Example sentences of "went [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lions went badly off course after compiling a 24–0 half-time lead against second division opposition and captain Gavin Hastings said : ‘ It was very frustrating . |
| 2 | IN her article on car recycling , Liz Moore claimed that in the Eighties , scapped cars went eventually to landfill sites . |
| 3 | I mean Adam 's lucky in that respect , I could n't smoke when I was pregnant , I , it made me feel sick , I could n't stand the smell of it , I had no urge to smoke at all , I went right off smoking , I respect , I was lucky , but I do feel sorry for these people that smoking at present cos it must be ever so hard . |
| 4 | The cab driver went right on whistling . |
| 5 | You took everything in your stride — walking up Henry Street , a bucket of water went right in front of me . |
| 6 | After all the drama of ‘ 68 , de Gaulle , of course , simply went querulously into retirement in 1969 after the students had gone back to their studies and the French electorate felt it was safe to dispense with his services . |
| 7 | They were entitled to eat after the last sitting in the central dining car , Emil said , rinsing glasses , but usually they went only for dinner , if then ; I could see why , as after the sandwiches on that first day we ate the all-too-few left-over portions of the Lucullan lunch we had served . |
| 8 | He avoided travelling , and if he had to fly , he went only on charter flights , for fear that on a scheduled airline his name would show up on computers that could be tapped by Iran Air officials . |
| 9 | As Faraday went deeper into electromagnetism , he began to leave his contemporaries behind ; his work was on the boundary between inductive experimental science and deductive physics , and failed to fit easily into either category . |
| 10 | They went swiftly into operation , scrambling for seats on planes and pillows in resorts , while shops reordered from importers as their stocks of ski equipment sold out . |
| 11 | But cold reality was but a split second away , and Leith went swiftly from dream world to fury that he should involve her in this sham . |
| 12 | So he said , But any road , before I go , he said er and my first nineteen twenty nine this was , and we went together on holiday , on the Continent which was unheard of , you know for working class people , but we went in nineteen twenty nine . |
| 13 | Phipps 's latest conquest — he rarely went long without excitement — had been the childless and bored Mrs Venables , whose cake was the last he 'd tasted , and whose husband was the local chemist . |
| 14 | We went all over town , looked at rock stars and actors , but Val just had it from day one . |
| 15 | This is the pencil that his kindergarten teacher possessed ; the pencil that made the blue ticks and the red crosses in the register ; the pencil that he wept for , that his mother went all over town to find , and failed to find , because they were all gone , or not made any more , or kept for teachers , or only imagined ; the pencil which he knew would make him happy , if only he possessed it , for evermore . |
| 16 | When laid off , the linesman went elsewhere in desperation , thus causing Edinburgh men 's reputation for accepting low rates . |
| 17 | On that note he left the room , descended the staircase , handed the identification form to the guard , went outside with Warden to his unmarked parked car . |
| 18 | She went outside in search of Sam . |
| 19 | We went out to lunch to er Tesco 's we got to pick Christopher up from school and we went just for lunch time , that was quite nice |
| 20 | You went just after Christmas you went through a very very bad patch did n't you ? |
| 21 | from her , training that er Princess Marina , and said oh this is Joy and this is Jenny and er , she 's done well and when I came away Jenny went just in front of me into Sue who works for me Sue she 's , she 's the , the area , the area manager |
| 22 | I got Jake to lie , and say I went away on holiday earlier than I did . ’ |
| 23 | Her parents ran a smallholding which they combined with a facility for boarding dogs while their owners went away on holiday . |
| 24 | Yep , yep erm these officers are all trained in , in fire prevention work erm at the Fire Service 's technical college at Morton Marsh , and er they practise those skills they learn there over many years erm I 'm looking back , I mean the time that I spent in training schools and er and in , in the job er I suppose when you total it all up it must be two or three years away from home really , er in courses you know , in my day we went away on fire prevention training classes six months , six months ' course was the , so you went away to the Fire Service college which in those days was at Dorking , a lovely place in Dorking , and you did six months there solid , and then nowadays about thirteen weeks , the courses run about thirteen weeks , and you are constantly fire , fire officers from the ranks of erm probably a Sub Officer , leading fireman in some places , but Sub Officer onwards and particularly Station Officer up to the more senior ranks are away on courses regularly for , it 's really updating people erm new legislation coming in , new techniques coming in , erm which have to be these people have to be updated so they are very well trained , erm more so than most local authority people I would think , fire , fire officers are , erm purely because the job is such a wide range of , of things to deal with . |
| 25 | I went away to university and made some new friends , and John and I finished . |
| 26 | No you don't. because er I naturally I went away to work but er I was born here and er you see and , and wh what else did you want ? |
| 27 | Only I went away to work then aye and er was n't coming home very often . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , it hit the upright and went away to safety . |
| 29 | The uncles and aunts presumably knew but Stephen himself had n't heard a word of him since he went away to college in London when he was eighteen . |
| 30 | The experience of working with gifted teachers and heads in their early career , the sense that they have in some cases been given the benefit of working closely with other wise and successful teachers — particularly inside a religious order — the fact that they in some cases went away from teaching and , having had time to reflect in quite unrelated work , then saw that teaching was an obligation which they should meet — these are among the backgrounds which heads are prepared to reveal . |