Example sentences of "[conj] he went [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His first recorded appearance is at Longleat House , Wiltshire , where he went to work for Sir John Thynne [ q.v. ] as a master mason in March 1568 . |
| 2 | It is believed that this was Hadrian 's retreat , where he went to be quiet and enjoy his drawing , writing and music-making . |
| 3 | His parents are well-off farmers in Somerset , and although he went to the prestigious Ampleforth school , he spent only a year after taking his A levels at agricultural college before becoming a BMW car salesman . |
| 4 | Just as Jennie had been on the sidelines while his first wife was alive , Mary became his mistress almost immediately he went through his second marriage ceremony . |
| 5 | Though arrested in Denmark , Britain , France and Spain for narcotics and arms offences , al-Kassar had made himself too valuable an asset to European and American intelligence agencies for them to allow him to go to waste in prison , so that he went about his illegal business with a brazen assurance matched only among international criminals by his partner , Rifat Assad , younger brother of the Syrian president , who also owned a villa outside Marbella , and whose daughter , Raja , was al-Kassar 's mistress . |
| 6 | The thought appalled him so much that he went into the attic and slid back into bed without saying anything more to either of them . |
| 7 | ‘ The only reason I can imagine is — again , going back to the management and the bottom line — that he went into the Vegas thing . |
| 8 | She wrote that he went into the theatre as an ‘ unknown boy beatnik ’ , and came out ‘ mobbed by the crowd ’ . |
| 9 | The manager of the American Theater in Terre Haute , Indiana , stressed that he kept ‘ in direct touch ’ with his patrons and that he went into his audiences ‘ as the pictures were being shown on the screen to listen to their comments ’ . |
| 10 | Negotiations led to Angus being allowed to surrender unharmed on condition that he went into exile in England , while the Red Douglas possessions were declared forfeit . |
| 11 | Belfast 's European champion produced a quite stunning performance which totally belied his relative immaturity and made a mockery of the fact that he went into this fight with no world rating of any description . |
| 12 | Mark fell onto the road with such force that he went into a coma from which he never recovered . |
| 13 | It was to the Carlton as well as the Whip 's Office that Robert Sanders went to hear the news and discuss political events , and it was to the Carlton too that he went for recreation when the business of the House was too tedious to be borne any longer . |
| 14 | Oh well Bob had a mini bus that he went with and picked up the passengers . |
| 15 | with the little children that he went with last year died during the year she was a West Indian or something two lovely little children gone somewhere else to live with their aunt , . |
| 16 | All three write that he went on the pilgrimage in 822 , al-Makrizi saying that he had gone by way of Damascus , Ibn Hajar and al-Sayrafi possibly implying that he went from Jerusalem since they write that he " returned " there after the pilgrimage : the two versions are not , of course , mutually exclusive in any case , and the latter two authors may well mean no more than that he returned [ from the pilgrimage ] to Jerusalem . |
| 17 | For him it must be said that he went at once to report the death to authority , and then came back to us and again told the same story . |
| 18 | abashed and ashamed that he went to Travell , 7 yeares . |
| 19 | But we still do n't know much about the man himself apart from his age ( 59 ) , and that he went to Shrewsbury School at the same time as Michael Heseltine . |
| 20 | The fact is that he went to a race meeting at Silverstone in 1965 and decided right then and there that what he wanted most was to be a racing driver . |
| 21 | Jean-Marie Chantreux , 28 , smirked as he told a Normandy court that he went to the shipping company to steal . |
| 22 | He told Norwich Crown Court he became so de-pressed that he went to the girl 's Felixstowe home , cut himself with a knife and rubbed poison into the wound in a suicide bid . |
| 23 | I was sorry that he went to the West Riding after only two terms , although this made me stand on my own feet quickly , which was of itself of value . |
| 24 | To my fourteen-year-old mind , his cleanliness was connected in some mysterious way to the fact that he went to public school and liked classical music . |
| 25 | What is striking about it is that he is the first Anglo-Saxon king known to have abdicated to go to Rome and that he went to Rome not as a baptized Christian but to seek baptism . |
| 26 | You do n't mention him , except to say that he was a biologist and that he went to England to work for two years at the chemical weapons experimental establishment at Porton Down . |
| 27 | ‘ One more thing — Matthew Choak told me that he went to Penzance on Friday night to see the film , Straw Dogs . |
| 28 | ‘ The poor man was feeling so weak after the news that he went to Rolliver 's . |
| 29 | It was as a mere friend that he went to the private view of Vanessa 's second exhibition and met Rain Morgan . |
| 30 | At precisely what date he went is difficult to determine , for although Ibn Hajar states that he went to Egypt in 778/1376–7 , he follows this immediately with the statement whereas in fact Molla Fenari should have been twenty-seven years of age at that date according to the birthdate given by Ibn Hajar himself . |