Example sentences of "and then went [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Jordanian canteen manager noticed that the expiry date stamped on the cases by the Dutch manufacturers had already passed ; he sent a telex to Tripoli explaining his reasons for refusing to accept delivery , and then went on holiday . |
| 2 | A LONE gunman killed a French Nazi collaborator yesterday , and then went on television to claim responsibility . |
| 3 | Mr Vassiliou , a 61-year-old self-made millionaire , telephoned his opponent to congratulate him and then went on television to concede defeat and appeal for national unity . |
| 4 | He was ordained deacon in 1863 and priest in 1864 , served for two years as his father 's curate in Langley Burrell , Wiltshire , and then went as curate to Clyro , Radnorshire . |
| 5 | She had originally run it with first husband Stephen and then went to work at the Midland pub opposite Central station . |
| 6 | She had originally run it with first husband Stephen and then went to work at the Midland pub opposite Central station . |
| 7 | The Dormouse woke up for a minute and then went to sleep again . |
| 8 | However , her feelings of hopelessness increased over the next 3 weeks and late one night , after she had been drinking alone , she took an overdose of the tranquillizer mixed with paracetamol and then went to bed . |
| 9 | Nothing happened at all , she waited all day to see , and then went to bed , no doubt very pleased with herself . |
| 10 | I sang and danced in town , and then went to bed in Edinburgh Castle . |
| 11 | ‘ Last night I went to an art exhibition in my sister-in-law 's gallery and then went to dinner to celebrate my brother-in-law 's birthday . |
| 12 | It used every means at its disposal : it argued and pressured the Versailles politicians ; it cheated in the plebiscites ; it engineered uprisings in Silesia and Wielkopolska ; it skirmished and then went to war with the Red Army for territory in the east . |
| 13 | At school he had a three-year affair with a fellow student — ‘ a rummaging around adolescent affair ’ — and then went to college ‘ and got into girls ’ . |
| 14 | I tried running but gave up after two paces , and then went from meditation to mental arithmetic , calculating the length of each step by counting them for each revolution of the wheel . |