Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I went to Fisherton Street it was a must for me to go to Pickfords , the carriers for The Great Western Railway , just to gaze in the window , for right in the centre was a beautiful scale model of one of their pantechnicons , some two feet in length . |
| 2 | ‘ I wondered how I got to bed . ’ |
| 3 | " I could do well , but I think how I related to people was as important as how well I did at school . |
| 4 | It was certainly overt in Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ( 1964 ) , with its surrealistic emphasis on machinery ( a Coke machine , a wheelchair , telephones , radios , computers , aeroplanes , bombs ) , culminating in the semi-mechanical yet sex-obsessed figure of Dr Strangelove ( Peter Sellers ) himself , whose rebellious mechanical arm keeps rising in a gesture at once phallic and fascist . |
| 5 | By the time I got him home to Walthamstow it was nearly five and the rush hour was warming up , so it was nearer six when I got to Stuart Street . |
| 6 | My self-pity was enhanced at four-thirty when I came to camp . |
| 7 | ‘ Afterwards , when I came to London , I was never really well , although the work I was doing was not hard . ’ |
| 8 | It was after ten o'clock when I came to consciousness of the world about me again . |
| 9 | See when I came to Rhos-y-Bol in nineteen thirty three , there was no St David 's Hospital then , all the babies were born at home . |
| 10 | In 1981 when I came to Region it was n't our concern with the big psychiatric hospitals . |
| 11 | Did you get any pools done tonight because it was nine o'clock when I went to bed and . |
| 12 | Because I knew a lot of nouns and a lot of verbs , I could get by when I went to Algeria in |
| 13 | The last time when I went to court I got an order to go to the day training centre at Camberwell for offenders who keep on getting into trouble . |
| 14 | I saw this piece of rock back in 1986 when I went to America with Gerald Costello for the NCMD to help set up the World Council for Metal Detecting . |
| 15 | It was a very hot and sunny day in 1987 when I went to Semerwater for the open air service , and Yorkshire 's largest natural lake was a hive of activity . |
| 16 | And I sort of started to get itchy feet to come back and do things in the early eighties and that 's when I went to Liverpool , I did a play with , I did Alfie with Alan who just directed the Commitments and er we went to a b and that really got me fired up to start again , and I sort of did some theatre stuff through the bits and pieces through the eighties until Love Hurts came . |
| 17 | There were there were four there this morning when I went to work . |
| 18 | I first met Kyffin Williams in 1961 when I went to Highgate School . |
| 19 | David Most who as you know is a record promoter in England , er I knew twenty five years ago , when I went to England . |
| 20 | It 's when I , when I went to Poland it 's not two or three years , it was nineteen seventy three and I was , I was just coming in into the church and the one Witness was with me and we were going in er big town like Cracow , you know , we were going one way and there was a couple coming erm to meet us like you know in , in , in , on the road , and he was just wearing erm jeans and no shirt , but erm a big , big wooden cross on his chest just reaching really across his chest a wooden cross and then erm a safety pin in his nose and three safety pins attached to one another through his ears and this Witness with me walking down , she says just look at this couple and the girl was , wore the same dress she , she had the top on , you know , but again all sort of queer looking and she , this Witness with me , with me so , she said just look at the two that 's er coming aga to meet us and I said yes and I looked and I said look at the cross and she says yes , it used to be , they used to hang the criminals on the crosses and now the crosses hang on the criminals is n't that lovely , and now the cross is er all the criminals instead of the cross , oh yes |
| 21 | Every week when I went to Brownies , Natalie cried . |
| 22 | Do you know when I went to Gareth 's house and er , he had a you know a house warming party |
| 23 | ranging from when I went to Leeds to that seminar and there were people excited about the Festival and you know , two weeks before the Festival speaking to Jane in London , said oh we 've had a lot of you know and I said well I 'll get back to you in September and tell you |
| 24 | ‘ I only realised what the problem was when I went to Kenya straight after Twin Cities . |
| 25 | That 's when I went to Mona 's room and left a note . ’ |
| 26 | Since Tuesday , when I went to tea with Ivy , I have been living in a dream of confusion and discomfort . |
| 27 | The sun took its toll in August when I went to Britford Sheep Fair with my Uncle Arthur , a civil servant who used to have the whole month for holiday and returned home to learn that Ron Stanley , a schoolmate who lived in The Friary , had died from sunstroke . |
| 28 | I remembered others who had died of it : a sister-in-law , a colleague at work in the days when I commuted to London , and two neighbours . |
| 29 | It was day three when I started to haemorrhage and Lee cried for the first time since his brief squawk at the moment of birth . |
| 30 | ‘ And that 's when I flew to Rome with Ed Danson , a fellow project manager . |