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Example sentences of "[noun sg] went [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1	Fabia was still in stunned surprise that her Volkswagen Polo was going to be towed by a Mercedes when the stranger went to the rear of her car and she had to snap out of her shock to steer .
2	After the 1987 election , Labour went through a contorted ‘ consultation ’ to find out what it should think .
3	of inward investment went to the west midlands .
4	Most of the leading Conservatives who might have hoped to succeed him were disqualified as supporters of the Lloyd George Coalition , and the succession went to the relatively unknown Chancellor of the Exchequer , Stanley Baldwin .
5	Three gold , five silver and a bronze was the final count from a dry run Commonwealth Games tournament in which the best boxer award , plus a magnificent trophy went to the tall 20-year-old Woodvale lad , Stephen Kirk .
6	On 12 November the programme went on the air .
7	The buyer 's carrier went to the cold store with a delivery order .
8	My seat went through a large 16in thicknesser , but if you do not have access to one , do n't worry .
9	Mr Taylor said it was difficult to say why the seat went to the Liberal Democrats .
10	Second prize of a 21 piece tea-set went to Neil Powell from the sliphouse , and the third prize of an 18 piece tea seat went to the cup shop 's Tracey Bowan .
11	The remaining seat went to the Democratic Opposition Coalition , which won 5.23 per cent of the vote ; a fourth party , the Christian Democratic Front , won 1.5 per cent of the vote .
12	this advert went on the back of it .
13	Both the Express and the Mail went into the 1970s with an ageing readership , for they failed to replace their old readers with young new ones in the same numbers .
14	In the first round of voting 19 of the 28 seats were decided , with the remainder going to a second round ; 82 per cent of the 8,592-strong electorate went to the polls ( most of Andorra 's population of 60,000 being foreigners and not entitled to vote ) .
15	The wheel went through a whole revolution before Gazzer spoke again .
16	Six months of research went into the changes and Trevor emerged as a person who was respected , carried weight and authority and who was liked and trusted .
17	Perhaps my father would not be so proud after all , she reflected , and sat in silence until the wedding carriage went under the high stone archway and into the blue-tiled courtyard of the Quinta de Santo António .
18	The actress went through the ordeal when she was just six years old .
19	was a bottle of of whisky from that distillery went for a huge p price at one of the big
20	And it was an old woman was sitting knitting in when her wool went through a hole in the floor .
21	A TOT was fighting for his life last night after a 999 ambulance went through a red light and smashed into his gran 's car .
22	In the end the European side went into the 12 singles matches with a two point lead ( 9-7 ) but only after two Yorkshiremen had produced a rearguard action at the end of the day which even General Custer would have been proud of .
23	THREE years ago Olivia Goldsmith went through an ugly , painful and expensive divorce .
24	No , darling , mummy went at the weekend .
25	Mummy went to a real job
26	Shares in these banks rocketed , and the value of their stock went through the ceiling — in one case by 154 per cent7 .
27	The potential we could receive here , erm the kind of people who live here , the numbers of people who live here now and in the future , the types of housing and housing again , in the future and all in all a g a great deal of study went into the area .
28	One day he hit a police car , and the police car went into the river !
29	‘ And on Saturday afternoon when the car went into the Broad , where were you , Miss Tilley ? ’
30	Except in winter , when heavy snow sometimes delayed us and another engine had to come to the rescue , we generally arrived on time at Parma. just occasionally a tram car went off the rails ; perhaps Camera was overcome by the thrill of speed .