Example sentences of "[Wh pn] went [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the beginning of December 1939 , Fred Dunstan was one of the adults who went with the last group of children from the transit camp to ‘ Bydown ’ , not far from Barnstaple in North Devon . |
| 2 | The pictures were assembled during the 1900s by Sir John Leicester , a close friend of George IV who went on the Grand Tour but who , unlike many of his contemporaries , remained faithful to living British artists . |
| 3 | Roy Minnett ( left ) and Gervys Hazlitt , two Australian Test players who went on the pioneering tour of Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ) in 1914 |
| 4 | Everybody seemed to be praying ; except , of course , the children who went to the Ragged School and those who flooded The Courts at the back of the house and round about … |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Did you hear about the man who went to the fancy dress party as a bone ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Who went to the first home game in our promotion year ? |
| 10 | Here was a fellow human , Canadian , and Montrealer who went to the same movies and read the same papers as you or I. 1 . ) |
| 11 | The Second Son had returned to the coast with his father in order to fly to Doha to see a friend who went to the same university in England . |
| 12 | There she claimed that the boy , who went to the same school , raped her . |
| 13 | That was two strokes better than Davis , who went into the final round with a three-stroke advantage over his great county rival . |
| 14 | It was particularly frustrating for Bob Bridges who went into the last match on level points with Jones and caught over 40 fish — but still failed to weigh-in . |