Example sentences of "went [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his sexual initiation by a barmaid in an outback pub , while his father was drinking downstairs ( at an age which would seem to be about twelve and a half — but Greg felt the incident had been brought forward significantly , from a feeling that the narrative pace of the opening pages was already flagging ) , Gerald Seymour-Strachey went on to a variety of girls ( occasionally called ‘ girlies ’ ) and later women . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | And he thrust her briskly into a small , book-lined room , and himself went on along a passage to the hall and the telephone , leaving the door open between them . |
| 4 | Secret talks with the government , which went on over a period of more than a year , were also broken off . |
| 5 | Later that month Alistair went along to a reading at the Screenplay Society in Earl 's Court . |
| 6 | And when she went down for a cup of tea , her mother mentioned casually that Parr had gone to Belfast , not to England as expected , although she did not know why . |
| 7 | In the end , we went down to a chum in the country . ’ |
| 8 | As it went down to a flutter of clapping , John added : ‘ They wanted to study the effects . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And then Ratagan went down with a grypesh at his throat , and Riven forgot about hesitating . |
| 11 | I hit the gunman right between the windows of his soul and he went down with a lot of sparks and technoflash that I for one was n't expecting . |
| 12 | Went down with a bang over there . ’ |
| 13 | Karin went down with a group of 20 divers expecting to come across the usual remnants from ships like portholes and anchors . |
| 14 | An RAF Hercules transport plane is trying to rescue thirty Russian sailors whose ship went down in a gale in the middle of the South Atlantic . |
| 15 | An RAF Hercules transport plane is trying to rescue thirty Russian sailors whose ship went down in a gale in the middle of the South Atlantic . |
| 16 | The penalty seemed harsh as Jones went down in a collision with John Lukic as they both raced for a 50-50 ball . |
| 17 | But even when he was surrounded he continued to lay about him with his sword , and then with an axe when his sword broke , until he went down from a blow to the head . |
| 18 | But she went down like a sack of spuds and cracked her head open . |
| 19 | I took the hot , spicy drink and it went down like a stream of molten lava . |
| 20 | The cloth for their suits was cord ( corduroy ) , as I 've told you ; but sometimes they went in for a suit of heavy tweed — staple tweed it was called ; and at that time they made it as hard as a board . |
| 21 | The wind caught it and it bounced awkwardly for the St Aloysius defence and Roy Montgomery went in for a try under the posts which was converted by Ross Houghton . |
| 22 | I went in for a tackle with Brian Mooney and I came off worse because I broke my right leg . |
| 23 | Schools went in for a lot of physical education , ‘ drill ’ , which involved jumping about in a drafty hall with your skirt tucked into your knickers if you were female . |
| 24 | Fibres also went in for a spot of acquisition , buying into the British texturizing industry to give downstream processing capability . |
| 25 | I mean , I ended up staying a month at some bloke 's house after I went in for a pack of strings ! |
| 26 | So I went in for a scholarship with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts . |
| 27 | She began plunging the pole down into the pot once more but , feeling suddenly rebellious , she stopped work and went outside for a breath of fresh air . |
| 28 | Dear Mr. Lum — who had been admitted to the Weavers ' Company himself in 1787 — had agreed to recommend his friend William Charles Titford , and the deal went through as a freedom by redemption — that is , by virtue of payment — rather than by apprenticeship or patrimony . |
| 29 | Lissouba headed the poll and went through to a second round run-off on Aug. 16 against the second-placed Bernard Kolelas of the Congolese Movement for Democracy and Integral Development ( MCDDI ) . |
| 30 | He started with a series of gulping sobs , went through to a noise like a drain emptying out and finished up with a sort of throaty sob . |