Example sentences of "[adv] went [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite a large group apparently went to work as compositors in the south of England , if that is the right interpretation to put on the mention " gone to Colchester " which is recorded against the names of some women in the trade-union membership registers which are the chief source for this information . |
| 2 | For those of us who only went to church for weddings , christenings , funerals and compulsory church parades , it was usually C of E ( Church of England ) . |
| 3 | ‘ I only went to school for two years , ’ says Maxima Flores , forty-year-old mother of four . |
| 4 | He sprang into action when wife Ann , 26 , suddenly went into labour in the middle of the night . |
| 5 | Abraham finally went to sleep on the waggon . |
| 6 | THE TEXT of the Maastricht Treaty , which finally went on sale at Her Majesty 's Stationery Office ( HMSO ) in London last month , has been withdrawn , apparently because of a row over the spelling of ‘ ecu ’ , the European currency unit . |
| 7 | Mrs Thompson 's daughter , Elizabeth , said her mother generally went to bed at 7 pm until 7 am and always turned the heating off , leaving the house quite cold . |
| 8 | I just went to bed for a sleep ’ , he revealed . |
| 9 | And she got herself ready for bed and you know just went to bed by herself . |
| 10 | And my father I think just went to school in the Wintertime . |
| 11 | I just went from person to person and asked if they needed help when a policeman asked me to come and take a look at Johnathan . |
| 12 | Yet he just went from strength to strength . |
| 13 | he certainly found me and from there we just went from strength to strength and erm were still have together . |
| 14 | I used to read to the family , and pray with them in the evening , and then I usually went to bed at nine o'clock . |
| 15 | But North still went in fear of ingratitude . |
| 16 | Ooh they sometimes used to get books or er they used to get some nice prizes you know , and books and er and that and er and when I was little I once went on stage for a in a skipping competition . |
| 17 | Less dramatic but equally puzzling would be the problem posed by the patient who deliberately went on hunger-strike in order to end his suffering . |
| 18 | As for some of these Territorial officers — temporary officers , he labelled them … about as likely to amount to anything if they ever went to war as a commercial traveller or a third rate comedian in a music hall . |
| 19 | AS THE pound continued to sink , moving below the symbolic DM2.95 figure on the foreign exchanges , and shares plummeted , Nigel Lawson yesterday went into retreat at his Leicestershire constituency home to draft tomorrow 's make-or-break speech for the Conservative conference . |
| 20 | One player who will definitely not be playing at Wembley is United 's England Under-21 international , Mark Robins , who yesterday went into hospital for a cartilage operation . |
| 21 | He always went to sleep with his still burning , so he got through a lot more than she did . |
| 22 | Dooley 's personal tragedy was so awful — he was so young and talented and he took the blow with such heroic , idiotic stoicism ( ‘ It 's my one regret that the ball did n't finish in the net ’ ) — that a substantial sum was raised for him and he later went to work for the club . |
| 23 | After his release in the mid-1970s he became a successful businessman and hotelier but later went into exile in Rome , where he helped finance the USC , returning to Somalia in late 1990 . |
| 24 | From 1870 to 1880 he was at the office of the architect Thomas Henry Wyatt [ q.v. ] , and later went into partnership with the latter 's son Matthew . |
| 25 | For some reason ( probably ignorance of the comic art ) Will Hay , the majestic Thirties comedian who also went to school in Stockton was overlooked by the Academy . |
| 26 | Knights also went to war in company ; a number , sometimes from the same lordship , would serve in the retinue of a great lord . |
| 27 | During 1822 he also went into business as a retail goldsmith and jeweller in Bond Street with John Mortimer ( died 1871 ) . |
| 28 | Rafferty had the opposite experience to Couples on the fifth , kicking off a bank into the lake , and also went in water on the long 16th . |
| 29 | She lived out of doors and often went to work in the fields with the contadini . |
| 30 | She often went by train to some distant party beyond the reach of horses . |