Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] went [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 At about the same time that I went up into the Boys ' School , my friend Hubert Gould moved away to Bournemouth and my other friend Alf Norris moved from The Friary to Greencroft Street and , as this was only two hundred yards from our house , we saw quite a lot of each other .
2 Erm that I went through at the beginning you know which is basically write to lots of people
3 In my own defence I can say only that I went along for the ride , as it were , if you 'll forgive the expression , Mr Milton . ’
4 The Sierra had parked about a third of the way down the street , so I went on past the junction and ran Armstrong up on to the pavement .
5 There was no answer to my knock so I went round to the side door facing the canal .
6 There was only a bit of spare paper left and some of it had got streaks of cheese-grease on , so I went over to the newsagent 's stall and bought an exercise book for 35p .
7 ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself .
8 So I went down to the canal .
9 It seemed as good a time as any to go , so I went down to the squat in the King 's Road where I was living and picked up my passport .
10 It went on and on until I was nearly frantic , so I went out for the evening several times in one week to release the tension .
11 ‘ Killer blah , ’ he said in a strange tone of voice that I took to be a warning so I went back under the chair .
12 By early evening , I was just too bored to stick the place any longer so I went back to the hotel .
13 Their life was already hard enough , so I went back to the wild fruit in the woods .
14 They were still uncomfortable , so I went back into the optician .
15 It was then that I decided to help myself , so I went along to the local college and enrolled in what appeared to me to be ‘ a way to relax ’ — the Alexander Technique .
16 She was all but out of the door on her way to Oxford Street when , incredibly , she found herself shaking , so much so that she went back into the tiny bedroom and lay down .
17 There was no food in the chalet , so she went up to the house .
18 Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece
19 She tried reading him Wordsworth and Tennyson and Browning but he would sigh and interrupt her when she did , so she went back to the lighter Kipling poems and he would lie and grin happily to himself and make her read his favourite passages over and over again .
20 in the afternoon so we went out in the morning to an antique fair
21 That 's right , , it 's a , it 's a , so my mother and I said we 're going back to that hotel , you know , were very , very kind of luxury type , so we went back to the hotel and my brother and I went into the room where we had a television view on the sea , very beautiful .
22 Fear slowed his thoughts , and grudgingly granted him one consolation : at this speed they must come out at the bottom a damn sight faster than they went through at the top .
23 Erm , and you know , let's face it , I did n't have to go through the circumstances that they went through in the war , and there therefore , who who am I to judge
24 She wanted to check on some of her cultures before they left the building , so they went up to the third floor and along a corridor lined with rooms numbered for experimentation and behavioural study .
25 So they went up to the village pub and had a few drinks .
26 Our first Members ' Evening was held at the Community College on Friday 1st March 1991 and its success can be judged by the fact that it went on until the Social Secretary literally had to call a halt at 11.15 p.m. !
27 ‘ It could be inferred from the date of university graduation , provided of course , that he went up at the usual time . ’
28 But she maintained that he went off to the Supersight factory with Brian Harley for several days .
29 There was nothing worth watching on television , so he went back into the kitchen .
30 Charles knew it would be unprofessional to use the pass-door from backstage to the auditorium once the house had started to fill , so he went out of the Stage Door to walk round .
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