Example sentences of "went [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Down at Atholl , when you went for the new blades , ’ his wife answered from beside the fireplace . |
2 | ‘ I thought I went for the Amazonian types , ’ he commented , ladling some of the food on to his plate warily . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | She went through the remaining months of her pregnancy in a turmoil of doubt , anxiety and frustration . |
5 | Tom Pritchard , the manager , went through the key points of the car-hire catechism to be faced by every client : |
6 | Right last Friday we went through the four stages of selling . |
7 | We arrived at 9.30 , went through the usual contortions to buy a ticket , and were told to expect a train at 10.30 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | ‘ 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | The Cabinet committee over , we went through the connecting doors to Number 10 itself and a meeting of the full Cabinet . |
15 | In the seminars he went through the latest developments in Pest Control in the UK . |
16 | One live pigeon , sitting on the wall … up she went between the dark cliffs , clap clap clap clap … |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 |
20 | She stood up and went towards the waiting men . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | The week before they were going to Dublin he went with the two girls and Rose to Boles in the town . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | As she went up the narrow stairs , Jennifer 's heart was beating . |
27 | At seven o'clock that night , William Darling went up the long stairs of the lighthouse to light the big oil lantern . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | Rachel went up the communal stairs . |
30 | Clinton , Throgmorton and the rest tried to draw Benjamin into conversation as we went up the main steps of the chateau . |