Example sentences of "went [prep] [det] [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 Your alarm clock went off this morning then Pete ?
3 When I found it , there was an argument and we went for each other . ’
4 ‘ I think that they got a bit carried away , ’ she laughs , ‘ I 'm not sure why they went for that word exactly .
5 Why did you go on about that erm place where you went for that beer and you know , you said that we worked for that
6 I could have done with it , I could n't get on the bloo they got this internal bus service that runs from each college , cos you have to go to the other colleges for your lectures , and I just sort , there 's not enough , and you , you get turned away , and I just thought , I went for that bus Tuesday morning , I was supposed to get it at eight fifteen , and he just said sorry , no more room .
7 As a result , when the two women went for that walk — which was followed by several others — the topic Sarah was so anxious to discuss just never came up .
8 Each time we went for another animal all those left howled and fought their chains to get close to us so as not to be left behind .
9 The club went for another batsman instead , and that 's why I was intent on resigning .
10 Suppose we went for this drink and the Hobbs greeted us ?
11 Well as I say I went for this interview and she phoned me last Sunday did n't she ?
12 The route went through all manufacturing departments and ended with tea and a sandwich buffet in the canteen .
13 In the meantime , I went through all sorts of misery , puzzlement , desperation , confusion , fuck knows what .
14 At the same time he went through all books which had appeared in England on these sciences .
15 The majority of people that went through that service all had some recollection of things they did n't enjoy very much but they by and large thoroughly enjoyed their experience in the Army , it livened them up , it made them better men and we have got after all one of the best armies if not the best army in the world , it 's got to come from
16 I can understand why a kid would kill himself if he went through that sort of experience .
17 All who went through that regime of training remember the extremes of fatigue and of being pushed to their limits .
18 The teacher went through each step and the children answered in unison .
19 Treasurer 's report the balance sheets were circulated to all and the treasurer went through each item of expenditure , explaining in detail .
20 ‘ Marge ? ’ offered Ivy , in a frank , open tone , and tea went through such stages as could be managed in those days of austerity .
21 That 's why sports cars went through such doldrums for so many years too , and shy we think of the sudden plethora of ‘ traditional ’ small sports cars as a sports car ‘ revival ’ .
22 I went through such hell … imagining you together … imagining you making love to her … ’
23 Dr Ranganathan was one of the most brilliant and imaginative figures the profession has seen ; his Colon Classification went through many revisions and new editions , and is widely in use in his own country , yet elsewhere it is admired but , for good reasons , not employed .
24 Chaverim kol Yisroel — ‘ All Israel are brothers ’ — was what went through many minds .
25 Illustrated with engravings of chemical apparatus , it went through many editions and is a landmark in the transformation of alchemy , with its strong mystical element , into chemistry as an exact science .
26 His Analysis of a Course of Lectures in Experimental Philosophy ( 5th edn. 1767 ) , ranging over the whole of the natural sciences , went through many editions , as did his Concise Essays upon Various Philosophical and Chemical Subjects ( 1770 ? )
27 In the course of my own childhood and adolescence my immediate family went through several changes , mostly involving separation and loss , but at the same time certain factors remained constant .
28 It went through several mutations , but he failed to convince his publisher of its commercial viability .
29 And though the notion of the ‘ common good ’ went through several transformations at the hands of the New Liberals , it continued , in Hobhouse 's words , to require ‘ a readiness to forgo personal advantage for the general gain , a recognition of mutual dependence ’ .
30 The move from anti-Jewish sentiments to full-scale political anti-semitism went through several stages .
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