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Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] went [prep] " in BNC.

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1	After that everyone went to bed , but nobody slept .
2	Then on June 15th I went to John 's from work and was told Clare had had an accident , but he could n't tell me how serious .
3	After that I went to bed ; I suppose it would be around midnight . ’
4	And then after that I went to a public school but er to those years er I just followed the pattern .
5	After that I went off music for a while .
6	And with this she went into the scullery , Mick following her .
7	Twice weekly she went to Bath to meet Edward , though ever afterwards he made sure she was on the last bus home .
8	Early in the 1890s she went to work under Mrs Hugh Price Hughes at the West London Mission .
9	Some who went to the surgery thought that Daisy looked like an animal herself , moving sometimes like a slow marmalade cat , other times like a bustling sheep dog-for she was a woman of moods — and seeming to combine the best and worst qualities of each .
10	Yet another who went into a Scoops ( now Staks ) Reject China Shop described the stock in less than enthusiastic terms , although this was doubtless sour grapes over the sluggishness of the share price at the time — contrary to what his dealer had led him to expect .
11	For everyone who lost his faith , there must have been at least another who went to outcast London or to darkest Africa to convert the faint and hungry heathen ; there was a great deal of Christian confidence , and not simply a Church in retreat before agnostic scientists .
12	In 1876 she went to Girton College where she gained third-class honours in the mathematical tripos in 1880 , and showed her flair for experimentation and designing scientific instruments .
13	I suppose a guitar is only as good as the number of styles you can successfully impose upon it , and this one went through the card without a problem .
14	After this they went on board the several ships in that harbour and struck their yards in order to prevent them from proceeding to sea .
15	In this they went beyond the goals set by Zambia or Zimbabwe .
16	Ewood Park is a lucky ground for them and in the first half they went for Blackburn with all guns blazing .
17	In 1985 they went to Australia , New Zealand and the Far East .
18	In April nineteen thirty-nine they went to the quay at Southampton to see them off on a three months ’ visit to the United States and Canada … ’
19	In 1895 he went to the new colony of Rhodesia and became a trooper in the Matabeleland regiment of the British South Africa Police .
20	When Rameshwar read this he went to Tukaram and praised his greatness and goodness .
21	At the age of 12 he went on holiday to Butlins in Ayr with his parents and had his first taste of competitive success .
22	After struggling free he went to nearby Bassetlaw Hospital where doctors closed the quarter-inch deep gash .
23	In January 1867 he went to the Paris exhibition as horticultural correspondent for that weekly , as well as the Field and The Times , and started to write his first two books , Gleanings from French Gardens ( 1868 ) and The Parks , Promenades and Gardens of Paris ( 1869 ) .
24	But Mark bounced back and in 1983–4 he went on an expedition in search of the head-hunting tribes of Indonesia , the Orang-hutan .
25	In 1903 he went to Merton College , Oxford , as one of the first Rhodes scholars and in 1906 he gained a second-class degree in modern history .
26	I was so relieved I went to bed for two days .
27	In 1979 I went to the English Schools Championships for the first time , to run in the 200 metres for London .
28	During 1979 I went to Taylor House for a holiday .
29	But nineteen thirteen I went to this examination and it was called a Labour Examination , and if you were able to pass this examination you could leave school at thirteen .
30	From 1958 to 1963 I went through various initiation rites , learned the values of the institution , and underwent the training all new constables were then required to follow .