Example sentences of "went [adv] [prep] [num] " in BNC.

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1 As they were phased out of first line units Londons went mostly to 4 Coastal Operational Training Unit , but a few passed to the Flying-Boat Training Squadron ( FBTS ) at Stranraer .
2 The new government decided it wanted its own paper and so bought the Mail , which became a bi-weekly in 1967 and went daily in 1969 .
3 Yes , her and I went together for seventeen year , before us got married . ’
4 Went solo in 1977 and had his first hit a year later with Fool If You Think It 's Over .
5 In return , she offered to look after my own birds when I went away for one weekend ( it was after the war but rationing was still in force , and most people who could , kept chickens ) .
6 Daphne recalls how , early on , ‘ I made the mistake of allowing one to become too fond of me and , when I went away for two weeks , she died of a broken heart .
7 Just before Christmas I moved jobs , and in the middle of January I went away for three days on a course .
8 A new industrial policy decree went further in 1988 , reflecting the growing opinion among Brazilian industrialists that some form of partnership with a foreign company was often the essential condition of attaining competitiveness abroad and even at home ( Fritsch and Franco , 1988 : pp. 82–4 ) .
9 Septimus Coffin went home at four-fifteen .
10 No , no , I come in the car , I was coming on the bus when I had this bloke next door doing some work like , I used to go out with him years ago , so he come in and had a cup of tea , I said , come in about half past eleven went home at one , he come
11 ‘ I went home at 9.30 , grey and scared .
12 She went home with two hundred and fifty pounds , knowing that the woman would sell those clothes for four times that much .
13 But the Soviet invaders went home in 1989 , and the communist government they left behind fell in 1992 .
14 To my utter surprise , Arune went home after one evenings viewing and produced the V-neck sweater with patterning that she had seen on the Video !
15 Pardons went also to 64 left-wing guerrillas , but not to Mario Firmenich , founder of the Peronist guerrilla group , Montoneros , who is serving 30 years for murder .
16 Eventually Mk I Londons in RAF service were returned to Saro for updating to Mk II standard , while a first production batch of six London IIs ( K5980-K5913 ) was delivered during 1936/1937 of which five went straight to 204 Squadron at Mount Batten .
17 All went well until 1985 , when museum purchase grants were frozen at the level at which they have remained , the reasoning being that for anything really important , they could go to the NHMF .
18 In January 1924 , when the house was nearing completion , she went twice in four days , first with her son ‘ Georgie ’ , the Duke of Kent , when they spent one and a half hours ‘ going over the beautiful miniature things ’ , as she records in her diary , and later with a friend when she ‘ arranged some of the rooms ’ .
19 Whilst there I was introduced to the nearby Cheshire Home and went there for five weeks .
20 Colette went there at 21 .
21 I went there about one o'clock .
22 When I went there in 1987 , after my journey to Auschwitz , it seemed somehow facile , an instrument of propaganda that used the horror of what happened in Auschwitz and Treblinka and all the other camps to justify not just the existence of Israel but all that Israel has done since .
23 ‘ I first went there in 1987 , travelling with Chris Butcher and Peter Williams to play for Transvaal B , ’ he explained .
24 With a group of other Australians , I first went there in 1973 , to see Graeme Langland 's Kangaroos take on the Lions before a much smaller crowd than honoured Ellery 's boys last year .
25 But there were certainly trolley buses when I went there in nineteen thirty one and trolley buses first came in in nineteen twenty three and it was all trolley buses by nineteen twenty six .
26 He went there in 1958 and his first posting was to a remote rural station in the north of the country .
27 The hapless pair parked their hired van outside the LA offices of BMG , their US distributors , went upstairs for two minutes , came back down and found their gear , money , their original '60s clothing and instruments had been nicked .
28 Nevertheless , the wedding went ahead with two hundred or more of their Hollywood friends attending .
29 Wrexham went ahead with two goals from Ron Barnes , Jimmy Blain and John Fielding levelling .
30 Estimates were sought to replace the refreshment counter and erm indeed we went ahead with one of the estimates and the firm then went bankrupt in the meantime which erm I imagine is something Colin that you 're well used to .
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