Example sentences of "[pron] went [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those few days between seeing my surgeon and going back to the X-ray department I went up to that chapel two or three times a day , I did my visualizations with all the intensity that I could summons . |
| 2 | Yes , but beating , I smoke sixty cigarettes a day and I would n't care just now , if I went up to twenty stone ! |
| 3 | Garry Thompson , the Coventry City footballer , told how he was made to take stock of his colour slightly earlier , just after beginning secondary school in Birmingham : ‘ I went up to some guys and asked to play football and they just shut me out . |
| 4 | I called to Harry to reassure him , then I went over to that big shed to find a telephone , but I could n't . ’ |
| 5 | Then , just before that gig , I went over to Central School of Art in Holborn and swung us another gig there . |
| 6 | Daphne recalls how , early on , ‘ I made the mistake of allowing one to become too fond of me and , when I went away for two weeks , she died of a broken heart . |
| 7 | In return , she offered to look after my own birds when I went away for one weekend ( it was after the war but rationing was still in force , and most people who could , kept chickens ) . |
| 8 | Just before Christmas I moved jobs , and in the middle of January I went away for three days on a course . |
| 9 | I can not describe to you , my dear sister , what I went through during those three quarters of an hour , seated was as pale as the jasmine I had about my head … |
| 10 | That was an experience I went through for many months , not saying anything . |
| 11 | The next night I went on without Dutch courage and flattened a drunken heckler with a couple of speedy put-downs that came from nowhere ( 't was I , your valiant defence mechanism again ) and a new career was born . |
| 12 | I was meant to talk for fifteen minutes but I went on for three-quarters of an hour . |
| 13 | But I went on to bigger clubs . ’ |
| 14 | So I went on to reciprocal for 10 minutes to seek a more friendly environment , which I did , and then set course again . |
| 15 | ‘ Anyway , when I went on to high school , I moved over to '70s American stuff — Television , The dB 's , Richard Hell And The Voidoids , Alex Chilton and Big Star . |
| 16 | If I went on like this , I would fulfil the gloomiest fears of Bill Baudelaire , the Brigadier and , above all , John Millington . |
| 17 | I went on in this fashion for some while . |
| 18 | Erm so I went straight to this place and there was a fella downstairs , his secretary was erm out on her lunch . |
| 19 | I mention this now to Gordon and he chuckles : ‘ I went specially for that shot . |
| 20 | ‘ I went home at 9.30 , grey and scared . |
| 21 | I experienced the medical practice side , I went out for two or three assignments to get a feel for it and it 's doable . |
| 22 | ‘ I know I went to the ice rink and the pictures with Bill O'Hagan but he knew I went out with other fellows as well . |
| 23 | Honestly , always was , ver-near Divorce Proceedings every time I went out with emdy for a Campari after the Country Dancing … |
| 24 | One afternoon I went out with another girl for a walk , with the idea of finding a quiet spot in the meadow we called the Big Field , to read and write letters . |
| 25 | So when she was going on about Nigerian boys , I said , " So what , if I went out with this guy , you 'd be lucky if he stayed with me . " |
| 26 | I went out with this group several times on Saturday and Sunday mornings . |
| 27 | Two months before the murder of Sir Danvers Carew I went out on one of my evil adventures . |
| 28 | Mm I did and I , course I went out at eleven so |
| 29 | If I went anywhere into another flat , I 'd quite fancy going into |
| 30 | Well , I went down for that Christmas . |