Example sentences of "[adv] went [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 2 | You know he only went to he only went for a pee you know what I mean that cramming five pound and ten pound deals at him , and he 's going , No you can , you know . |
| 3 | This man , who told Huy that he only went to the place to drink , never having had a problem when it came to finding a girl , was looking urgently for somebody to work on his paperbeating team as one of his men had died suddenly from river fever . |
| 4 | That only went to the |
| 5 | Well we 've we only went to the if you like the training session of the er erm participants yesterday and we 've got our next meeting on the 22nd February that I 've invited you to at . |
| 6 | But if you only went on the square foot it do n't matter how big it was well that 's like , surely that 'd be fairer ? |
| 7 | Men who only went into a shop for ‘ baccy ’ , matches or a paper , were sent round to the local grocer 's and butcher 's shops to buy up everything that was n't nailed down . |
| 8 | I only went into the place twenty minutes ago . ’ |
| 9 | he only went about a week and then he closed . |
| 10 | Mind yer , we only went in the cheapest seats . |
| 11 | No I did n't , I only went in the hall for that paper . |
| 12 | James IV , idealistic and militaristic , ‘ first and foremost a warrior ’ as Dr Norman Macdougall has described him , spent at least £100,000 Scots ( rather more than three years ' income ) on artillery and even more on his navy ; £30,000 alone went on the building of the huge and spectacular Great Michael , a ship so impressive that it was promptly copied by Henry VIII , whose Henri Grace a Dieu was built virtually to the same specifications in 1512 , a year after the Michael 's completion . |
| 13 | He turned up at the dance studio in a pair of very skimpy tight shorts and observing that everyone else was very white and wore towelling track suits , and seeing that he was very tall and very naked , got nervous so went for a walk and smoked a joint . |
| 14 | Many of the new firms that started were under-capitalised and so went to the wall , but the net number has increased by many hundreds of thousands since 1979 . |
| 15 | So went in the car park , turned back took the first er er , er well I did a right then |
| 16 | Its programme necessarily went beyond the question of Palestine or the recovery of the Golan Heights , to the fulfilment of its regional ambitions . |
| 17 | Then Clare took her by the elbow and led her along the path which suddenly went through a gate and stopped . |
| 18 | Raising myself on one hand to peer over the ditch before clambering out onto the road , my hand and forearm suddenly went through the soft earth up to the elbow . |
| 19 | First of all , they viewed the Marischal College , and at one o'clock went to the Town House , or Town Hall , where the magistrates waited to honour their distinguished visitor . |
| 20 | Though the Act of 1547 provided that the surrendered endowments of the remaining 2,374 chantries be applied to public and charitable purposes nationally , much of it merely went into the pockets of Edward VI 's advisers . |
| 21 | Mark 's smile did not reveal that Faustina naturally went on the beds as well as in the lounge . |
| 22 | She 'd pointed out that it was stupid to talk about Tupperware parties as a means of raising funds since funds raised at Tupperware parties naturally went to the manufacturers of Tupperware . |
| 23 | Since then they had come into contact over one or two smaller matters , and it was to him that Greg naturally went in the aftermath of Hilda Machin 's death . |
| 24 | As a young actor you obviously went for a great deal of variety in characters and accents . |
| 25 | Considerable thought obviously went into the preparation of the recommendations , and clinics opened or planned since that time have largely followed the guidelines . |
| 26 | Nigel meanwhile went for the beer . |
| 27 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 28 | When she finally went to the family planning clinic , the woman she saw was not very sympathetic , she said " What school do you go to ? " and when I told her she said " You 've really thrown away your chances . " " |
| 29 | When I finally went for the ( pregnancy ) test , I thought , this is it , this is the point where I go on the Pill . |
| 30 | He felt very sorry for himself , and finally went into a pub to find comfort in gin-and-water . |