Example sentences of "went [prep] [noun sg] and [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was stationed in an old chapel in Chuckery because the Americans once they 'd started they were putting them everywhere or anywhere they could just get to be with them before V Day they were even in little chapels , churches , outhouses anywhere they could possibly and there were guns and bits of trucks on every spot of land where they could get them the er , I 'm getting out of context I was just thinking about a tank , a First World War tank that they used to have those as well in the field gun in the er arboretum which were disappeared soon after the war they went for scrap and they came and they used , people used to have a lot of wrought iron railings as well they took those as well they came along with burners and went off to the war effort , but er like I say the Americans and of course as kids they were very generous with kids and we absolutely loved them . |
| 2 | I went into Diary and I printed out my appointments for next week . |
| 3 | When I saw the amount of entries I had to sift through , my gills went into overdrive and I hyperventilated . |
| 4 | Uncle Tommy , his only brother , used to tell me , in jocular fashion , that the only difference between Daddy and himself was that Daddy went into work and he ran away from it . |
| 5 | He , He went into hospital and they said erm that it 's the muscles of his heart that were affected they could n't do anything more for him ! |
| 6 | Well Tony , was who manager at the associated now , er he was very a very popular player , he was a goal scorer on one occasion , they played an away match at Swindon and he scored a goal and the goalkeeper got sent off a John so Tony went in goal and he saved a penalty later in the match , but he was a very popular player he was a a good goal scorer then there was Colin he , he had one of the hardest shots in the league you know , I 've , I 've seen the goalkeeper shrug his shoulders at , at defenders and say well how do you stop those , they used to call him Cannonball at one time , and er there was Tommy he had his collarbone broken and he never played again after , but he was a great centre forward he used to make a lot of space for the other forwards you know . |
| 7 | He went to church and I went to the Chapel , you see . |
| 8 | I 've been in digs where you went to bed and you 've had to put your top coat on the bed . |
| 9 | I took some yesterday , I was and I took some last night before I went to bed and I took two this morning . |
| 10 | Went to bed and I 'd got to bed and I 'd been there I do n't know how long |
| 11 | So I went to bed and I had to get up and get dressed and go and pick him up |
| 12 | The conversation carried on for half an hour and then they parted company as she went to work and he went off to his job . |
| 13 | Another would sometimes go back to work er if their son or dau well mainly the sons went to university and they needed the extra money for that . |
| 14 | We stayed friends even though he went to university and I did n't , even though he went off to Nineveh and Distant Ophir and I did n't , even though I went into the Bank and had a steady job while he flitted from one bit of temporary work to another and eventually ended up teaching English as a foreign language in a side street off the Edgware Road . |
| 15 | Then he turned away and went to sleep and I lay there and wept , feeling an absolute failure ’ . |
| 16 | Well I stuck it for a long time , Di went to sleep and I got out and I had a look and I , the only thing that I could see , and it was two o'clock , half past two this morning , er the er the one side of the big house over there was full of lights , they had all the lights on and there were two cars outside with their lights on . |
| 17 | I 've heard him say how he went to sea and he done two voyages . |
| 18 | he went to court and he says oh about Jane |
| 19 | And then he just never went to school and they maintained they 'd got a private . |
| 20 | Er , and I mean , as was conventional in those days , you educate , your sons went to school and you try and , educated your girls at home , but the , the aunt put her foot down and said she would n't do it . |
| 21 | He says I grew up here , I went to school and I want to stay in this area . |
| 22 | No it was during the conversation he er he said that I hear that you went to flat and I said yes and he said er well you just missed me , I 'd been there a couple of days before . |
| 23 | Then I went to prison and they made the baby a ward of court without telling me . |
| 24 | he gave me a before he went on holiday and he has n't come back . |
| 25 | She saw him in the wings just before she went on stage and she chose to ignore whatever had happened in the interval . |