Example sentences of "[subord] they went [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so they went to the cinema . |
| 2 | There were no guards in front of the prison , so they went to the gate and waited there . |
| 3 | So she could n't go out to work cos she 'd got young girls to bring up so they went to the social and the social turned round and said to them before we give you any money you 've got ta spend all this bloody redundancy you 've got ta have used all your savings , including the kids savings , and you 've got ta have nothing ! |
| 4 | Thereafter rain restricted them to one-day games and half of a four-day game , so they went into the first Test in Trinidad very under-prepared . |
| 5 | He was carrying a huge bundle of papers and did n't want to walk far , so they went into the Arab cafe beside the Post Office . |
| 6 | Ranulf was about to reply when Dame Agatha suddenly emerged , carrying a small wooden box of altar breads , so they went across the green to reclaim their horses . |
| 7 | If they went to the house and saw him move into the door , they 'd turn out the family , look everywhere and he was not to be found . |
| 8 | If they went to the common law courts , they would be told that the legal estate in the land was vested in the grantee , and that he was entitled to the benefit himself . |
| 9 | If they went for the traditional look I suppose they 'd all be wearing hard hats that looked like the flat cap Victorian cyclists always wore . |
| 10 | Her father , a sailor from Shetland , had been lost at sea , and her mother had to bring her two young children up in desperate poverty until they went to the orphanage . |
| 11 | While they went into the firing blackboards to fire your rounds and you , all you was allowed to fire was five five and then you had to wait , take your turn course everybody had got to go in , they 'd got to check them as everybody got had fired their five there were n't one left up the spout like there was before , course it took time see , and it took us a day , I would say a day , to fire five rounds of ammunition . |
| 12 | She thought they must like singing very much since they went to the chapel so often . |
| 13 | This time around , Chadwick 's approach to recording the album was to spend as much time as possible rehearsing and re-rehearsing the songs before they went into the studio . |
| 14 | You had er , in fact used to use our overhead , to erm test their chassis before they went to the body makers . |
| 15 | ‘ Despite the appalling business of dropping GMTV in it three weeks before they went on the air , it was far better to make a clean break . |
| 16 | Their rugby was essentially unlovable , not because it was dull ( it was n't ) but because it had a rock-hard edge which caused opponents to feel intimidated before they went on the field — and sometimes with good cause since there were plenty of occasions when the ‘ manliness ’ of which Neath made so much was actually foul play , plain and simple . |
| 17 | She had been noting various titles during Joyce 's discourse ; there was a new book about bats that Edward would want , and one or two things she would like to get hold of herself — the sole perquisite of this trade was a surreptitious early pick of incoming titles before they went on the shelves . |
| 18 | Well after they went round the corner one of these erm well stupid young lads in the back er lifted his two fingers on the pickets . |
| 19 | Years ago Constance 's mother had kept chickens at the bottom of the garden , and when they went off the lay one of her sons-in-law had strangled them and she had given them away to the neighbours , being unable to eat a bird she had known personally . |
| 20 | Mrs Hollidaye had asked when they went over the fields to fetch the creamy milk from Home Farm . |
| 21 | However , when they went into the field to try him , he was vicious and unmanageable ; and reared up when anyone endeavoured to mount him . |
| 22 | Eva tolerated them since they paid for Dad 's thoughts and therefore her dinner , but when they went into the bedroom to chant I heard her say to Dad , as she put on her yellow silk blouse for that brilliant evening , ‘ The future should n't contain too much of the past . ’ |
| 23 | When they went into the dining room , Stephen 's mother joined them . |
| 24 | The visit to the Brewery Company presented no problems , and they were in and out of the office within half an hour ; when they went into the chop-house on the stroke of twelve , they were the first customers . |
| 25 | When they went into the big bedroom , Patrick was seated in an armchair facing the door , dressed in his blue serge suit waiting for Rosie . |
| 26 | Everyone had gone except this boorish man and his sleazy dirty place , and the poor old decrepit cleaner , who did n't seem particularly dismayed at the sight that greeted their eyes when they went into the room where the reception had been held . |
| 27 | When they went into the crowded dining-room for dinner two people sprang up and came straight towards them . |
| 28 | Some 2,500 out of over 8,000 workers began taking the masks when they went into the forest to cut wood , collect honey or fish . |
| 29 | When they went into the room , Steiner was standing at the window gripping the bar and looking out . |
| 30 | When they went through the first gate at the bottom of the hill they were out of people 's eyes for the first time since they had met . |