Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] he went [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that he went to the pet shop which he despised but which occasionally sold him broken biscuits for William , cheap . |
| 2 | After that he went into a nursing home nearby . |
| 3 | After that he went from chamber to chamber , from corridor to corridor , looking for other canvases which might fit the verse from the Apocalypse . |
| 4 | At the age of eleven he went to London to work , eventually becoming a butcher employed by Thomas Pickworth , a staunch Calvinist . |
| 5 | At the age of 12 he went on holiday to Butlins in Ayr with his parents and had his first taste of competitive success . |
| 6 | In 1770 at the age of nineteen he went to Italy , and a volume of drawings of friezes , urns , and classical ornaments which he made in Rome is preserved in the Mellon Collection : he later told the diarist , Joseph Farington [ q.v. ] , that he had become well acquainted with Piranesi , and that while abroad he had kept a journal written in Italian but had subsequently destroyed it because he was embarrassed by its poor linguistic quality . |
| 7 | At the end of 1864 he went to Bombay to superintend a large land reclamation scheme adjacent to the harbour , which he did so successfully that in 1873 the government of India formed the Bombay Port Trust with Ormiston as chief engineer . |
| 8 | His adolescent distaste for Hitler was sharpened by the fact that his mother remarried to a Jew , and in 1934 he went into exile , first to France and then to England , where he settled . |
| 9 | So in 1948 he went to Australia on a government-sponsored scheme , known as " Big Brother " . |
| 10 | In 1755 he went to London to train as a mathematical instrument maker . |
| 11 | In 1980 he went on a Young England tour of West Indies . |
| 12 | But Mark bounced back and in 1983–4 he went on an expedition in search of the head-hunting tribes of Indonesia , the Orang-hutan . |
| 13 | In 1895 he went to the new colony of Rhodesia and became a trooper in the Matabeleland regiment of the British South Africa Police . |
| 14 | In 1903 he went to Merton College , Oxford , as one of the first Rhodes scholars and in 1906 he gained a second-class degree in modern history . |
| 15 | Early in 1250 he went on Eyre in some of the southern Forest counties . |
| 16 | In 1929 he went to Paris to work at the Pasteur Institute . |
| 17 | He advised the committee on imperial defence , was sent out to Petrograd as deputy to Viscount Milner [ q.v. ] at the Allied conference in 1917 , and in 1929 he went to Versailles for the committee of experts reviewing the Dawes plan for German reparations . |
| 18 | In 1929 he went to Ushaw College and in 1936 started as an assistant priest in St Cuthbert 's parish , West Hartlepool . |
| 19 | In 1929 he went into management with Lady Mary Wyndham [ q.v. ] and then on his own . |
| 20 | In 1892 he went to work in the Great Western Railway works in Swindon , principally as a hammer-man , remaining there until 1914 . |
| 21 | In 1874 he went to the Barrow Shipbuilding Co. as manager of the water-tube boiler department , becoming secretary in 1876 . |
| 22 | In 1894 he went to Oxford University as a non-collegiate student but ill health caused him to leave and he spent the year 1895 acting as tutor to an English family in Odessa . |
| 23 | Having barely attained his majority he was returned to the first Exclusion Parliament for Radnorshire , and , although knighted by Charles II in 1680 , threw himself with an almost desperate zeal into the cause of Exclusion , with the result that in 1683 he went into voluntary exile in Holland , suspected of complicity in the Rye House plot . |
| 24 | Following a few months at University College London , in 1932 he went to Emmanuel College , Cambridge , where he received a double first in the natural sciences tripos , 1934 and 1935 . |
| 25 | In 1920 he went to Cheltenham College and in 1925 to Queen 's College , Cambridge , to read English . |
| 26 | In 1859 he went to the brink of war with American troops over San Juan Island , despite his council 's urging restraint . |
| 27 | In 1836 he went into partnership with John D. Pountney to make pottery . |
| 28 | In 1870 he went to Rome , where the pianist Sgambati , a pupil of Liszt and a leading figure in the musical life of Rome , recognized his talent and encouraged him . |
| 29 | In 1870 he went to Manchester and became assistant first to J. C. Calvert and then to ( Sir ) Henry Roscoe [ q.v . ] . |
| 30 | When Lord Rosebery toured America in 1873 he went to Plymouth Church and was ‘ greatly disappointed ’ . |