Example sentences of "went [prep] [art] river " in BNC.

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1 We went along the river bank : two smugglers were being hanged near Billingsgate and this had attracted a large crowd to watch their last dance .
2 They went up the river together .
3 One day he hit a police car , and the police car went into the river !
4 He was dead when he went into the river — no trace of river water in the lungs .
5 ‘ We always wore trunks or pants when we went in the river , but just once , I stopped out to wash on one of the river beaches with nothing on , and went in just at the edge to rinse myself down .
6 Tell me , Abu : you went to the river together ? ’
7 ‘ You went to the river together ? ’
8 Yeah , she er we went to the river shore , you know the bridge near o on our part of the road and he were behind the trees and er I was wo wo , it were one of his sons who were with us , you know , Tommy and he was shouting
9 We went to the river in the car .
10 Sometimes I went on the river in boats full of noisy young men and their girlfriends .
11 On June 1st , in London , a black ship , the Terra Nova , went down the river Thames to the sea .
12 Before slack tide the police launch went down the river , stopping at every boat to give fair warning .
13 and we went down the River Nile which took three days
14 Part of the track which went over the river Wey was supported by a ferro-concrete bridge — revolutionary in its day .
15 The same anonymous writer who heard Spurgeon in 1884 went across the river to the City Temple but again was not complimentary : ‘ If you can forgive a bad delivery with occasional dropping of aspirates , and the incessant introduction of Gladstonian politics in connection with holy things , you will find in Dr Parker 's sermons much that is impressive and certainly a great deal that is novel . ’
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