Example sentences of "went [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early one pre-Sale morning a stranger silently passed two sorters working in the vestibule , went for a few minutes into the Church , which happened at eh time to be empty of all nut noods , and then said to them as he walked out ‘ You 've made that Church live . ’ |
| 2 | He was educated at Harrow , from where he went for a few months into his father 's City office , which he hated ; and he spent a term in Göttingen , learning German . |
| 3 | Not only that , but he went for a few shots , bravely teasing back the initiative from Mushtaq and Waqar . |
| 4 | ‘ Down at Atholl , when you went for the new blades , ’ his wife answered from beside the fireplace . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought I went for the Amazonian types , ’ he commented , ladling some of the food on to his plate warily . |
| 6 | ‘ We went for an open systems solution because we wanted to build in flexibility for the future , ’ says ACCOUNTANCY 's Malcolm Cole . |
| 7 | One year older than Leonard , he went through the varying experiences of adolescence with him , sharing not least Leonard 's musical interest ( Morton played both the banjo and the trombone ) , as well as a variety of pastimes and a healthy interest in the fairer sex . |
| 8 | She went through the remaining months of her pregnancy in a turmoil of doubt , anxiety and frustration . |
| 9 | Tom Pritchard , the manager , went through the key points of the car-hire catechism to be faced by every client : |
| 10 | Right last Friday we went through the four stages of selling . |
| 11 | We arrived at 9.30 , went through the usual contortions to buy a ticket , and were told to expect a train at 10.30 . |
| 12 | My right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) went through the various clauses in detail and I do not want to add to anything that he has said . |
| 13 | According to Morgan , when he challenged Docherty , The Doc denied being the source of the story and went through the deceptive rituals of ringing the journalist to complain . |
| 14 | ‘ We went through the proper channels with our application , ’ he said , ‘ following the pattern that was used when we ran the 125 and 250 World Championships . |
| 15 | But , she said , if Dew members wished to they could present it back to her and she would ensure it went through the proper channels for presentation to the borough council . |
| 16 | We lay on the hard , orange clay and went through the different procedures that we would use when we went off to fire on the shooting range . |
| 17 | Patiently , I went through the same arguments that I 'd used with Mazzin himself , emphasizing that we did n't want any trouble but would n't tolerate abuse , and that we felt Islamic Jihad did n't want to cause us unnecessary distress . |
| 18 | The Cabinet committee over , we went through the connecting doors to Number 10 itself and a meeting of the full Cabinet . |
| 19 | In the seminars he went through the latest developments in Pest Control in the UK . |
| 20 | One live pigeon , sitting on the wall … up she went between the dark cliffs , clap clap clap clap … |
| 21 | Monboddo and Johnson debated ‘ whether the Savage or the London Shopkeeper had the best existence , : unamazingly , no firm conclusion was reached , apart from Boswell 's recurring delight at how well the encounter went between the two men . |
| 22 | Now big lorries went past every five minutes , carrying things for the new buildings . |
| 23 | The rusty taxi-cab clattered down the spine of the city and the driver told me what was wrong with Cuba , and we went past the silent skyscrapers , kosher pizzerias , glass-fronted banks , bagel factories , polish gymnasiums with belt-vibrators for rent , pharmacies selling love-potions and roach-killers , and all-night supermarkets where frail young men were buying canned rattlesnake . |
| 24 | CONTRASTING FORTUNES : Geoff Cooke ( left ) was unhappy about referee Brian Kinsey as the Lions were defeated , but All Black Grant Fox ( right ) went past the 1,000 points mark with his winning penalty |
| 25 | She stood up and went towards the waiting men . |
| 26 | Within the general framework of his attack on the humanistic Hegelian tradition of Western Marxism , Althusser 's specific objection to Sartre 's attempt to mediate Marxism with existential subjectivity was that such a move went against the crucial discoveries which had founded Marxism in the first place ; in an extension of Lévi-Strauss ' argument , he maintained that the notion of ‘ man ’ that Sartre used was derived from a particular ideological definition of the human subject which represses Marx 's insight that the human subject is not the centre of history , together with Freud 's that the subject is not centred in consciousness . |
| 27 | As it happened all his discoveries went against the Peripatetic views , and as he advanced so the attacks on him grew , largely because the lesser ones among opponents saw their cosy lives of repetitions of dogma in danger . |
| 28 | Dr Russell insisted that I went with the convalescent men and we were lucky to pick up one of the last trains to go northwards . |
| 29 | The week before they were going to Dublin he went with the two girls and Rose to Boles in the town . |
| 30 | We went with the sixth formers las last summer we went to see The Tempest and it 's such a beautiful place you know , it 's you 're outdoors but it 's quite weird the way they do it , because you 're like in a canopy but the actual stage it outdoors , so you 're covered but you get a bit cold and you need to take woollies and things , it can get a bit cold out there , but it should be nice in the summer . |