Example sentences of "[pers pn] went [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I went up into a tree and I stayed there all night . |
| 2 | I got an elbow in the face as I went up for a header and I remember putting my head down and running straight into Bull 's back . |
| 3 | I went up for a weekend . |
| 4 | I went up for a closer look . |
| 5 | You 're much too young to be thinking about boys , when I was your age I went around in a big friendly group , plenty of time for all that later on . |
| 6 | ‘ I went on to a party in Cambridge after I 'd been catching swifts , and in the middle of the party a horrible large green thing , a flightless parasitic fly , found on swifts , crawled crabwise out of my hair on to my dinner jacket — it was a dinner jacket sort of party . |
| 7 | At a show in a dilapidated disco in Barrow-in-Furness , I went on after a community pantomime , in which the wicked witch — a local Labour councillor — was booed off by trade unionists involved in industrial action . |
| 8 | On the other hand , after a glance at ‘ Luck of the Legion ’ , I went about for a week with a white handkerchief tucked into the back of my cap , ordering the dog to about-face or wooing it with words of French culled from the strip ( ‘ Oo-ee , mon pet it ’ ) . |
| 9 | In the evening I went out to a club , stayed up all night , was late for work the next morning , got sacked and ever since then the rest of the staff have been kind enough to pretend that I 'm still one of them . |
| 10 | I went out for a walk , then picked blackberries on Periton Hill , in that far clump at the edge of the downs . |
| 11 | I went out for a walk because I could n't stand being indoors . |
| 12 | I went out for a drink just after seven — at the Sir Richard Steele on Haverstock Hill . |
| 13 | I went out for a walk yesterday . |
| 14 | I went out of a daytime working , chequebooks and all that kind of thing , but it gets boring after a while . |
| 15 | I went out with a new boy for a while and we fell in love . |
| 16 | I went out on a board George Downing had built for me . |
| 17 | I had been wept on by so many boyfriends that , had Home Sister known , she would have warned me of the dangers of pneumonia every time I went out on a date . |
| 18 | I went out like a light . |
| 19 | Something hit me on the back of the head , here , and I went out like a light . |
| 20 | This week , I went out in a new , ankle-length skirt for the first time . |
| 21 | Having agreed that this was a good idea , David and I went down to a pub called The Three Tuns , which is in Beckenham High Street . |
| 22 | Surkov , in a Yale T-shirt , was sitting alone at a table when I went down to a late breakfast . |
| 23 | After I did the course for two weeks I went down to a place in Ashford and I was in Ashford for twelve weeks , came back to Chelmsford , did another two weeks and then I was released as what 's known as probationer constable , a probationer constable . |
| 24 | Well I went down to a rental firm , you know |
| 25 | Mm , I thought I 'd get it , I really did think I 'd get it and I went down with a bump when I did n't |
| 26 | When I went into Panama I needed a visa , I went in without a visa . |
| 27 | I I certainly did n't go in in in in with a rank on my shoulder , I went in as a recruit . |
| 28 | I mean , I ended up staying a month at some bloke 's house after I went in for a pack of strings ! |
| 29 | So I went in for a scholarship with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts . |
| 30 | ‘ I had a cartilage operation three and a half years ago , and I went in for a tackle just before Christmas and damaged it again . |