Example sentences of "[conj] they went into " in BNC.

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1 the than they went into Afghanistan
2 It used to be a popular theory that death-feigning animals were somehow self-hypnotised , or that they were thrown into such an acute state of shock by their tormentors that they went into an unconscious , cataleptic state , as though from a fit or seizure .
3 He says that they went into the deal with their eyes open , there is no way the council treated them unfairly .
4 You see the only way that you can really discipline them is when you have a school where the rules have been very , very strict from the moment that they went into that school and they have had their noses held to the grindstone with work up to their brows and they just do n't think of being tiresome and anybody who is tiresome is pulled out and put in a special room on their own , called a sin bin an which is rather boring and made to work even harder !
5 Thereafter rain restricted them to one-day games and half of a four-day game , so they went into the first Test in Trinidad very under-prepared .
6 He was carrying a huge bundle of papers and did n't want to walk far , so they went into the Arab cafe beside the Post Office .
7 She slipped her arm through her sister 's , and they went into the dining-room , where a small fire was burning .
8 They went to the hotel , where Filmer and the other owners from the train are staying , and they went into the bar for a drink .
9 Mr Hill : Yes , now , during the war most men between 19 and 38 got called up and they went into the army , navy , airforce and fire-brigade or they had been drafted into factories to make tanks , aeroplanes and munitions so some things , areas , like farming were very short of labour .
10 He said something to the Vicomte and they went into Christine Daaé 's dressing-room … ‘
11 However , Albert got over that , and so did Jim , and they went into the sitting-room , where Bella was sitting in mini-gear frighteningly too young for her , with office folders on her lap .
12 I 'd read about , I read erm read in erm some paper or other not so very long ago , about erm a funeral and the that was going along the road of course , and they came to a to a erm hotel and they were och , they were going for miles and miles and miles and they went into this hotel and the they party the funeral party went into the hotel and had a good few drinks and they were well away when they came out and they they they went away without the coffin , for two miles , two miles before they discovered that they did n't have the coffin .
13 He said , ‘ Deal , ’ and they went into the library .
14 She kept away from the rue de Rivoli and they went into a café near the port .
15 The door in the high wall was open and they went into the garden .
16 ‘ You can tell me all about this while you pour me a drink , ’ he said quietly and they went into the kitchen .
17 Corbett gave a child a penny to hold the horses and they went into the priest 's house .
18 He wanted to speak , to say anything so as not to seem sullen or graceless , but there was nothing ; and they went into the restaurant stiffly , not looking at each other .
19 Later-several whiskies later — Hamilton did emerge , and they went into a private office to talk .
20 While they went into the firing blackboards to fire your rounds and you , all you was allowed to fire was five five and then you had to wait , take your turn course everybody had got to go in , they 'd got to check them as everybody got had fired their five there were n't one left up the spout like there was before , course it took time see , and it took us a day , I would say a day , to fire five rounds of ammunition .
21 This time around , Chadwick 's approach to recording the album was to spend as much time as possible rehearsing and re-rehearsing the songs before they went into the studio .
22 This was not done , but the arms and title were obliterated before they went into service .
23 He did n't know how high a temperature they could take before they went into shut-down , and he supposed he would n't get a chance to record his findings if he did pursue the experiment to the end .
24 However , when they went into the field to try him , he was vicious and unmanageable ; and reared up when anyone endeavoured to mount him .
25 Eva tolerated them since they paid for Dad 's thoughts and therefore her dinner , but when they went into the bedroom to chant I heard her say to Dad , as she put on her yellow silk blouse for that brilliant evening , ‘ The future should n't contain too much of the past . ’
26 When they went into the dining room , Stephen 's mother joined them .
27 When they went into his house , ‘ where their best entertainment was his quiet company ‘ , his wife continually interrupted their conversation by busying him with domestic duties .
28 Search consultants are often called in when an organisation is considering going into a new business sector , as Marks & Spencer did when they went into financial services with their credit card ; as when BP were trying to diversify their business and spot winners by developing new technology ; as financial services institutions do when they wish to launch a new product or enter new markets .
29 This was taken by him and his sons as a sacred treasure when they went into Egypt .
30 When they went into their bedroom at night , cold air came up from the polished linoleum like air off an ice rink .
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