Example sentences of "i went [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and they were losing and I went to spur them on . |
| 2 | During the meal a great spider crawled on to the table cloth and I went to kill it with the leg of chicken I was gnawing , but Benjamin stopped me . |
| 3 | I 'll just tell him he left his door open , and when I went to shut it , I saw the mess . ’ |
| 4 | So I put it up and I gave to like that , I went put them in the water ! |
| 5 | ‘ Later , I went to watch him sparring in the ring . |
| 6 | So I well I sent him er our sheets , er sheet about the group and the minutes and er I contacted Michael er , who said he 'll be very happy to help in , so I er phoned up this chap and said , gave him Michael 's number and said erm he 'd like to come to this meeting tonight , he said yes , so I went to pick him up and I just could n't find that blinking house , anyone who knows Harlow , he 's in Parsonage Leys , I just could n't find the number it was , I just could n't find anything less than thirty seven |
| 7 | I went to pick them up at D'Amicos at eight . |
| 8 | It were one o'clock Monday I went to pick her up . |
| 9 | ‘ I left my calculator , I told you ; I went to pick it up . ’ |
| 10 | And I went down , and come back up with this tray of drinks and er Mike screaming , and I still had n't seen this feller I give the other drinks out , well when I went to take his in well he was as black as two o'clock in the morning was n't he ? |
| 11 | I went to open it , and there was Dana , travel-stained and weary but with a beaming smile on his sun-tanned face . |
| 12 | I rolled it up into a ball and pushed the shawl and lipstick inside the bundle , then I went to put it on Sally 's step . |
| 13 | If I went to put it in , I was gon na say and I went to put it in er cos it dries off does n't it ? |
| 14 | If I went to put it in , I was gon na say and I went to put it in er cos it dries off does n't it ? |
| 15 | I went to visit him in his room at Crazy Joe 's Plantation Village on the north end of Waimea Bay . |
| 16 | I went to visit him at the Benedictine monastery at Nashdom and asked him for any insights which he could give me from his experience in Accra . |
| 17 | When I went to visit him we sat in his book-lined study surrounded by all the trappings of an academic career but in his garage there were untreated specimens and a range of specialist tools . |
| 18 | I went to visit her just for a coffee or something , and she started saying , after a lot of stuttering , that I was having an affair with her husband . |
| 19 | One Sunday , when my father and I went to visit her , we found her condition had worsened . |
| 20 | Looking back , I fancy that when I went skiing I always hoped that the snow was covering some kindly grass , certainly not something as hard and painful as the arres of Pierre-Saint-Martin . |
| 21 | She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’ |
| 22 | About two , three hours later , after lunch , there was another ring on the doorbell , I went to answer it , and of course you can guess . |
| 23 | I washed my hands and tried to make my peace with her , but when I went to stroke her she hissed at me . |
| 24 | I was on two bags a day when I went to see me GP and I was on between a quarter and half a gram when I got to the hospital . |
| 25 | Next day , as soon as I 'd finished giving a police statement about a drug addict who had threatened me and attempted to steal syringes and prescriptions , I went to see her in hospital . |
| 26 | Then I went to see her alone . |
| 27 | So it was that every time I went to see her , she would run forward and stand , head on one side , looking like a little robin , waiting for her kiss . |
| 28 | ‘ I went to see her this morning like you said . |
| 29 | I went to see her a couple of times , but there was no progress . |
| 30 | ] ‘ I went to see her at Claridge 's … they are always so obsequious when one asks for her … . |