East , and selected Kitto for the position . |
| 18 | James finally got Sir Clifford out of his system when he went on a yachting holiday in the Mediterranean with three friends . |
| 19 | Shake yourself by the hand ! ’ my grandfather used to say to him when he went on a visit . |
| 20 | He witnessed Vaughan 's resentment of Johnny 's Circus , also the way in which Minton , like a piece of Sellotape , automatically picked up people when he went into a pub . |
| 21 | There was one occasion when he went into a café and asked for tea and then while he waited he suddenly saw a solution to a theological argument which he had with Leslie Owen the warden , and his waving of hands was so convulsive that the café refused to serve him with the tea . |