Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] went [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My last weekend with the car I went over to the Island of Luing , leaving the car ( foot ferry only on Sundays ) at Cuan Ferry . |
| 2 | While he still had five fingers under his command he went back to the window and dropped Estabrook 's letter through , murmuring the address with a tongue that felt disfigured in his mouth . |
| 3 | When the distinguished writer Pavel Kohout recently returned from exile he went directly to The Slavia . |
| 4 | No matter which coach you went on in the old days ( and the Brightside and Carbrook Co-op ones were the best ) there was always a shilling sweep for the biggest fish and another shilling for the best roach . |
| 5 | When he reached the last machine he went back to the beginning and played them all again . |
| 6 | I took sips of my wine and carried on with the supper , and at one point I went across to the bookcase and idly picked up a petal that was lying there . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , ’ said Betty , but after a moment she went out to the stream leaving Lydia to sit back on her heels and wonder why she found dressing-gowns and slippers so tawdry . |
| 8 | They took a boat trip to see the seals , and in the evening they went back to the camp and lit a picnic-type disposable barbecue and ate burgers and sausages and fresh crunchy salad they had bought in Blakeney . |
| 9 | In 1915 at Gallipoli Doughty-Wylie won a posthumous VC : at a critical moment in the landing he went ashore from the River Clyde , rallied the remnants of a battalion of the Hampshires , captured the heights above the beach , and there he was killed . |
| 10 | The moment he went back into the house the gardeners would run out to eradicate the tracks left by his coming and going . |
| 11 | Another delay as the work train was slowly shunted along , and as there were no seats on the customer side of the counter in the tiny room he went out into the periodicals area . |
| 12 | On our way from Inverness to the west we went out of the train at the Muir of Ord of cattle-market fame . |
| 13 | After a little while I went on to the drum with Mr Stevens ’ brother , Sid ; and then I got a full man 's money , one and eightpence , a lot o' money to take home then . |
| 14 | We were four days in Piraeus and every day I went back to the Acropolis . |
| 15 | The other day I went back into the city to walk round some of my old haunts . |
| 16 | ‘ And as to how I found you — when you did n't answer the phone I went round to the flat . |
| 17 | The next day we went again to the Rovacchia but this time I insisted we should also go and see the crazy Englishman who had ridden the mule . |
| 18 | well we can do that we had some lovely spring , that day we went up to the park it was what spring like were n't it ? |
| 19 | Every day we went back to the garage ; and every day that car of ours was in sorrier shape . |
| 20 | Next day we went down to the Nene Valley Railway . |
| 21 | To avoid the heat of the day we went out in the mornings , waking while it was still dark . |
| 22 | That night we went back to the house . |
| 23 | The very next day he went back to the doctor to tell him what had happened . |
| 24 | The next day he went back to the factory and found out the time of the funeral . |
| 25 | ‘ Tuesday was the day he went off in the van and came back with a bruised face ; presumably you 've got a record of the people he called on that day ? |
| 26 | After a while he went out into the hall and I heard him pick up the thing that makes noises and which he talks into when there 's no-one here . |
| 27 | Last month I went back over the past 40 years of owning knitting machines and described some of the ways that I made sufficient money for the machines to pay for themselves . |
| 28 | In the morning I went ashore with the captain in a bumboat , passing a variety of small craft that plied to and fro across the straits . |
| 29 | One morning I went out into the garden to fetch some clothes from the washing line and walked past Gibeau , who was shooting sparrows with his assault rifle , as they fed on grain he had laid out for them . |
| 30 | After the game I went around to the dressingroom to try and meet the players . |