Example sentences of "the [noun] [conj] i went [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And one day I dro I dropped it down the the drain as I went into the shop . |
| 2 | Now of course that 's er er the story but I went to them afterwards you see . |
| 3 | Well , let me tell you , you 'll know which one it is in a second — I went back , obviously years later , and I was having my beer and I finally had to go to the loo and I went into the ladies ' room and there was a big sign saying ‘ Elizabeth Taylor sat here ’ . |
| 4 | Er there was n't anything like the , well not to the schools that I went to , the corporal punishment that there seems to have been since . |
| 5 | Wondering what would happen I tried pulling up on the boom as I went into a turn . |
| 6 | I had first seen her in the desert when I went for my first ‘ bedu ’ breakfast and the prospective bridegroom 's brother had played fox in the hen coop . |
| 7 | The bloke that I went to out with . |
| 8 | The robot and I went into the computer room but Hee-Haw stayed outside . |
| 9 | Oh I do n't know actually it it was it was quite dramatic when I left the band because I went into variety you know and er some of those put bands are something else , cos some of the guys were sort of semi pros like just come from the mine shaft you know . |
| 10 | ‘ Once the Verey pistol ‘ ad been fired Lieutenant Makepeace led the charge and I went over the top after ‘ im followed by the rest of my section . |
| 11 | I wanted to go to Scotland and I remember I came to say goodbye to my parents and that was in the evening and I went by train to Liverpool Street and it was pouring with rain and I had to make my way , I had a taxi across to Euston , you see , and er and I went up th the left side of the country , see , past Carlisle and and then across and across and then and to Greenock er er to Dunoon , you see . |
| 12 | you see and I 'm glad I did n't miss it , I 'm glad I went through all what I did and , and this particular raid , you see , the siren went and they said a telegraph office read , you see , an and then I thought I 'll go to the back door and I went to the , well it was actually on the front of the station and I went to the front of the station and there was this plane swooping down like that and of course , you see , the bombs did n't fall down straight like that but they went as the plane went and they knocked down a row of houses at the end of the road . |
| 13 | That night , the night before I went to David Rosen 's office to hear Francis 's will , I was woken by a dream . |
| 14 | Erm but er when the war finished , when the war finished and the Home Guard stood down , I ca n't remember who was the mayor of Walsall at the time , but they had a reception in the town hall for the Home Guard and everyone that was in the Home Guard was invited before we hand before we st handed our uniforms in , was invited to attend and I must say with great pride that I was can still remember it now , that the wife and I went to the reception and I was in the uniform and it 'd be the mace bearer I presume that was at the door and he asked your name and er rank and he shouted out your name and rank when you went in and you was greeted by the mayor and mayoress inside the ves the hall of the town hall , and erm I mean er quite proud to be Corporal and Mrs you know and it I mean everyone that went , I mean their rank and name and who was with them , you know , was it was quite quite a er er quite a something of to look back to of interest that was , you know , when we stood down . |
| 15 | Oh the wife and I went around Mosside the day after the riots there and , do you remember the riots ? |
| 16 | Anyway erm tt I went down the day before I went into hospital actually for my op , and er |
| 17 | ‘ Do you realize it 's two years , six months and six days since I saw you on to a train — possibly this very one — the day before I went to America ? |
| 18 | Well aware of the undertaking he added ‘ The day before I went for a load of beers to prepare for the ordeal . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Kerry was in front of me at the start and I went past her on the second mile , ’ she said . |
| 20 | Chris took the chair and I went through the list of things that needed to be done to get us off the ground : a bank account , an address and telephone number somewhere , an eye-catching logo . |
| 21 | ‘ The was just a small knock on the rod and I went for it , ’ said Charlie , from Newport . |
| 22 | I was eating cakes in the morning before I went to school and for about two years I was dieting , trying one diet or another . |
| 23 | And Morgan J well he was the headmaster when I went to school first and he was there when I left and he retired and he was still here You know going about . |
| 24 | Frankie helped with the chopping and I went with Dad when he delivered the orders . |
| 25 | I said so I 've been to a local firm and he said well if you 'd wanted a job we could 've found you one , so I went to the Co-op and I went in the credit , working in the Co-op credit and er went from there to . |
| 26 | I mean one Friday I come , I left here about ten to one I went in the house and I went to bed and I was starving and Gordon says oh I 'm hungry I , so I went out straight down the stairs , come back up with a bloody big tray cups of teas now when I , after drinking down here , pasties now what I 'd taken home what I did n't sell here , crisps , sandwiches and a after I 'd ate it I felt so guilty . |
| 27 | ‘ So boo to you , ’ I said to the murderer as I went through the gate — and noticed for the first time that there were no bushes there , just a little hedge of lavender . |