Example sentences of "and they went [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She slipped her arm through her sister 's , and they went into the dining-room , where a small fire was burning . |
| 2 | They went to the hotel , where Filmer and the other owners from the train are staying , and they went into the bar for a drink . |
| 3 | Mr Hill : Yes , now , during the war most men between 19 and 38 got called up and they went into the army , navy , airforce and fire-brigade or they had been drafted into factories to make tanks , aeroplanes and munitions so some things , areas , like farming were very short of labour . |
| 4 | However , Albert got over that , and so did Jim , and they went into the sitting-room , where Bella was sitting in mini-gear frighteningly too young for her , with office folders on her lap . |
| 5 | He said , ‘ Deal , ’ and they went into the library . |
| 6 | The door in the high wall was open and they went into the garden . |
| 7 | ‘ You can tell me all about this while you pour me a drink , ’ he said quietly and they went into the kitchen . |
| 8 | Corbett gave a child a penny to hold the horses and they went into the priest 's house . |
| 9 | He wanted to speak , to say anything so as not to seem sullen or graceless , but there was nothing ; and they went into the restaurant stiffly , not looking at each other . |
| 10 | Léonie collected Thérèse and they went across the white gravel in the sunshine . |
| 11 | Fritz scurried off and returned with a reluctant Paul and they went to the door . |
| 12 | Mum and Dad were over here for a holiday a while ago and they went to the Cotswolds which they said were beautiful . |
| 13 | His sister came to England in July , and they went to the Isle of Wight together for a little over three weeks . |
| 14 | He 'd met Sean Penn maybe 20 times , and they went to the same clubs on Melrose and Sunset , even if not at the same time or on the same night . |
| 15 | The Americans decided that an armed resistance was necessary and they went to the United Nations , shades of Bosnia here , they went to the United Nations to get support and , as luck would have it , the Soviets were sulking , this was quite common in the nineteen forties and fifties , and the a the Soviet ambassador to the U N was having a sulk and was refusing to attend the Security Council and he therefore persuaded the Security Council to pass a resolution er producing a United Nations force to aid plucky little South Korea against its vicious oppressive northern neighbours and so the Korean war started and the United Nations ' forces were commanded by one General Douglas MacArthur , General Douglas MacArthur , in case you do n't know , won the second world war single handedly |
| 16 | and they went to the wrong door and said is this car anything |
| 17 | three spastics and they went to the ice-cream van . |
| 18 | The door closed behind them , and they went down the short path . |
| 19 | Juliet called back to her mother , and they went down the path to the car . |
| 20 | All government money and when my father was , after the , after the war he had a little old dredger , little grab dredger and they went along the quay dredging it all up and er , course they took so much out the hole , scrubbed it , all good coal again . |
| 21 | Police officers opened boxes and bags in the attics where furnishings were being stored for a new extension , and they went through the rest of the house just as painstakingly . |
| 22 | Well , the next thing right , the bus was flagged down right , as he was going past York Street Police Station , and , a policeman come out and says , hey you mu , he stopped the bus man , the police waved the bus down , like , me and Margot were sitting on the bus going to work like , and they went in the bus and said is Margot Mar Margot on the bus ? |