Example sentences of "we went [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … a Piece of flak must have hit the elevators as we went straight into a dive … ’ |
| 2 | Monte Casino where we went straight into the pub and Tony says three beer and hallo he said , alright mate ? |
| 3 | ‘ We went straight to the front . |
| 4 | There were around 80 boys from my school and we went straight to the mountains and settled into our base camp . |
| 5 | Professor Sir John Cadogan , chairman of the research council which advised the council on the allocations , said : ‘ We went straight to the heads of the institutions to ask them what were their best bets for boosting the numbers of their top-notch research ratings . |
| 6 | If you work on a seven point five figure , then you get up to twenty seven thousand four hundred and twenty seven hours , erm , before next year , erm , That would leave us with a difficulty I think , because if I were , if we went ahead with the idea of recruiting two people now er we would need to get rid of four of them by , oh four people all together , erm , by er the next financial year , which clearly is not terribly sensible . |
| 7 | ‘ We went right through the town centre and all the people doing their Saturday shopping stood and clapped and shouted messages of support as we went by . ’ |
| 8 | Yeah I left him one day , we went round to the pub I said do n't open that door there 's a match on fucking Ivy gets a phone call all the windows were put fucking in |
| 9 | We went round in the same circles for half an hour and I left feeling a mind-numbing frustration , far worse than anything induced by meetings with the Foreign Office . |
| 10 | Now on this occasion after " last orders " when Joe had got rid of everyone , save the remnants of my party , we went downstairs into the cellar and were enjoying pints drawn off by Mrs Joe when there was a great thundering on the door . |
| 11 | We went upstairs to the diningroom , turned the knob , took a deep breath and went in . |
| 12 | Then we went upstairs to the make-up room and Mr Wogan came to say a quick hello , which is his custom , I believe . |
| 13 | The next day we went again to the Rovacchia but this time I insisted we should also go and see the crazy Englishman who had ridden the mule . |
| 14 | On the rare occasions when we went away for a fortnight — to my grandfather 's dank cottage on the Welsh border , land of the slate grey sky — I could hardly wait to get back and listen to the two-weeks ' worth of messages crammed on my answering machine . |
| 15 | As we went away to the sounds of Mrs Otto 's profuse good-byes , I reflected on the nature of the relationship between her and Otto , almost the opposite to what one might have expected : the gallant captain going off to sea where his authority was absolute and his orders brooked no delay , and returning to a wife whom he clearly adored but where the roles were reversed . |
| 16 | Aunt Bedelia stayed to watch Brookside while we went over to the Jubilee Tower for the rest of the evening . |
| 17 | We went over to the other bed , the higher and wider one . |
| 18 | ‘ I know , 'cos one day when we went over to the dump , there was this old carton , and it said ‘ Florida Orange Juice ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Useful , ye see , ’ Ward said as we went through to the baggage claim area . |
| 20 | And erm and then we went and got my fruit and veg and then we went in Top Marks and got them so we never got we went through for a video really , never got round to looking for a video did we ? |
| 21 | I pulled up in a gateway , Sam jumped out and we went through into a field ; and as the beagle scampered over the glittering turf I stood in the warm sunshine amid the melting frost and looked back at the dark damp blanket which blotted out the low country but left this jewelled world above it . |
| 22 | really cos there 's such a cross section of conversation going on , it 's really funny there 's this bit in the car when we went outside with the mike and on a at Claire 's party and er erm like there 's me talking to Claire really loudly like across the car and Frank talking to Nigel across the front and he speakers were up here and there 's just a whaaaaaaa this massive rabble going on . |
| 23 | Having got over the bad luck at the 6th we went on to a 69 . |
| 24 | After a plaisent meal aboard the Britannia , we went on to a casino where we met Sonja , a gypsy from Montana . |
| 25 | Well , we really got on well together , and when the bell rang for the first round we went on to the first tee and an official is there to check out which clubs and what type of ball Butch is using . |
| 26 | We went on to the Rio Coatzacoalcos , and searched here for the Yellow Sword . |
| 27 | We went on to the target , all the same , and we not only bombed , but obtained a photograph of the aiming point at the moment of bombing . |
| 28 | We went on to the marshes with the soldiers and found the escaped convicts fighting each other . |
| 29 | We went on to the villa which had been requisitioned for the Bologna branch of the Allied Screening Commission : like all the villas requisitioned by Germans and members of the Allied forces alike , it was far too splendid for the purpose to which they put it . |
| 30 | and erm I actually received twenty seven and twopence a week , to start with it was paid weekly but subsequently erm we went on to the monthly erm payments and er but that 's what I had and er I used to pay my sister fifteen shillings a week for , for lodgings . |