Example sentences of "went [prep] the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went with the future Edward I on crusade in 1270 , acting as his admiral . |
| 2 | Rashly volunteering to be a contestant , I went along the previous Saturday to practice . |
| 3 | And er I went into the High Hazel seam . |
| 4 | Yeah I went to , we went in the French Pyrenees this January . |
| 5 | ‘ We went to The Grateful Dead 's house last time we were in San Francisco , the house they had in the '60s . |
| 6 | Seventy per cent of coal shipped from Newcastle was London-bound , but half of the residue went to the two East Anglian ports of Yarmouth and King 's Lynn , from which corn formed the return cargo . |
| 7 | His parents are well-off farmers in Somerset , and although he went to the prestigious Ampleforth school , he spent only a year after taking his A levels at agricultural college before becoming a BMW car salesman . |
| 8 | The Richard Dimbleby Award for the year 's most important personal contribution to factual television went to the former BBC political editor , John Cole . |
| 9 | She says ; We went to the first Sands meeting . |
| 10 | Following a spell in Romford he went to the new Walton Heath course in 1904 where he stayed until his death in 1950 , aged 80 . |
| 11 | Mr Brown said : ‘ I went to the old Puddydale school in Heswall and remember rows of desks and bare walls . |
| 12 | The trophy for the cow achieving the highest butter fat and protein records over three years went to the British Holstein Castledon Donfloss 4 , belonging to Norman Gotts , of Wickford , Essex . |
| 13 | The Guardian 's own Milestones Award for long-term creative commitment to the music went to the veteran George Russell , whose greeting from the crowd was as affectionate as it should have been and a services-to-jazz prize sponsored jointly by Wire and Carlsberg/Elephant lager went to John Surman , one of the most gifted members of that talented and ill-rewarded generation of musicians that came between Stan Tracey 's and the new young heroes . |
| 14 | He went to the infamous Son-La forced-labour camp in the jungle on the Thai border where hard-core Communists were able to indoctrinate their fellow convicts . |
| 15 | Then came the smash hit dance movie Footloose , and success and fortune went to the younger Penn 's head . |
| 16 | As a result the Company lost its monopoly ; after 1697 all English merchants could trade with West Africa , though they were supposed to pay a tax of 10 per cent of the value of goods exported from England , the proceeds of which went to the Royal Africa Company to enable it to keep up its forts on the West African coast . |
| 17 | Then we went over the two Harnham Bridges , one with its niches to enable pedestrians to shelter from passing vehicles and so to Exeter Street and home . |