Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] went [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I , I mean Jimmy it was only last Friday I went down to have me hair done and I walked from the hairdressers down to Street to get the wallpaper |
| 2 | The dog refused to budge , so , instructing the two older girls to hold tight to the younger , I heaved up the 196lb of stubborn fur and staggered to the railing I went down to extricate my struggling son and carried him upwards followed by shrieking pleas of , ‘ Daddy , do n't leave us ’ and ‘ I want a carry ’ , from the frantic tadpole in charge of two red-faced little girls who were now starting to show signs of stain and filling tear-ducts . |
| 3 | The competition was started five years ago by Shildon Town Council , supported by Durham County Council and Northern Arts , to honour the memory of Sid Chaplin , the pitman who went on to become one of the North-East 's most respected authors and playwrights . |
| 4 | The competition was started five years ago by Shildon Town Council , supported by Durham County Council and Northern Arts , to honour the memory of Sid Chaplin , the pitman who went on to become one of the North-East 's most respected authors and playwrights . |
| 5 | His book Chemical Method was translated in 1855 by William Odling , a prominent figure at the Royal Institution who went on to become Professor of Chemistry at Oxford in the 1870s , as courses in science there became important . |
| 6 | Harry Fry , John Ross and Jimmy Rutherford , ordinary Scots who went off to fight for a cause in Spain and who were not to return . |
| 7 | ‘ We did n't get the run of this race , ’ said Richard who went on to win the next with Notley . |
| 8 | After tea we went out to play . |
| 9 | As a result they went on to argue for sole custody in step-parent situations on the assumption of children having one ‘ psychological parent ’ with whom they maintain a continuous relationship and bond . |
| 10 | But you know on his log book , last person that had the car he went down to see them , and they told him that it were thirty thousand over from when they sold it . |
| 11 | I once sat on a Labour-controlled council which went out to tender and would not accept the lowest tender because it did not come from a direct labour department . |
| 12 | The photograph was taken in 1987 and shows and up and coming local athlete who went on to compete in the Olympic Games . |
| 13 | Botham had the first six wickets before Marshall and Baptiste held him up for while , Marshall being lucky not to be on the wrong end of a legendary catch when Don Topley , a groundstaff boy who went on to play for Essex , brilliantly caught him one-handed on the square leg boundary , only to put one foot over the rope . |
| 14 | No wonder he went back to look for more . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We really upset those Belgians — and Apoel are n't anywhere near as good as Antwerp who went on to reach the final . |
| 16 | It was Ashenden who went upstairs to knock on the door of Room 46 . |
| 17 | Early in the evening she went home to get her brown envelope . |
| 18 | So that evening they went out to spend some of it . |
| 19 | After the dissolution he went overseas to serve as a volunteer in the Dutch army . |
| 20 | After leaving Bristol he went on to do postgraduate work at Reading University and is now organist of Dunstable Priory . |
| 21 | One afternoon we went together to see an Italian filmed opera in a small cinema off Grafton Street which specialised in foreign films . |
| 22 | The other day when we had a very hot day , it was quite a hot day and over mid day I went out to do something in the garden there and her milk was still on the step and it was in the sun . |
| 23 | ‘ They phoned me at home on a Friday evening and that night I went out to celebrate , ’ she said . |
| 24 | But friends assured me there was more to this grand range of mountains than my experience had suggested , and so to give it a chance I went back to climb Cairn Gorm properly , giving the bridies as wide a body swerve as possible . |
| 25 | They granted the second subsidy only on condition that the king himself went abroad to try to bring an end to the war . |
| 26 | From rings she went on to study and catalogue collections of cameos and other jewels from antiquity to the present . |
| 27 | Naturally , it was mainly the best dancers who went abroad to work . |
| 28 | The two officers who went in to arrest the Marquess , Sgt Michael Tate and PC Patrick Murphy , were involved in ‘ quite a violent struggle ’ with him , said a Metropolitan Police spokesman . |
| 29 | ‘ I know , we met her , Tom and I. We went out to stay with Francis , years ago . |
| 30 | ‘ In my day we went out to break an opponent 's concentration — not his leg . |