Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] went [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The DHSS were playing me up over the removal grant , so one of my sons went up to the house to see if there were any letters — everything had been smashed , crocks were smashed and the beds were slashed . |
| 2 | Then one of my sons went down into the village to see if the army had left , He came back to tell us that they had destroyed everything , that they had taken all the maize , all the cows and had burnt every house in sight . |
| 3 | My mind went back to the scene in that bedroom and the sliding doors to the paved patio . |
| 4 | we had our red and white rosettes and when our , I was sitting watching the match and when they scored the goal my slippers went up in the air . |
| 5 | First Mrs Agnes McGuinness : ‘ My husband went out on the Saturday and I did n't see him again until the Sunday morning . |
| 6 | My friend went on down the winding road for about two miles , finishing at the quayside , where he rapped smartly on a door . |
| 7 | Back in Cardiff , my name went up on the Honours Board and my father , in the last year before his retirement , quietly enjoyed the thought that I was to spend at least part of my life in the county in which his father had been born . |
| 8 | Our fourth child had been born 10 years previously and I do n't expect anyone believed there would be any more , but my wife and I thought we were getting too old too quickly , so we would have another two ; and on November 5 that year my wife went down to the bonfire which was already alight and saw on top of it a dropside cot she had been keeping , and which had served the four children , a relatively new carricot , and other items of that sort . |
| 9 | So my father went over on the Monday evening and after such a a young man paid such interest in the garden and paying so much compliments , Well you ca n't go home without coming in for a cup of tea . |
| 10 | Next day my father went back to the war and my mother back to the boarding school where she was on teaching practice as a French assistante , and spoke to the future wives of doctors and civil servants : Je suis , tu es , il est , nous sommes . |
| 11 | My father went off to the park . |
| 12 | I invariably receive responses such as ‘ anger ’ , ‘ fear ’ , ‘ frustration ’ , ‘ inadequacy ’ , ‘ failure ’ , ‘ my ideals went out of the window ’ , ‘ I wanted to throttle him/her ’ . |
| 13 | The main opposition party , the right-wing Community party ( Atassut ) , lost three seats , leaving it with eight , as some of its support went over to the Centre Party , which entered the legislature for the first time with two seats . |
| 14 | Sister Rosario looked at the pinched face of Maura Ryan and her heart went out to the child . |
| 15 | Louisa received it so , and her heart went out to the suffering woman . |
| 16 | ‘ My father called me Breeze , ’ she added , as he seemed interested ; and as she said that her mind went back to the hot summer 's day when her father had given her the nickname which had been adopted by everyone . |
| 17 | Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ? |
| 18 | ‘ Do n't let Dad hear for God 's sake , ’ she moaned quietly , as all her inhibitions went out of the window . |
| 19 | The ponies walked slowly because their feet went down into the snow . |
| 20 | Unhinged in her mind when her fiancé went down with the Wessex , poor dear . ’ |
| 21 | They strolled through Paris together , after her husband went back to the front . |
| 22 | On the evening of a masked ball in the palace she came visiting with Bothwell and other lords , and while she chatted to her husband they — with or without her knowledge went down to the cellar to prepare the gunpowder stored there . |
| 23 | The ILP certainly broke up , but most of its members went back into the Labour Party . |
| 24 | Her hand went out to the telephone , then drew back . |
| 25 | She seemed to be more pleased with that , and flashing me a grin from over her shoulder went off towards the Clubhouse entrance . |
| 26 | Encouraged by their neighbour 's cheeriness , Ellie and her brother went round to the back of her house and shyly waited to be let in . |
| 27 | ‘ Matilda is the late King 's daughter , Hugh , and we all took that oath to recognise her as the future queen after her brother went down with the White Ship , ’ protested the Prior . |
| 28 | After waking the older girl , her mother went back into the house to finish her coffee , and almost immediately heard first one , then several other cars go speeding up the lane past the door . |
| 29 | Even more drastic intervention was to take place in China ; its roots went back to the control of the Chinese government 's revenue by foreign supervision of the Customs from 1858 onwards . |
| 30 | As a last resort , she and her son went back to the Children 's Home . |