Example sentences of "and [pers pn] went [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 It was the last day of shooting and they did n't need us till nine o'clock that morning , so Keenan [ Wynn ] and me went over to the bar and had a couple there and I said , ‘ You know , Keenan , it 's gon na be a long hot day so we 'd better stop off at the drug store and buy a jug . ’
2 Derek and me went along to the new wans Christening and he was like a tink !
3 and I went around with the current .
4 The bar was full , I could see that through the saloon window and I went round to the yard at the rear .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 My wife and I went up to the pay booth .
8 He retired to his basket in a huff and I went off to the supermarket in a quandary .
9 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 . ’
10 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 .
11 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 ’ .
12 It was now early July , and I went back to the Usk to film the silver-grey mink .
13 He hung up and I went back to the salon .
14 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 .
15 there and I went down to the at and he said we got your lintel in mate , do you want to take it ?
16 So and I went down in the pool this morning
17 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 .
18 One Sunday Joe and I went out on the marshes , as usual , to study together .
19 Amy and I went out for the day .
20 A call of nature interrupted my pleasure and I went out to the necessary house behind the tavern , nothing more than a hole in the ground enclosed by a shabby wooden palisade and a door which bolted from the inside .
21 Then one day I had to go to the Post Office for something — one of them forms I daresay — so I thought I better wrap up , I better take care , you 're very vulnerable after a long illness you know , and I put my old long mack on and one of the kids ' mack hats and Wellingtons and I went out in the rain , feeling , in a depressed sort of way , ‘ Well , if I get ill again , what can I do ?
22 Being already in the City I was n't far from the divisional H.Q. , and I went along in the hope of finding Redpath there .
23 ‘ Things are obviously becoming very busy and I went in over the weekend to do a bit of work .
24 But then I thought , ‘ I 'll show him , ’ and I went in for the Pub Entertainer of the Year contest .
25 You know you went in and you went out with the reps and
26 I mean , it 's hard to think of an equivalent , but say you were an inhabitant of Hastings in the year 2066 and you went down to the beach one day and these longships were coming towards you and lots of people in chainmail and pointy helmets got out and said they 'd come for the Battle of Hastings and would you rustle up King Harold so they could shoot him in the eye and here was a huge wallet full of money for you to play your part .
27 And the two rounds in the morning you did the bottom half of , for the first round and you went back to the shop and you got another bag full of papers and you did the top half of , if you know it .
28 And she went out of the room , leaving Clare and Bryony facing one another over two thousand five hundred sheets of paper that had to be folded by Friday .
29 He turned the horse away and walked off , ignoring her , and she went back to the house seething with annoyance .
30 He gave her a quick nod of approval and she went down to the end of the shop and began filling in the certificates , taking her information from the records Mr Miller had already made .
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