Example sentences of "he went [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just in case he met any of the Springall household he went down Friday Street , turning into Bread Street and back up St Mary Le Bow . |
| 2 | In 1965 he went to Tangier with Orton and Halliwell . |
| 3 | He went to work for an organisation that combined the roles of an issuing house and a conglomerate . |
| 4 | Instead he went to work for Famous Players-Lasky , first as a subtitle writer and then as a screenwriter . |
| 5 | He went to work in the local cotton mill where his father was an ‘ overlooker ’ . |
| 6 | I have not seen Brian Way for a few years now , since he went to work in America , but if he is continually developing his philosophy and practice at the rate Dorothy Heathcote is refining hers , then there is the added danger that anything written about them is out of date as it leaves the press . |
| 7 | In Robert Roberts 's farming family this seems to have been the accepted practice on both sides : later on , as a young farm servant , he went to work for an uncle where his mother 's parents still lived in the farmhouse . |
| 8 | On the day of the overdose Charles and Ann had a row before he went to work , and later Charles came home to find his wife had left him . |
| 9 | The next day he went to work , but found he could not concentrate and returned home without telling anyone . |
| 10 | Then off he went to work in the factory till 6 p.m. once more . |
| 11 | Zoology graduate Nick Coad left the debt when he went to work in the Omo forest three months ago . |
| 12 | The second suspect was a resident of Consett , but on the night in question his wife had given birth to their first child , and the doctor and the midwife both vouched for the fact that the man had never left the house after he came in from work at half-past five until he went to work the next morning , an hour after he had heard his son first cry . |
| 13 | This is expected to be particularly revealing as Mr Camber , a curator at the British Museum before he went to work for Sotheby 's , heard about the hoard from an ex-colleague and became involved in negotiations over it in Switzerland some time before Lord Northampton , presenting himself as the single owner of the treasure , first approached Sotheby 's in 1988 with a view to selling . |
| 14 | His neighbour always wore grey overalls when he went to work . |
| 15 | And for soon after that me father had to give up the mine be because of his health and he went to work at the depot er were the bus depot and he worked in the battery house where they made all the batteries up , charged the batteries for the buses , looked after the electrical side there was electrician , he were n't , me father were n't electrician but he was working with electrician but his main job was charging the batteries , putting them on in groups in the , in the er battery house and charging house , to keep all the batteries charged up for all the buses petrol buses tr and trolley buses . |
| 16 | He kept dropping off in their presence because he went to work at three every morning . |
| 17 | Rooting out the cleaning kit for it , he went to work thoughtfully , the letter all but forgotten . |
| 18 | When he went to work that evening Tod left the letters by the front step , encased in a white shoebox on which someone — presumably Irene — had scrawled the words The Hell With You . |
| 19 | He went to Eton where he began a lifelong interest in hunting by becoming Master of the Beagles After completing his education he went to work in the family 's Chicago businesses , but the call of the land which ran strongly in his blood , proved too much He went farming in Texas , but returned to England in 1908 and bought Morris Grange , with four farms , at Scotch Corner — a few miles from Lartington . |
| 20 | He went to work for the Gas Light & Coke Company at Beckton in 1908 but he soon chafed at not being given the free rein to which he had become accustomed at Davis Bros . |
| 21 | His first recorded appearance is at Longleat House , Wiltshire , where he went to work for Sir John Thynne [ q.v. ] as a master mason in March 1568 . |
| 22 | At sixteen he went to work for his uncle , a London wine merchant , but by 1810 was established as a confectioner in Marylebone . |
| 23 | In 1892 he went to work in the Great Western Railway works in Swindon , principally as a hammer-man , remaining there until 1914 . |
| 24 | Leaving school at fifteen , he went to work as a clerk at the Grassmarket , Edinburgh , branch of the City of Glasgow Bank . |
| 25 | From what I 've heard he 's come up in the world since he went to work for Christian Timms . |
| 26 | Legal proceedings were opened against various mayors including the reformist mayor of Dresden , Wolfgang Berghofer , although Berghofer himself was not personally suspected of election manipulation ( in May he went to work for the office planning and construction company Häussler in Stuttgart ) . |
| 27 | I was always worried when he went to work , but y you do n't think your husband 's going to go to work in the morning at five o'clock and never come home again . |
| 28 | Later that year he went to work in Canada , but on his return , in |
| 29 | In 1939 he went to work in the shipyards and did not leave until 1947 . |
| 30 | There were punks and Sikhs and he went to work with a postman who was not a man at all , but a woman . |