Example sentences of "he went [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went to an auction of a big house in Cambridge and bought a lot of cheap carpets . |
| 2 | He went to an Indian fortune-teller and asked for advice . |
| 3 | I 'm not sure if he went to an established rap school , although it 's more likely that he 's a self-taught man . |
| 4 | ‘ He went to an all-night poker game last night . |
| 5 | ‘ Maurice , as a young man , had a strong antipathy for business ; he went to an art college and after … ’ |
| 6 | When he left the house — Jessica had still not come down — he drove in the McCausland car to the heart of Belfast , where he went to an office in a grey , featureless building and followed up the leads . |
| 7 | When landlords refused to open their granaries , he went with an army of tribal people to loot them , promising to return what they had taken in a better season . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He went on an orgy of self-destruction in 1985 , after his fiancée left him when their baby daughter died just two days old . |
| 10 | Ray Beattie , Manager , Nantwich Branch fulfilled a life long ambition to visit Israel when he went on an eight-day tour of the country . |
| 11 | ‘ One moment , ’ Frau Nordern said , placing a well aimed dart between the Sergeant 's broad , grey-clad shoulders as he went into an inner office . |
| 12 | He went into an espresso bar and drank some coffee . |
| 13 | He went into an off-licence and bought a large bottle of Bell 's . |
| 14 | High academic success did not come immediately to Roberts — he went as an undergraduate to the University of California at Los Angeles ( UCLA ) rather than the prestigious Cal-Tech , because his high school grades were too low for the latter . |
| 15 | From there he went as an assistant solicitor to Tynemouth county borough council , returning to Bishop Auckland after the war to take over an old-established firm of solicitors which had belonged to Colonel Dowling and which later merged with Ernest Proud 's old practice . |
| 16 | He went in an engineer with wide interests in orchestral music ; he emerged a committed Wagnerian , fascinated by Wagner 's very special approach by music theatre . |
| 17 | and er he went in an old car a model A Ford , there 's a model T Ford on that one |