Example sentences of "and [adv] went [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides cleaning up the city 's litter , he was determined to cure its chronic pollution problem , and duly went to war on public and private traffic , proposing a total ban from some areas . |
| 2 | At the Gloucester Forest Eyre in July 1634 he produced perambulations of 1228 and 1282 , ‘ both agreeing that the Bounds of the Forrest [ of Dean ] began at Gloucester Bridge , and so went to Monmouth Bridge and Chepstow Bridge , and came round again by the Severne to Gloucester . ’ |
| 3 | Only this : it is misleading to suggest that a socialist alternative qualitatively different from the actual record of 1964–70 existed in potentia and merely went by default , on account of a failure of political will . |
| 4 | He was educated at Harrow , won an exhibition to New College , Oxford , where he failed to take a degree , and finally went to Trinity College , Dublin ( BA and MA , 1919 ) . |
| 5 | Quinn eased the armchair away from the wall , grunted a few times for the benefit of the wall microphone , switched off the tape-recorder , rolled on to the bed and genuinely went to sleep . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Amy Roberts , a winner in 1991 , was given a special prize of two tickets for Me and My Girl , and later went to Edinburgh Playhouse with her mother , Ruth . |
| 8 | In his refreshing book Mr Veseth looks at Victorian Britain , which improved on Florence 's commercial ideas , particularly public debt , and also went into decline ; and at present-day America , which is deeply in debt but might , he argues , avoid decline if it takes brave decisions . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She lived out of doors and often went to work in the fields with the contadini . |
| 11 | She continued to visit her former foster parents and even went on holiday to Spain with them . |
| 12 | When he spent the Whitsun weekend with John Hayward in Cambridge , he looked " very haggard and washed out and dispirited " and simply went to sleep on Hayward 's bed for two afternoons . |
| 13 | The sound went up and then went beyond Masklin 's hearing . |
| 14 | The Jordanian canteen manager noticed that the expiry date stamped on the cases by the Dutch manufacturers had already passed ; he sent a telex to Tripoli explaining his reasons for refusing to accept delivery , and then went on holiday . |
| 15 | A LONE gunman killed a French Nazi collaborator yesterday , and then went on television to claim responsibility . |
| 16 | Mr Vassiliou , a 61-year-old self-made millionaire , telephoned his opponent to congratulate him and then went on television to concede defeat and appeal for national unity . |
| 17 | He was ordained deacon in 1863 and priest in 1864 , served for two years as his father 's curate in Langley Burrell , Wiltshire , and then went as curate to Clyro , Radnorshire . |
| 18 | She had originally run it with first husband Stephen and then went to work at the Midland pub opposite Central station . |
| 19 | She had originally run it with first husband Stephen and then went to work at the Midland pub opposite Central station . |
| 20 | ‘ We got offered a lot of European dates after Reading , ’ says Gordon , ‘ but we backed off to rehearse and then went to America . |
| 21 | You worked at Needham during the war and then went to Ipswich . |
| 22 | She was privately educated , and then went to Lady Margaret Hall , Oxford , where she took a third class in classical honour moderations in 1897 . |
| 23 | From Jibuti my father crossed to Aden and then went to Cairo to confer with Sir Reginald Wingate , the High Commissioner , while we went to Berbera to stay with Geoffrey Archer , the Commissioner in British Somaliland ; he and his wife had stayed with us at the Legation for Zauditu 's coronation in February . |
| 24 | The Dormouse woke up for a minute and then went to sleep again . |
| 25 | However , her feelings of hopelessness increased over the next 3 weeks and late one night , after she had been drinking alone , she took an overdose of the tranquillizer mixed with paracetamol and then went to bed . |
| 26 | Nothing happened at all , she waited all day to see , and then went to bed , no doubt very pleased with herself . |
| 27 | I sang and danced in town , and then went to bed in Edinburgh Castle . |
| 28 | ‘ Last night I went to an art exhibition in my sister-in-law 's gallery and then went to dinner to celebrate my brother-in-law 's birthday . |
| 29 | It used every means at its disposal : it argued and pressured the Versailles politicians ; it cheated in the plebiscites ; it engineered uprisings in Silesia and Wielkopolska ; it skirmished and then went to war with the Red Army for territory in the east . |
| 30 | He returned to Washington and then went to Switzerland . |