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

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1 Across the street , a woman walked out of Oz for Hair and went into Happy Days Health Foods .
2 Holmes and I left Baskerville Hall immediately after breakfast and went to the station at Newtown .
3 After a few more games we stopped for lunch and went over the morning 's action .
4 Come back through England and went to on the boat .
5 He paused , looked up the street past Armstrong and went into a crouch .
6 The chimpanzee scanned a tray of objects and went to a keyboard out of view of the tray and pressed a symbol corresponding to one of the objects .
7 At the beginning of September , he slipped out of Holyrood and went to Falkirk .
8 She hated that demonic air of self-assurance that went with him .
9 The habits of mind that went with the mayorazgo were not those of the ideal improving landlord of the Economic Societies , ‘ always occupied in the felicity of his village ’ .
10 If as much effort had been devoted to providing good levels of insulation as went into other recent advances in building practice , we would all now be living in highly energy-efficient homes , and paying much smaller heating bills .
11 Containing the first studio cut of ‘ No Woman No Cry ’ , versions of early Jamaicans singles ‘ Belly Full ’ , ‘ Bend Down Low ’ , ‘ Natty Dread ’ and ‘ Lively Up Yourself ’ , this is , superficially , a simple set of songs that went against the grain of the mesmeric dub that was then dominating reggae .
12 The years of research that went into preparing the Tests have ensured that they are accurate with all students from elementary level upwards .
13 ‘ The break-through made by Anisminic Ltd. v. Foreign Compensation Commission [ 1969 ] 2 A.C. 147 was that , as respects administrative tribunals and authorities , the old distinction between errors of law that went to jurisdiction and errors of law that did not , was for practical purposes abolished .
14 The strong forces between the particles would correspond to pieces of string that went between other bits of string , as in a spider 's web .
15 She hung her oilskin on the hook , left her muddy boots on a piece of newspaper and went into the living room .
16 And would this metal plate and the strip of metal that went round the top , would that be sort of like ready made .
17 As he ate and drank she found herself chattering away to him out of nervousness , a stream of things that went through her head , the small happenings of a day .
18 Against the woman 's express wishes , he lit a piece of paper and went into her bedroom anyway , and reported a ‘ bedstead of wood with heath [ heather ] upon it by way of a bed ; at the foot of which I saw some sort of blankets of covering rolled in a heap ’ .
19 The majority of people that went through that service all had some recollection of things they did n't enjoy very much but they by and large thoroughly enjoyed their experience in the Army , it livened them up , it made them better men and we have got after all one of the best armies if not the best army in the world , it 's got to come from
20 Thursday dawned as dully as the day before and Fabia got out of bed and went through the routine of getting showered and dressed and going down to breakfast with a total lack of enthusiasm or appetite .
21 When she pulled herself out of bed and went to the bathroom , instructing me not to look at the sketch , I got the chance to examine it .
22 Last night it cried like a little child , and I got out of bed and went to the window to listen .
23 And then I leapt out of bed and went to the window .
24 At a quarter to four by the little travelling clock at his bedside he got out of bed and went to the window .
25 Someone reading the latest work on the control of food intake , for example , might be puzzled at the amount of effort that went into understanding the effects of hypothalamic lesions on eating and at the theories that were erected around those experiments .
26 It has always been the law in this country — including under the previous Labour Government , even when the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent ( Mr. Foot ) held my office — that if people broke their contract of employment and went on strike , it was legitimate for them to be dismissed .
27 Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move , and now the flukey play is cramped and slow , a dream of constraint and cross-purpose , with each move forced , all pieces pinned and skewered and zugzwanged …
28 And feeling sick , and shaken , he placed the dead animal in a piece of sacking and went into the house .
29 Newspapers speculate that the 1lb of TNT that went off 25 minutes before the general arrived in his office was the next stage of this campaign .
30 In World War II he immediately joined the Ministry of Supply and went to the chemical defence experimental station in Porton , near Salisbury .
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