Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [adv] went [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 ) . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | We sat before him looking at him with respectful eyes ( that is , all but one of us , who usually went to sleep as soon as the class started ; she was not just closing her eyes , she was fast asleep ) . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Children who never went to school at all would pick up quite a lot of immediately useful knowledge ; from television and radio , moreover , they might acquire quite a lot of not obviously useful , relatively esoteric bits of information , about history , for example , or natural history . |
7 | Of course , there were always the others who never went to school , who never declared themselves , but lived out their lives very privately , avoiding the school officer , the rent man , the army , and sometimes even prison . |
8 | Billy , the Havildar-Major , was a tiny , wizened man , always smiling and very devout , who never went to sleep without first singing softly to himself all three verses of ‘ Jesus loves me , this I know ’ . |
9 | I 've met old men who never went to sea . |
10 | An even greater criticism is that the vast sums spent should have been spent elsewhere , especially in missionary efforts among the growing number of Englishmen who never went to church or chapel . |
11 | Hugh , who never went to church , adopted a tone of peculiar reverence when faced with the old man whose cassock showed traces of tomato sauce . |
12 | We all sang it with all our hearts — even those of us who never went to church . |
13 | As a ‘ whitey ’ who never went to college , here are some of my opinions . |
14 | George Burley presently came into the dining car and spoke for a while to Nell , who subsequently went from table to table , clipboard in place , repeating what he 'd said . |