Example sentences of "[pron] went [prep] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being the only girl in a family of seven was bad enough but there were no other girls anywhere near my age in our local area either , though of course I went to an all-girl convent school . |
| 2 | And maybe because I went to an all girls ' school , it 's not so obvious , you do n't see girls and boys walking hand in hand in the playground . |
| 3 | But I always spoke English with Mum , and I went to an English school in Athens . |
| 4 | Cos I tell you what I have got cos I went to an Indian reservation and I 've got a small carving which an Indian did for |
| 5 | So I went with an open mind . |
| 6 | I went on an introductory course with ParAvion in Wiltshire to find out if I liked paragliding any better . |
| 7 | It was the visitors who went into an early lead when Plumb took advantage of a defensive error to slip the ball past Gribben in the 20th minute . |
| 8 | Perhaps it was because she went to an early Mass to have breakfast ready for them when they returned ; but she did n't like lying in bed in the mornings anyway , and as he had said many times ( admittedly without great enthusiasm ) they could quite easily go to Mass together , and wait a lit–de longer for breakfast . |
| 9 | Her cruel circumstances conspired to put her into a remand home at 14 — and from there she went to an adolescent unit , until the age of 17 . |
| 10 | During the vacation she went to an inter-varsity fellowship camp with a group of friends . |
| 11 | Well , for instance ; one night Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor who had called Stella II a skinny black bitch right in the middle of her rendition of ‘ Te Amo ’ , and he meant it , right there in the middle of his number — well Madame not only showed her approval of the assault by conspicuously buying Stella drinks every night for the whole of the following week ; as soon as she saw the fight starting she got off her stool , yanked out the plug on the sound system , hitched up that frock , got straight up on the stage while they were still on the floor ( she knew Stella would sort him out ) and she went into an unforgettable aria of abuse against this stranger which culminated in her eschewing all her usual magnificence of phrasing and just standing there shouting fuck off at him , screaming fuck off , if you do n't like it you can fuck off , E , X , I , T , there it is , you came in through it and now you can fuck off out of it , fuck off out of it why do n't you you stupid bastard ( and by now of course someone had dragged Stella off and we were all up on our chairs cheering while the disgraced stranger made his slow and humiliating exit through the parting crowd ) why do n't you just piss off and insult someone who does n't have the balls to answer back because you 've picked the wrong girls here darling , fuck off that 's it , fucking fuck off , fucking fuck off right through my front door and do n't you ever , do n't you ever , do n't you ever step on my fucking frock again . |
| 12 | He sorted out the beautiful Natasha when she went through an emotional crisis . |
| 13 | The pain increased and when he attempted to move his legs the right one went into an agonising cramp that caused his eyes and mouth to open simultaneously . |
| 14 | ‘ We went for an open systems solution because we wanted to build in flexibility for the future , ’ says ACCOUNTANCY 's Malcolm Cole . |
| 15 | The particular Friday night when the Yeti sealed my fate , we went to an end-of-run party for the school play , Doctor Faustus it was that year . |
| 16 | Several of them went to an acting class run by Jeff Corey , where other aspirants included James Coburn . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Yeah they went into an upbeat time did n't they ? |
| 19 | I 'm not sure if he went to an established rap school , although it 's more likely that he 's a self-taught man . |
| 20 | He went to an Indian fortune-teller and asked for advice . |
| 21 | ‘ He went to an all-night poker game last night . |
| 22 | Ray Beattie , Manager , Nantwich Branch fulfilled a life long ambition to visit Israel when he went on an eight-day tour of the country . |
| 23 | ‘ One moment , ’ Frau Nordern said , placing a well aimed dart between the Sergeant 's broad , grey-clad shoulders as he went into an inner office . |
| 24 | From there he went as an assistant solicitor to Tynemouth county borough council , returning to Bishop Auckland after the war to take over an old-established firm of solicitors which had belonged to Colonel Dowling and which later merged with Ernest Proud 's old practice . |
| 25 | and er he went in an old car a model A Ford , there 's a model T Ford on that one |
| 26 | It was not difficult , but most important , and we had to check and double check our work , and then it went to an official supervisor . |
| 27 | It went to an American collector at a hefty $2.3 million ( £1.53 million ) . |