Example sentences of "[pers pn] went [adv prt] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I went round a house the other week the kid had been caught shoplifting and the father wanted to fight me .
2 I used to love riding , but I went over a jump seven years ago and the horse stopped , but I kept on going , and I fractured my back , so I thought , I 'm too old for that .
3 I dreamt I went I think I went to France , I think I was , I went on a day trip to France
4 order the parts and everything , so I went down a couple of days later I said just for curiosity what 's , what 's it gon na cost us this bloody lot ?
5 She went along a path above St Saviour 's Point where guillemots soared and gannets plunged , wings folded , into the sea below .
6 She went out a girl , she returned home a woman .
7 We went down a passageway to a small panelled hall .
8 Once when they went round a corner she swayed against him and caught his arm to steady herself .
9 Though she was huddled in the corner as far from him as she could get , the car was n't very big , and every time they went round a corner his thigh and shoulder pressed against hers .
10 To the right and a ten by eight to the left and then they went up a grade and they drove up same on both .
11 They went down a flight of steps on the river walk .
12 They went down an alleyway and in at a door .
13 JACKO kept fuming police waiting for nearly an hour as he went on a midnight shopping spree — for new toys .
14 His operational flying looked as promising as his civilian flying had , until he went on a night bombing raid over Constantinople .
15 He went on a while about the various tests but where he came out was that she 'd been dead for at least five days , and seven was perfectly possible .
16 Ah , but he went up a railway track , did n't he ?
17 He went out a couple of hours ago .
18 He were a remarkable man in his way : he went down a well to clean it out on the day he died .
19 As the vote approached , it seemed likely that the favoured version would not actually stop spending if it went over a cap , but merely require a special vote to approve or disapprove it .
20 A thirteen year old boy has fallen through the window of his school bus as it went round a corner .
21 Chap might have just set the bomb and been taken unawares when it went off a bit early .
22 My speech was directed at Karen Parsons , and whatever reservations you or I may have about it , I can assure you it went down a treat with its target audience .
23 It went down a treat with the matrons in safe seats like South-west Surrey .
24 But it was worse before , after I had a shower it went down a bit , but it was really red and .
25 Some of us went round a guy 's flat .
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