Example sentences of "[noun] and went [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I bought it as a deposit on another car and went on this journey for a reason , ’ he said . |
| 2 | And before I went to school on the Monday , drove back down the marsh and went in this forest trying to find it . |
| 3 | ‘ It started right from when I had coaching and went to national squads , ’ he said . |
| 4 | They had difficulty finding a drummer and went through 10 in a year , recording several demo tapes with different people , before finally settling on Shaun Charman . |
| 5 | Across the street , a woman walked out of Oz for Hair and went into Happy Days Health Foods . |
| 6 | picked boat people and all , dumped them on the deck and went on full steam ahead |
| 7 | While I sympathize with the caller from West Calder , I feel we pay poll tax as well to cover all these things but when I bought my house , my solicitor had me in for two hours and went through all my obligations under the title deeds part of was , that I had to pay one three hundredths of keeping the open areas clean and tidy plus grass cutting . |
| 8 | The first version carried only 48bhp and went from 0 to 60mph in over 16 seconds , but compared to other post-war sports cars it was light , fast and above all , cheap . |
| 9 | She wore it a couple of times , then her husband changed allegiance and went to another make of vintage car ! |
| 10 | Lane , 31 , who opened with a 20ft birdie and went within four inches of an albatross two with a one iron at the eighth , matched the two-under par 286 of Canizares , who led by five overnight but three-putted the final green for a 74 . |
| 11 | As Best defied his own name and went from bad to worse , the former United star had pellets injected into his stomach in a failed bid to combat alcoholism ; he spent time in jail for drunk driving , police assault and jumping bail , and at his most desperate offered his services to any football team willing to pay £1,000 to include him in their team . |
| 12 | We got out of the buggy and went through all these marquees where amongst the exhibits were a striking exhibit of African violets from Tony Clement 's African Violet Centre , at King 's Lynn ; a magnificent display of prizewinning delphiniums and begonias from Blackmore & Langdon who always win a ‘ Gold ’ at Chelsea ; an exquisite display of orchids from Thailand ; planted containers shown by Mastergardener of Banbury ; a beautiful display of lilies by Jacques Amand of Stanmore ; and a Herb Nursery of two hundred varieties , exhibited by Caroline Holmes Herbs of Denham , in Suffolk . |
| 13 | From a hurried clearance , I think , Wallace picked up the ball and went past 4 defenders to the bye-line . |
| 14 | The pamphlet was distributed free in Donegal and went through five reprints up to February 1980 , with 6,500 copies being produced , most of which were distributed free in Donegal . |
| 15 | On one occasion , Du Camp records , ‘ Flaubert was leaving Paris for Rouen when she entered the waiting-room of the station and went through such tragic scenes that the railway officials were obliged to interfere . |
| 16 | The woman suffered bruising to the head and body in the impact and went on sick leave from work . |
| 17 | We bought timber from a timber yard and went to another two builders ' merchants for some specialised bits . |
| 18 | He had spoken to Paul Guillaume , an ambitious and knowledgeable young dealer , about Modigliani and went to some trouble to arrange an introduction . |
| 19 | A newcomer was Flight Lieutenant Rawnsley who had attached himself to L Detachment and went on several of their raids . |
| 20 | He promptly left the farm and went to another , where he helped the maid with her spinning , though refused to divulge his name . |
| 21 | He stood on the table in one lesson and went like this , ‘ grrr ! ’ |
| 22 | Christopher Hope grew up a Catholic in Pretoria and went into voluntary exile , aged thirty-one , in 1975 . |
| 23 | He hit it into the hill and the ball caught the top of the bunker and went in 60 yards from the flag . |
| 24 | He was dropped by Prabhakar in the gully when 73 , and at 89 should have been run out by yards , but Srikkanth 's throw from close range missed the stumps and went for four overthrows . |
| 25 | They used , they used to be about ten quid and you , we all thought it was really good value and went to all of them but erm they 've gone up to like eighteen pounds well that was the last one I went to last year so some of them are twenty two and I paid thirty for one of them but that was at the erm Savoy Hotel that little bluebird one , that 's a real debs ' ball . |
| 26 | Tranmere 's Tony Thomas was booked in the 81st minute for a foul on Andy Legg and went off two minutes later with a leg injury . |
| 27 | We sat down together at a café table and went through some of them together . |