Example sentences of "i went [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did then go about the task Mr Farraday had set me with some dedication ; I spent many hours working on the staff plan , and at least as many hours again thinking about it as I went about other duties or as I lay awake after retiring . |
| 2 | When I went to junior school it was half and half , white and Black kids ; the Black guys were really revered , and lots of the white boys would try to act Black , because they associated it with being hard or cool . |
| 3 | I mean luckily enough , I went to junior school with him . |
| 4 | I went to Gaelic matches in Dublin . |
| 5 | A couple of years later I went to primary school and came under the strict , disciplined regime that was usual in Jamaica in those days . |
| 6 | You and I went to ordinary grammar schools , Bob — but we do n't go round pretending to be classless . |
| 7 | My original career intention was to go into farm management and I went to agricultural college . |
| 8 | Now , I and I went to other day , I was having quite bad headaches from the back of my eyes , feeling like , you know , I had pressure there , and so , I think it was just headaches but I wanted to go and check it out , and I went to the , cos my dad said oh if you go to the opticians erm , they give you free checks as you 've got glaucoma in the family , and erm , or glaucoma , or whatever you call it . |
| 9 | ROBBIE What got me was when I went to other folks ' houses . |
| 10 | I did n't even know I had any kind of title until I went to prep school when I started to get these letters saying : ‘ The Honourable Charles ’ . |
| 11 | I was eight when I went to proper boarding school for the first time . |
| 12 | And then I went to British Legion to have a drink . |
| 13 | I went to CHRISTIAN SALVESEN PLC 's head office to see their Group P.R.O . |
| 14 | When I was studying I went to Open Air Theatre and I saw a version there on Christopher er what 's his name that chubby fellow with the glasses Christopher Biggins that 's it . |
| 15 | When I was studying I went to Open Air Theatre and I saw a version there on Christopher er what 's his name that chubby fellow with the glasses Christopher Biggins that 's it . |
| 16 | When I went to Bound Zoo I bought , this pencil , that 's twenty five p |
| 17 | Adam said in a stiff voice , ‘ I went to considerable trouble to choose the best place , so naturally it is n't cheap . |
| 18 | Another day we hired bikes and rode through the forests , seeing the Blue Lake and the Green Lake , and William and I went to Buried Village ( where we found a nice cafe with a superb carrot cake , for which I got the recipe ) . |
| 19 | So before my call-up I went to old Mr Grover in Darrowby and he painstakingly did all that was necessary . |
| 20 | ‘ When I went to old Abuelo Freitas , Maria told me that you sometimes worried too much about him — that you did n't understand that he only wanted to be left alone . |
| 21 | Arthur and I went for long walks — and that little village was the best place in the world . |
| 22 | Again the one who 's been around ( you can tell her type a mile off — they always find something to send back , even if it 's the salt ) ordered the better meal : a pan-fried fillet steak topped with tomato and served with a Madiera sauce , while I went for fresh halibut wrapped in vegetables surrounded by creamy mustard sauce . |
| 23 | As I went for vigorous afternoon walks along the footpath by the half-frozen river or across the frosty fields and up the sheep-tracks on to the hills and the bare moors beyond . |
| 24 | In early 1945 I went with U Kyaw Min to Ceylon to talk to British forces which were then thought to be waiting for a seaborne invasion of Burma . |
| 25 | Four times I went on long visits to the St Jerome , his finest work . |
| 26 | So I went into Irish pubs . |
| 27 | I went into New Look and they had some lovely things in there this morning ! |
| 28 | From 1958 to 1963 I went through various initiation rites , learned the values of the institution , and underwent the training all new constables were then required to follow . |
| 29 | I went through everyday life merely marking time until I could leave Ireland for Britain to become the real me . |
| 30 | ‘ Suddenly I went from ex-public schoolboy to illegal immigrant and when I did re-apply I was refused and told to get out . ’ |