Example sentences of "[noun prp] went [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relations with the Vatican had been broken off in 1861 but Pope John Paul II visited Mexico in 1990 [ see p. 37475 ] while Salinas went to the Vatican in July 1991 . |
| 2 | I thought to myself : ‘ Oh no ’ but Auntie Dot went into the fence and was brilliant at it . |
| 3 | When Molly went to the Berlin Olympic Games in 1936 to translate for nuns from the college in Shanghai , recent graduates from the Medau Schule came to teach with Peggy , and plans were being made to establish a Medau Training College in England . |
| 4 | Cadfael went into the church before High Mass , uneasy for all his declarations of faith , and guiltily penitent over his uneasiness , a double contortion of the mind . |
| 5 | Jeff went to the psychiatrist and they start babbling on saying about the forty milligrams of valium he 's taking . |
| 6 | While Drago and Apanage went into the small kitchen next to Drago 's workroom to prepare a meal , Cleo and Dauntless sat in a cosy parlour where a log fire warmed the stones of an enormous chimney breast . |
| 7 | We only possess one piece of information with which to lend precision to the general statement that Richard went through the rebels ' lands with fire and sword , capturing and demolishing their fortresses , and this suggests that Geoffrey de Rancon 's castle of Taillebourg was once again at the centre of events . |
| 8 | LAUREL and Hardy went to the seaside yesterday … and found the Tories looking washed up . |
| 9 | Vicki Heaney and Paula Hill went to the Seychelles , Julia Aglionby and Katherine Walker to Indonesia and Claire Sketch to Dominica . |
| 10 | Ken went to the man 's flat before they were going out to dinner . |
| 11 | Toby went to the window to look down , then pulled his head back in , his face pale with fear . |
| 12 | Mrs Wright went into the house and Philip went out into the road . |
| 13 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 14 | The following week Sylvie went to the clinic in Pennsylvania . |
| 15 | A police inspector said Ivan went into the NIE office in Dungannon on March 8 last and paid a bill for £705 with a cheque drawn in the name of his late mother-in-law . |
| 16 | When the group were all finally back in their minibus Rachel and David went through the now expected ritual of waving them goodbye . |
| 17 | A man of action all his life , David went into the Army in the RAMC as a young man and later trained as a State Registered Nurse in a civilian hospital . |
| 18 | I know , because after the war ended , and all the telephones went dead , my father , my brother Joseph and Cousin David went in the truck to find out what was happening , and the first place they went was Ogdentown . |
| 19 | Meredith went into the cottage , arms full of bags . |
| 20 | Muhammad went up the mountain — ; He was up there for more than an hour — |
| 21 | A Baptism of Christ by sixteenth-century Venetian artist Carlotto Carliari sold for only FFr30,000 ( £3,000 ; $5,300 ) , within its estimate , a seventeenth-century oil on copper of the Holy Family attributed to the ‘ entourage ’ of Sassoferrato went for FFr29,000 ( £2,900 ; $5,100 ) and a Virgin and Child attributed to eighteenth-century French painter Jean Restout went under the hammer for FFr 22,000 . |
| 22 | Corbett went up the great steps of the hospital , past the group of old soldiers , their limbs grotesquely amputated , who enlivened each other with stories of their past . |
| 23 | Corbett went past the church towards the priest 's house and knocked gently on the half-open door . |
| 24 | The shit went into a waste bin , and Lucy went into the Wardrobe room to wait . |
| 25 | Lucy went through the door to find herself facing a tall , dark-haired woman whose attire breathed sophisticated elegance . |
| 26 | Lucy went to the desk and opened the book . |
| 27 | Lucy went to the machine , turned back the tape , and the next instant Bill Martin 's voice floated into the office . |
| 28 | Lucy went to the machine and reversed the tape . |
| 29 | When Lucy went around the dressing rooms picking up after the final number , her hands shook . |
| 30 | Later , McFadden went to the media and praised Linfield for their bold approach . |