Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [conj] [pron] went [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But I mean if you count how many people were there when I went to mass when it was a holy day .
2 On my honeymoon , we were there and we went to Les Deux Soeurs : run by two sisters ?
3 It was only after he went into hospital that I started spending much time with him , because we knew his illness would run a rapid course .
4 Yeah , the sort of thing Lucy and I were talking about earlier is , it was just before I went on holiday so my memory is kind of hazy , it 's one where I was going to see the Arts Council and see if they were interested in the idea if they work
5 You know what it was like when we went to Tescos .
6 It was then that I went to school for the first time , to a Roman Catholic convent in Ealing , not because of my parents ' religious beliefs but because it was thought to be educationally superior to any of the state-run schools in the locality .
7 Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ?
8 He was there when I went across the yard yesterday .
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