Example sentences of "[conj] i 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 and I went around with the current .
17 The bar was full , I could see that through the saloon window and I went round to the yard at the rear .
18 We played late on the first day and I went round in the morning spotting the pin positions , trying to get a feel for the course so I could give the right information to Nick .
19 The sleeping-car attendant sighed deeply at so much opulent femininity and philosophically returned to his roomette , and I went on up the train into the next car , where my own bed lay .
20 My wife and I went up to the pay booth .
21 He retired to his basket in a huff and I went off to the supermarket in a quandary .
22 I pushed hard and I picked up some places , but then in the bad conditions Lehto caught me and I went off into the wet and that was it . ’
23 Leaving Joy to help Miss Prescott with what are called the last offices ( Joy is also a trained nurse ) , Alan and I went back to the house and between us brought the coffin down from the loft .
24 I told the co-pilot to take over and I went back to the radio room and saw Charlie with blood all over his head and the front of his flight suit ’ .
25 It was now early July , and I went back to the Usk to film the silver-grey mink .
26 He hung up and I went back to the salon .
27 And there was a lot of space between the hut and the door and the wind took me and flung me right up against the tank and I went down to the ground and crawled on me hands and knees .
28 there and I went down to the at and he said we got your lintel in mate , do you want to take it ?
29 So and I went down in the pool this morning
30 Andy and I went down by the river and the loch , clambering up the rocks upstream then back down , watching fish jump lazily out on the calm loch , or strike at the insects speckling those flat waters , jaws snapping underneath ; dispatching , swallowing , leaving ripples .
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