Example sentences of "went into " in BNC.

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1 She is looking for critical views against which to pitch her own ; it seems that she may have chosen the wrong sort of topic , since on a holiday in Italy she had been stunned by the newly renovated Michelangelo ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in Rome , and although there were plenty of books about it , many of them went into extravagant detail .
2 And singing is part of that too — I did n't sing before I went into training even though I am musical and play both the piano and the flute .
3 You both went into the theatre together from the same drama school ?
4 We went into weekly rep in Aberdeen .
5 The industry went into rapid reverse .
6 And so saying he went into the tiny village police station with its distinctive blue lamp and the lettering chiselled into the stone above the doorway which said ‘ King 's Magnum Parva Police Station ’ .
7 Marion Conroy was on stage until the final curtain calls and came up the stairs with the rest of the cast afterwards , observing as she did that Pepper went into his No. 2 and shut the door but that Cissy opened it and went in after him , the wide-eyed babyish stare that was the caricaturists ' joy quite absent .
8 This attitude both belittles the quality of the author 's work and also underestimates the wide reading and research which went into the creation of her most famous character .
9 ‘ What would you know ? ’ demanded Thomas , the under-footman , jealous that it had been she who had found the body when she went into the bedroom with the morning tray of tea and biscuits .
10 The first course was on the table when we went into the dining-room .
11 This force is an amalgam of nine smaller units ( Figure 2 ) , some of which went into the melting pot in 1969 .
12 Her heart went into a cartoon clinch : Nothing Else Matters !
13 The day before the date , Jay went into Lucy 's office and saw her crying , silky red head on the desk , fists clenched .
14 Jay followed Lucy as she put her coat on and went into the street .
15 Let it be so , she decided , as she went into the empty dining room .
16 ‘ I went into the thickets
17 They sat on arguing for three hours while Ella went into the other end of the house and sang quietly to the baby and wee Alex came home filthy from playing and sat drowsily beside the fire , chewing at the bones of the fowl .
18 They had worked together for several years and the elder of them readily agreed to help supply the other 's son if he went into hiding in the woods above Eastertyre .
19 Sucking his torn finger-end , he went into the cell next his own and sat on the floor , his back against the wall , looking at the scraps of scratched lettering on the distemper opposite him .
20 Charles E. Wilson , the newly appointed Secretary of Defence , graduated as an engineer but soon realised there were better things in life and he took a course in commerce and went into business and is now engaged in the most complicated of businesses — that of running a country .
21 Professor Dudek had envisaged the series coming out in paper covers ( the format that was just becoming the way to the mass market ) ; Leonard ensured that it went into hard ; Dudek had not meant the books to be prestigious in format but vehicles of introduction ; Leonard saw to it that his book could stand alongside the best that there were from both sides of the Atlantic .
22 She went into the shop .
23 She went into the living room where she settled down at the dining table to mark compositions .
24 He rubbed his eyes , rose slowly and went into the bedroom .
25 ‘ I 'm going to change , ’ and went into the bedroom ; so he did n't find out what she was wearing underneath .
26 Amanda went into the kitchen and returned with two packets of crisps .
27 She switched off the CD player , went into the bedroom , checked that her black dress , red jacket and red shoes were spotless for the morning : tucked a red and gold scarf and a couple of gilt bracelets into her bag to wear in the evening and went to bed .
28 She bought six first-class stamps , took a pound coin from her purse and went into the automatic photo booth .
29 Geraldine hung up and went into her living room .
30 She went into the kitchen , scrambled three eggs and returned to the living room to eat them .
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