Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] went [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I only went to school for two years , ’ says Maxima Flores , forty-year-old mother of four . |
| 2 | I just went to bed for a sleep ’ , he revealed . |
| 3 | He cried for put him on the bed , could n't do no college work so I just went to bed and left him . |
| 4 | I just went from person to person and asked if they needed help when a policeman asked me to come and take a look at Johnathan . |
| 5 | Ooh they sometimes used to get books or er they used to get some nice prizes you know , and books and er and that and er and when I was little I once went on stage for a in a skipping competition . |
| 6 | I used to read to the family , and pray with them in the evening , and then I usually went to bed at nine o'clock . |
| 7 | Adèle was hoping Mr Rochester would call her down to meet the guests , but in the end she was so tired with all the excitement that she and I both went to bed early . |
| 8 | Ken and I both went to music lessons and the first interest I ever had in music was the teacher at the school . |
| 9 | After the game I immediately went to hospital , where I was detained overnight . |
| 10 | ‘ I then went on holiday by myself . ’ |
| 11 | I had a phobia about going to the dentist , and the doctor wanted to give me tranquillizers but I did n't want to take them , so I actually went for hypnotherapy which helped . |
| 12 | And then , I never went to sleep but I went sleepy but not did n't actually sleep . |
| 13 | Well er School , but I never went to school not un , at five . |
| 14 | That 's how it was , I never went to school proper . |
| 15 | And I never went to hospital because me cousin was a nurse who 'd er you know got married and so she er proffered to nurse me which she did and er the then er health people in allowed me to stay at home because of this you see and I was at home and er that was in nineteen sixteen . |
| 16 | ‘ I never went to drama school , ’ he would say without a hint of regret , ‘ but learnt my craft the hard way . ’ |
| 17 | ’ You would n't believe the sufferings of scarlet women , Mr. K. George and I never went on holiday together . |
| 18 | ‘ I never went near Boundary Drive , ’ repeated Marcus , a little recovered now . |
| 19 | THE TEXT of the Maastricht Treaty , which finally went on sale at Her Majesty 's Stationery Office ( HMSO ) in London last month , has been withdrawn , apparently because of a row over the spelling of ‘ ecu ’ , the European currency unit . |
| 20 | It lies in the immediate background of another family of views of consciousness which , at the time I write , is propagated with the zeal which once went into behaviourism . |
| 21 | The Series 6 , which reportedly went into beta two weeks ago , includes two servers , a 700 , carrying a maximum of four CPUs , and a 900 with a maximum of eight . |
| 22 | She dismantled them and used the beads to weight the edges of crocheted food covers , which then went on sale at a craft workshop at Symonds Yat on the Gloucestershire / Herefordshire border . |
| 23 | A similar checklist in the original report , showing companies which used five or more techniques , threw up names like Maxwell Communication Corporation which subsequently went into administration , Asda whose boardroom shake-up followed a £365m pre-tax loss , LEP which is now in the hands of a company doctor , British Aerospace which is about to undergo further restructuring , and Ultramar which was taken over after reporting losses . |
| 24 | But when she eventually went to bed after a leisurely supper sleep proved elusive . |
| 25 | For those of us who only went to church for weddings , christenings , funerals and compulsory church parades , it was usually C of E ( Church of England ) . |
| 26 | Less dramatic but equally puzzling would be the problem posed by the patient who deliberately went on hunger-strike in order to end his suffering . |
| 27 | One player who will definitely not be playing at Wembley is United 's England Under-21 international , Mark Robins , who yesterday went into hospital for a cartilage operation . |
| 28 | We sat before him looking at him with respectful eyes ( that is , all but one of us , who usually went to sleep as soon as the class started ; she was not just closing her eyes , she was fast asleep ) . |
| 29 | She still went to church occasionally , she loved the singing , and in spite of her husband 's example , she still told me ‘ Not to take the Lord 's name in vain . ’ |
| 30 | For some reason ( probably ignorance of the comic art ) Will Hay , the majestic Thirties comedian who also went to school in Stockton was overlooked by the Academy . |