Example sentences of "went [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it first went off some time ago it would n't go but one day I took I took a jelly out in a glass dish and it bonked this thing and the light came on again . |
| 2 | My mind was a blank ; I automatically went through some drills and some stretching . |
| 3 | This went through some crises , as when the Americans dispatched marines to put down a left-wing government in the British island of Grenada in 1984 , without communicating their intentions to the British government . |
| 4 | I 'm told , though , that she went with some relief — because she would n't be around to witness what promised to be the ghastly ignominy of election day . |
| 5 | The next time I used a prostitute was a couple of years later when I went with some friends to Amsterdam . |
| 6 | Is Well I was I 'm trying to think where I was I was at Blackpool , er I went to Blackpool for two days , I went with some friends . |
| 7 | Because he 'd wound so much of it around his hand , the bundle went with some weight and accuracy and then tumbled , unravelling like a falling spider , on the other side . |
| 8 | But that one was and I heard a year ago but I never saw it till the bus driver I went with some years ago up to John O'Groats . |
| 9 | ‘ I went up some stairs the wrong way , ’ he said slowly . |
| 10 | He went into some comedy patter , bouncing lines off Thelma . |
| 11 | London Life , covering a party held by the National Sun and Air Association , went into some detail in describing the magician Mr Tony Alexander , who , despite his absence of clothing , managed to Produce cards and handkerchiefs from thin air and won himself a round of applause — and a five pound bet into the bargain . |
| 12 | When I reviewed the GR-50 back in December ‘ 91 , I went into some detail regarding the fitting of the GK-2 pickup to the guitar of your choosing . |
| 13 | he dealt with the principles involved and went into some detail of the features of different engine designs . |
| 14 | When I lost a temporary job in a local Traffic Office , I packed my things rather than face another bleak winter and with seven shillings and sixpence in my pocket I went to some friends in south-east London . |
| 15 | Oh I went to some friends of mine . |
| 16 | When people wished to resist this ranking they went to some lengths to do so in a symbolic and more or less public way . |
| 17 | Mr Justice Cave , in his summing up , went to some lengths to inform the jury that , even when the taking of a human life appears on the surface a motiveless crime , this does not automatically make it manslaughter . |
| 18 | And yet he went to some lengths to press home the validity of this attitude . |
| 19 | The Medieval church went to some lengths to specify the roles of particular stones in religious imagery . |
| 20 | At the beginning of his speech , the Home Secretary went to some lengths to compare what life on this subject was like under a Labour Government in 1979 with what it is like under a Conservative Government now . |
| 21 | We went to some friend 's house , erm , and I , th this was ages ago , I 'd erm , done some wedding |
| 22 | Middle class commentators went to some pains to emphasise the importance of the wife 's role . |
| 23 | On the first day of the Ajdabiyan ballot many young men went to some length to insist that what was about to occur was closer to Athenian practice than anything that could possibly occur in Britain ; their disappointment at the outcome of the day was movingly transparent . |
| 24 | He had spoken to Paul Guillaume , an ambitious and knowledgeable young dealer , about Modigliani and went to some trouble to arrange an introduction . |
| 25 | ‘ We went to some trouble to explain the administrative , advertising and fundraising costs , ’ says John Tame . |
| 26 | Henry had copies of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle identifiable with our C and E , and went to some trouble to re-order his material so that his account of early English history was clearer than that of his sources ; Florence helped his readers by prefacing his work with lists of bishops of English sees and genealogies of English royal dynasties . |
| 27 | As we went down some steps and along a dark passageway , open to the sky , I recalled Maria 's visit to this terrible place , the night they 'd had Raoul here , the night Arsenio had wanted to kill Raoul and Osvaldo had forgiven him . |
| 28 | They went down some stairs . |