Example sentences of "they went [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Léonie collected Thérèse and they went across the white gravel in the sunshine . |
| 2 | Years ago Constance 's mother had kept chickens at the bottom of the garden , and when they went off the lay one of her sons-in-law had strangled them and she had given them away to the neighbours , being unable to eat a bird she had known personally . |
| 3 | They went off the next day and recorded the track for the ‘ Sergeant Pepper ’ LP , it was awful , ’ he says . |
| 4 | ‘ Just going for a bit of a hit , Malcolm , ’ he called , as they went past the sick bay . |
| 5 | When the meal was over , they went for a late drink , then for a dance . |
| 6 | Saunders , playing his final match for Liverpool before his £2.3m move to Aston Villa , clashed with Elliott in the 10th minute as they went for a 50-50 ball . |
| 7 | If they went for the traditional look I suppose they 'd all be wearing hard hats that looked like the flat cap Victorian cyclists always wore . |
| 8 | They went to a strange place , with no piers or fun-fairs or candy floss . |
| 9 | Okay , so they got the base line measurement , thirty five percent people use them , then they went to a variable ratio er token economy system . |
| 10 | The first victim to give evidence against him , a 26-year-old secretary , was raped after being served spiked champagne at his surgery before they went to a mutual friend 's home for dinner . |
| 11 | His first victim , a 26-year-old secretary , was raped after being served spiked champagne at his surgery before they went to a mutual friend 's home for dinner in February 1991 . |
| 12 | They went to a tiny bar in Piazza Matteotti . |
| 13 | On the next afternoon , as Paul was free , they went to a certain arcade to buy the ring , with Ellen following as always . |
| 14 | As they could not afford haute couture they went to a little shop opposite their theatre which was called Mama 's and the owner allowed them to put money aside weekly to buy the dresses they wanted . |
| 15 | Oh they w they went to a little cottage in Llaneilian . |
| 16 | Also the decision to employ or not to employ is based ont he particular case : it is extremely rare that someone is given a job just because they went to a particular university . |
| 17 | And did you say your brothers did n't go there though , they went to a different school ? |
| 18 | They went to a floodlit performance of Mireille in the Roman arena in Nîmes . |
| 19 | They went to a Greek restaurant in Charlotte Street . |
| 20 | Last night they went to a back-street sauna , chatted politely , stripped , had sex with complete stranger , got dressed , went home , and did n't even trade phone numbers . |
| 21 | They went to an Indian restaurant , where he talked and talked , and she listened very carefully , matching what he said with her imaginings of it all . |
| 22 | Yeah , but of course they went to the right |
| 23 | They went to the International Red Cross and the CDHES and got me released . |
| 24 | If American think-tankers would find Germany odd , they would be floored by Japan — but would cock an interested eyebrow when they went to the Soviet Union . |
| 25 | They went to the nearest cinema : it was an American film , dubbed , from one of Hemingway 's short stories . |
| 26 | They went to the secret garden and entered it together . |
| 27 | They after all , they went to the tiniest details . |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | And then they went to the different islands and I remember this for when we were at the hotel me brother and me went across , well me was on it too we were all young then . |