Example sentences of "went [prep] [art] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 For a while the television channel went off the air as protesters swarmed into the building , before troops and government supporters pushed them out .
2 The second series really went off the boil because there was much more emphasis on the woman lawyer .
3 He now ate what I cooked , and went for a drive when I had time .
4 One day the three young people went for a walk while the old man rested .
5 But I think if you went for the figure as proposed by the H B F , you would be going actively against the regeneration statutory which is the erm the government 's policy .
6 Erm which is why I went for the downstairs cos I had a choice of either .
7 ‘ I hastily fitted it up and went through the pretence because I did n't want him knowing where I really live . ’
8 The actress went through the ordeal when she was just six years old .
9 The visiting party , including an HMI in attendance , was horrified , dropped their agenda for the second day and went through the problems as they had perceived them with the management group and the Academic Board :
10 We went about a mile before they tired of the effort involved , and I did n't mean to go much further in any case because according to the map I had in my pocket we were by then in about the centre of the western spur of the Quillersedge woods .
11 Grandad never went near a pub because of what he said they put in the beer .
12 More or less I think it went against the entries because the members just would n't turn up to the meetings .
13 She should remember that she went with a man when she was sixteen .
14 I went up the steps until the water barely covered my ankles and tried the doorlatch .
15 He recalled his telling him about the time he went into a pub when a man suggested having sex with him and pulled down his trousers in front of the assembled company .
16 A PILOT called Randy went into a tailspin when his girl-friend gave him the elbow .
17 Scherk died in tragic circumstances ( he suffered from diabetes and went into a coma when no one was around to give him an injection of insulin ) .
18 Another day I went into the Siq when the sun was setting and the air was already chill .
19 They went into the school as the girls brought out the ponies , a docile , shiny lot compared with the animals at home , Hoomey decided .
20 He went into the scheme because he thought it would be fun .
21 I went into the kitchen as she asked me to have a few words with the ‘ factotum ’ ( 'She seems to be rather taken with your looks ' ) .
22 I went into the bank while I was in Matlock . ’
23 The young Mary Pickford went into the industry as the Progressive phase approached its zenith , and for Griffith she played criminals and prostitutes ; she went on to portray a whole variety of poor hard-done-by girls , many of them immigrants , many of them immoral or pregnant , before in 1916 she played a factory worker in the most memorably titled of all the films of this era The Eternal Grind .
24 He behaved as if he had n't seen Marie , and the girl went into the house when Jenna stared at her forcefully .
25 People came out of the forest and went into the forest as they had done for centuries , making the deep tracks down Steep Ridgery .
26 I mean I , I never went in a car when I was a child .
27 That is , his mother inherited the School first and never went in a train if she could help it .
28 Oh Shane , who went in the lounge when you 're not meant to ?
29 The children in small groups went inside the stables while the others waited .
30 Also , I lost the green tape that went round the edge so the ball used to shoot off at speed .
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