Example sentences of "went in [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then when Evans went in to a selection committee meeting , the reason for Connon 's presence that night , Dalziel had had a long talk with Gwen . |
| 2 | When I went into Panama I needed a visa , I went in without a visa . |
| 3 | I I certainly did n't go in in in in with a rank on my shoulder , I went in as a recruit . |
| 4 | Dessie Loughrey 's long throw was flicked on by Robert Ritchie and the ball deflected off Comrades centre half Dean Gordon and went in off a post . |
| 5 | Freda , from Salford , Manchester , also says a ‘ bungling surgeon ’ at the Northern Manchester Hospital removed the WRONG ovary when she went in with a cyst . |
| 6 | The cool of the garden greeted you as you went in with a breath as welcome as that of the north wind at the top of a house during the season of akhet . |
| 7 | The cloth for their suits was cord ( corduroy ) , as I 've told you ; but sometimes they went in for a suit of heavy tweed — staple tweed it was called ; and at that time they made it as hard as a board . |
| 8 | She went in for a drink one time , she liked a few drinks around midday , she used to say it helped the long hot afternoons slide by , ’ and Nathan smiled to himself , because he could hear her saying it . |
| 9 | While I 'm digging that garden she used to go out roll in the trench what I 'd dug and soon as I went in for a drink she was in there before me ! |
| 10 | The wind caught it and it bounced awkwardly for the St Aloysius defence and Roy Montgomery went in for a try under the posts which was converted by Ross Houghton . |
| 11 | ‘ Court proceedings could be long and drawn out , and how do you prove when a player went in for a tackle he did it with intent to harm his opponent ? |
| 12 | ‘ I had a cartilage operation three and a half years ago , and I went in for a tackle just before Christmas and damaged it again . |
| 13 | I went in for a tackle with Brian Mooney and I came off worse because I broke my right leg . |
| 14 | Cos Rita swears she 's been , I mean I was out with her once and we went in for a coffee and we finished , right , and we 're ready to go and I nearly said to her I hate it after you 've finished and Jackie lights up and then I have to sit there while she has a fag |
| 15 | Schools went in for a lot of physical education , ‘ drill ’ , which involved jumping about in a drafty hall with your skirt tucked into your knickers if you were female . |
| 16 | and somebody said it was because since the stockmarket flopped people drew out and put the money in building societies , building societies were bursting at the seams , did n't want to , and banks as well , did n't know what to do with all this money , so , somebody went in for a loan and asked for fifty thousand and come out with a hundred thousand , they could n't get it out , give it to people , a lot , a lot of people that really er were n't safe gambles |
| 17 | Fibres also went in for a spot of acquisition , buying into the British texturizing industry to give downstream processing capability . |
| 18 | I mean , I ended up staying a month at some bloke 's house after I went in for a pack of strings ! |
| 19 | So I went in for a scholarship with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts . |
| 20 | Her words went in like a knife . |