Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [adj] went [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in 1924 when I was fourteen that I first went to work for Mrs Field . |
| 2 | You may discover early on in an interaction through words that you share common ground ( that you both went to the same school , for instance ) . |
| 3 | That was the year that we first went into Canada and I remember that I picked the Canadian franchise because she did n't war a bra ! |
| 4 | This monologue went on throughout dinner , after which he insisted that we all went across the road to the village hall where he would show us his slides of the Lake District . |
| 5 | I remembered John Bunyan 's Pilgrim 's Progress and , after explaining the story briefly , said that we all went through a Slough of Despond at some time , but God led us out . |
| 6 | She made a very positive effort to be the right kind of person to be around — in other words , she was not a liability , she was an asset , an extremely good cook and a very good organiser , and having discovered that we both went to the same school in Switzerland where French was the main language taught , we would enjoy talking to each other in French , much to the annoyance of David who could n't understand the language . ’ |
| 7 | Raskolnikov turns to Sonya ; ‘ it was to her , Sonya , that he first went with his confession ; when he felt the need of a human being , he sought the human being in her ’ — which does indeed isolate for a moment , and emphasize , the mystic business of his alienation from the human family ; and for this moment the dross ( as it were ) of Sonya and of Raskolnikov is withheld ; the god in his humanity is looking for the god in hers . |
| 8 | Denis Brailsford , an inter-war spectator and a distinguished sports historian , recalled that he first went to football in the 1930s as part of his father 's extended family of miners and their wives , who made up the core of a group that regularly went to Mansfield Town 's home games . |