Example sentences of "i went [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 In those few days between seeing my surgeon and going back to the X-ray department I went up to that chapel two or three times a day , I did my visualizations with all the intensity that I could summons .
2 Garry Thompson , the Coventry City footballer , told how he was made to take stock of his colour slightly earlier , just after beginning secondary school in Birmingham : ‘ I went up to some guys and asked to play football and they just shut me out .
3 I called to Harry to reassure him , then I went over to that big shed to find a telephone , but I could n't . ’
4 I can not describe to you , my dear sister , what I went through during those three quarters of an hour , seated was as pale as the jasmine I had about my head …
5 That was an experience I went through for many months , not saying anything .
6 If I went on like this , I would fulfil the gloomiest fears of Bill Baudelaire , the Brigadier and , above all , John Millington .
7 I went on in this fashion for some while .
8 Erm so I went straight to this place and there was a fella downstairs , his secretary was erm out on her lunch .
9 I mention this now to Gordon and he chuckles : ‘ I went specially for that shot .
10 One afternoon I went out with another girl for a walk , with the idea of finding a quiet spot in the meadow we called the Big Field , to read and write letters .
11 So when she was going on about Nigerian boys , I said , " So what , if I went out with this guy , you 'd be lucky if he stayed with me . "
12 I went out with this group several times on Saturday and Sunday mornings .
13 If I went anywhere into another flat , I 'd quite fancy going into
14 Well , I went down for that Christmas .
15 And like I went down for that one Monday .
16 I think I went down to most people to say they ca n't , but when you point out something to them , they say yes I can see that , look there 's this as well and I think culturally er were led to believe if you do n't succeed in it , erm but in actual fact I think that you all do , but perhaps I think the books do , either assess it and give it value or , or still allow it to happen
17 And I went down to this bird 's down by the library two weeks ago and this same fella came in with a gram and he was like that , giving out big smokes .
18 I went in to this fella er er er he seemed to know what I was talking about to start with
19 No I , I went in at half past seven in the morning and I was in the operation theatre before quarter to nine that same morning so that morning was taken up and the afternoon and evening , Chris came in the evening tt and er oh er Bob , th the curate , our former curate , came
20 I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed .
21 But I did n't give up , I went in for another and I came third again , and then I gave up , so that was the end of that .
22 Well it 'd probably be the June or July before I went in for this exam , which they did n't hold very frequently and er then I had to pass this exam and that I could leave school in the August , Bank Holiday .
23 Kathleen and I went off for some lunch and we then went to have a look at the castle .
24 I went back to that blasted ship .
25 I went back to that idiot , the jeweller who turned it down .
26 We both winced and I went back to some more work on the sulphonamides , and he to dressing his patients .
27 I went along to some services and again I saw how happy people were .
28 I went along with that too .
29 I went along with this , I even called him a wild buffalo of the American prairie ; but perhaps he was really just a parrot .
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