Example sentences of "went [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As she went up the narrow stairs , Jennifer 's heart was beating . |
| 32 | At seven o'clock that night , William Darling went up the long stairs of the lighthouse to light the big oil lantern . |
| 33 | Corbett went up the great steps of the hospital , past the group of old soldiers , their limbs grotesquely amputated , who enlivened each other with stories of their past . |
| 34 | Rachel went up the communal stairs . |
| 35 | Clinton , Throgmorton and the rest tried to draw Benjamin into conversation as we went up the main steps of the chateau . |
| 36 | Over a period of about eighteen months , her father hit her mother to such an extent that she went into a Battered Wives Home five times , taking her two daughters with her each time . |
| 37 | What kind of strength might they have if they harnessed the determination and cunning which went into the anti-bond protests , the bright and imaginative minds which contribute to fanzines and the patience and good humour shown when visiting supporters are ordered to stand in the rain for half an hour after the final whistle ? |
| 38 | The landlords ' agents went into the leased premises at 6a.m. , when it was vacant , and changed the locks . |
| 39 | Gerry went into the big boys ' class and Julia and I into the kindergarten where infants of three flew past us effortlessly . |
| 40 | When Nigel went into the Left Arts Review he found that a good review of Eleanor 's book was ready and waiting . |
| 41 | In the end the European side went into the 12 singles matches with a two point lead ( 9-7 ) but only after two Yorkshiremen had produced a rearguard action at the end of the day which even General Custer would have been proud of . |
| 42 | ‘ We went in the best seats . |
| 43 | ‘ Here , give over , ’ said Dolly , ‘ I do n't need no scrubbin' brush , I went in the public baths two weeks ago . |
| 44 | Mind yer , we only went in the cheapest seats . |
| 45 | He went from the reputable experts to the shadier middlemen , who traded in dubious goods , and from them to those who traded in anything without asking where it came from . |
| 46 | Well we said , did you not visit and Morpeth and Annick well we we went round a few castles in that area to keep out the rain . |
| 47 | And I wanted a particular tape , oh I know it was a tape I 'd heard a coach driver using on the er on a coach trip that I was on so I got to know what it was erm and er I went round the usual shops no joy |
| 48 | BROUGH PARK is buzzing about the trial time of newcomer Jerpoint Randy , which went round the 500 metres trip in 30.44 secs . |
| 49 | As I went round the various sections of work I was so impressed with the students ' enthusiasm and the very high quality of their work . |
| 50 | Nevertheless , even catering for the eloquence of the after-dinner story teller , this abrupt introduction of Doctor Who into the Serials Department does serve to give an insight into two men who shaped much of what later went before the cold eyes of the BBC cameras . |
| 51 | I went to a special sports school — not Leipzig , ’ she added hastily , to a nod from Erika who knew very well what Leipzig meant in the athletic world of the G.D.R. , the absolute , superlative top — ‘ but I was a second rater there . |
| 52 | Have got today ( Monday 17th ) off ( yippee ! ) but have n't done much — slightly hungover from last night , I went to see Tex Mex with Ruth & Euan & some of their friends , the food was great , & so today had a long lie in then went to a few shops … which were n't open because it 's an Edinburgh holiday … |
| 53 | ‘ I went to a few shops , including Iceland , and to the George pub on Bondgate . |
| 54 | They were met at the front door by a delirious spaniel , who clearly had no idea of funeral decorum , and they proceeded into the front room , where Bill Clough switched on a bulging orangey imitation-coal electric fire , and then went to a horrible drinks cabinet — all plastic and flashing lights . |
| 55 | ‘ I thought you were going to undress me very slowly ? ’ she murmured , as his fingers went to the satin-covered buttons on her blouse . |
| 56 | A few groups of migrants , notably among Germans and Scandinavians , who went to the Great Lakes area of the United States , or the earlier Scots settlers in Canada , exchanged a poor agricultural milieu for a better one : only 10 per cent of the foreign immigrants in the United States in 1880 were in agriculture , mostly not as farmers ‘ possibly ’ , as an observer claimed ‘ on account of the capital required to purchase and stock a farm ’ , ’ the equipment of which alone was reckoned to cost $900 in the early 1870s . |
| 57 | Of the £194.2 million ( $337.9 million ) in the 1991/92 budget , just over £58 million ( $100.9 million ) went to the four nationals ( Royal Opera House , Royal National Theatre , Royal Shakespeare Company , English National Opera ) and the South Bank Centre , with only £3.5 million ( $6.09 million ) for the visual arts , the main clients being the Whitechapel Gallery in London , the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol and the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford . |
| 58 | She clutched the rail to steady herself , reached the deck and went to the closed doors of the lounge . |
| 59 | You went to the Cooperative halls for everything , like that when we were young . |
| 60 | During the late Seventies and early Eighties , all , or almost all of these places went to the fortunate members of the left 's slate . |