Example sentences of "[pron] went [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I went to the Royal Courts of Justice , the judge knew what he was going to give me , and I got three years ' probation , on condition that I stay at the hostel for a year and that I attend a day centre . |
| 2 | In 1979 I went to the English Schools Championships for the first time , to run in the 200 metres for London . |
| 3 | Putting on my best bedside manner , I went to the cheerful locals . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought I went for the Amazonian types , ’ he commented , ladling some of the food on to his plate warily . |
| 5 | Dr Russell insisted that I went with the convalescent men and we were lucky to pick up one of the last trains to go northwards . |
| 6 | Patiently , I went through the same arguments that I 'd used with Mazzin himself , emphasizing that we did n't want any trouble but would n't tolerate abuse , and that we felt Islamic Jihad did n't want to cause us unnecessary distress . |
| 7 | ‘ Here , give over , ’ said Dolly , ‘ I do n't need no scrubbin' brush , I went in the public baths two weeks ago . |
| 8 | And I wanted a particular tape , oh I know it was a tape I 'd heard a coach driver using on the er on a coach trip that I was on so I got to know what it was erm and er I went round the usual shops no joy |
| 9 | As I went round the various sections of work I was so impressed with the students ' enthusiasm and the very high quality of their work . |
| 10 | What kind of strength might they have if they harnessed the determination and cunning which went into the anti-bond protests , the bright and imaginative minds which contribute to fanzines and the patience and good humour shown when visiting supporters are ordered to stand in the rain for half an hour after the final whistle ? |
| 11 | In the first place , he believed that Marx had bequeathed a method of analysing the social process which was scientific , which went to the very roots of reality . |
| 12 | This had obvious implications for methodology which went beyond the simpler objectives of transferring information from teacher to student . |
| 13 | BROUGH PARK is buzzing about the trial time of newcomer Jerpoint Randy , which went round the 500 metres trip in 30.44 secs . |
| 14 | I wonder if you went to the industrial companies , and said look , have you got a a , a , a big lot of something and |
| 15 | You went to the Cooperative halls for everything , like that when we were young . |
| 16 | ‘ Down at Atholl , when you went for the new blades , ’ his wife answered from beside the fireplace . |
| 17 | A few groups of migrants , notably among Germans and Scandinavians , who went to the Great Lakes area of the United States , or the earlier Scots settlers in Canada , exchanged a poor agricultural milieu for a better one : only 10 per cent of the foreign immigrants in the United States in 1880 were in agriculture , mostly not as farmers ‘ possibly ’ , as an observer claimed ‘ on account of the capital required to purchase and stock a farm ’ , ’ the equipment of which alone was reckoned to cost $900 in the early 1870s . |
| 18 | Anyone who went to the tall ships race in Belfast and saw 500,000 people thronging through the city centre day after day could see the determination of the people of Belfast to lead their lives normally . |
| 19 | Henry VII , despite his notorious parsimony , gave rewards to those who went to the new lands , and voyages continued , at least sporadically , until the end of his reign . |
| 20 | Here was a fellow human , Canadian , and Montrealer who went to the same movies and read the same papers as you or I. 1 . ) |
| 21 | As she went up the narrow stairs , Jennifer 's heart was beating . |
| 22 | She went to the public baths every day and swam twenty lengths after work . |
| 23 | She went down the concrete steps . |
| 24 | One live pigeon , sitting on the wall … up she went between the dark cliffs , clap clap clap clap … |
| 25 | She went through the remaining months of her pregnancy in a turmoil of doubt , anxiety and frustration . |
| 26 | We went with the sixth formers las last summer we went to see The Tempest and it 's such a beautiful place you know , it 's you 're outdoors but it 's quite weird the way they do it , because you 're like in a canopy but the actual stage it outdoors , so you 're covered but you get a bit cold and you need to take woollies and things , it can get a bit cold out there , but it should be nice in the summer . |
| 27 | So the appropriate documents we went to the Croatian Customs who stamped our papers and insisted on giving us each a bottle of orange juice . |
| 28 | After our return from France we felt that we still did not have the complete story of that operation , and so we went to the Public Records Office at Kew to look up the records of 22 Squadron over that period . |
| 29 | Here we went to the British Airways Executive Aircraft desk and were taken out to the Moët et Chandon Executive Jet , which was waiting to fly us to Edinburgh . |
| 30 | When we went to the big competitions all the other schools in the area would be there , all the posh fee-paying schools and the church schools . |