Example sentences of "went in [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And when you wanted to buy something like a three piece suite , you went to somewhere like Bentalls and they took you into a little room , soon as you said to the man well I want to buy this on hire purchase and you went in to a little room and the man sat down and you filled in a long form .
2 I got my first into the sea close off Sliema and the second was on the way out some miles further out and he went in without a top wing .
3 ‘ I tried the bell at the front , ’ Pete said as they went in through a whitewashed scullery .
4 Four divisions , two of them Australian , went in on a limited front of about 4.5km/24mls , with 1,300 guns massed along the line between Klein Zillebeke and Westhoek .
5 The ideas for the story changed and Tony went in with a Mujahadeen espionage unit , though he uses the term lightly .
6 His father , however , preferred that Farrar went in for a professional career , and Farrar was articled to a firm of architects and surveyors in Northampton , becoming a Fellow of the Geographical Society .
7 Went in for a hot chocolate and that was it we did n't
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