Example sentences of "[pron] went the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I know , I went the first night . |
| 2 | erm when I went the first year I looked at them . |
| 3 | Well after after after doing the clipping wagons on , I went the other end er cl er knocking clips off . |
| 4 | I always wanted to play the guitar , though , so I went the usual route : buy the guitar and play along to records . ’ |
| 5 | On May 6 Mother and I went the full complement of floors up to the very top of Telecom Tower , there to shake hands with Sir Dickie and to share a shuddering scaffolding ( I almost said erection — but I did n't ) with Michael Aspel , one of my all-time four minutes ' warning men . |
| 6 | I went the wrong way when I was twenty-one , and have never found the right path again . |
| 7 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 8 | The night I went the original leads , Darcey Bussell ( Princess Rose ) and Jonathon Cope ( her Prince ) , had already been rotated out of the cast in favour of Viviana Durante and Stuart Cassidy . |
| 9 | I went the next evening , and because for some reason |
| 10 | I have always said the people were right in what they asked ; but you went the wrong way to get it . ’ |
| 11 | Mm , they had to take it off and she went the other way then |
| 12 | She went the same day , they tell me . |
| 13 | She went the whole way now : ‘ He 'll pull the switch for the first television transmission to Danu , and that will also be the moment Danu is absorbed into the republic as the fifty-eighth province . |
| 14 | that one went the other night |
| 15 | And erm when Because we went the first day of our holidays , right away , to Deerness to my mother 's people . |
| 16 | I mean you 'll spend just what you wan na spend in Spain , I mean like we , the night , when we went the first time , we took an ice box , but oh , we |
| 17 | Oh we went erm we went the other week |
| 18 | If anything , we went the other way after erm how many children had Lady Macbeth , and we under-read . |
| 19 | If anything , we went the other way after erm ‘ How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth ? ’ and we under-read . |
| 20 | I can tell you that the further down the social scale we went the brighter and sweeter and richer the orange squash , and the more I loved it . |
| 21 | We went the wrong way , I suppose . |
| 22 | We went the wrong way to work with you , and were amply punished for our mistake . ’ |
| 23 | Off we went the next day and had nearly got to the shop when Dad spotted a relief officer . |
| 24 | Again when we went the last time they said that . |
| 25 | But here there was no statutory authority , and although there were several paths that seemed to lead to a solution , none of them went the whole way . |
| 26 | No no they went the other way I they were walking that way I was walking along the grass yeah . |
| 27 | They went the next morning . |
| 28 | Well yeah the wind fell but I 'm not really sure whether they went the next day or the day after that I ca n't remember . |
| 29 | By dusk Lynmouth had been reached , and next morning they went the short distance to the Valley of the Rocks , a strange and desolate dry valley running parallel to the coast and bordered by great castellated tors of rock . |
| 30 | They went the twenty seventh did n't they ? |