Example sentences of "we went " in BNC.

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1 We went into weekly rep in Aberdeen .
2 We went back in and looked some more .
3 When we went to Siena together ?
4 Operations manager Siobhan Hunter , who is responsible for the Morgan Grenfell contract , says : ‘ We 've been looking at computers for the past 18 months , and we went for Caterdata , having seen it in action at BE Services , the in-house caterer at the Bank of England . ’
5 The first course was on the table when we went into the dining-room .
6 ‘ Dorothy , it 's time we went to Final Assembly . ’
7 When I found it , there was an argument and we went for each other . ’
8 John came around to my flat after work one day , one thing led to another and we went to bed together .
9 Jenny bought two coffees and two buns and we went and sat down .
10 We went off to a little restaurant she knew near Leicester Square .
11 ‘ What sort of accommodation have you got in Harwich ? ’ she asked , as we went off to sit down in the lounge .
12 We went off to the canteen .
13 Jenny paid and we went to sit down .
14 We went to find a call-box .
15 After an eight-hour shift we went home — off duty — free men , while they in contrast went to their police houses and were available for ‘ discretional duty ’ , at the call of the system twenty-four hours a day ; proving we were independent free men and they were slaves !
16 So we went to bed . ’
17 When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig .
18 We never reckoned with this when we went and trounced the lairds ! ’
19 I met a friend at the college library and we went out for a coffee .
20 We went down and dwelled
21 We went back to our lives of ordinary miracles
22 Sometimes they were so drunk they fell asleep where they were and lay without pillows or covers until I returned from work , and then I would rage at them in Arabic , telling them that thanks to them my room was no better than the Italian 's pigsty at home ; we used to spit on the ground whenever we went near it , children and grownups alike , shouting exclamations of disgust , even though all we could see of it was the outer fence .
23 Finally we give in and rent the movie we ignored a few months ago when we went to see Midnight Run .
24 The BMC have sought clarification from the organisers and from Ben Moon ; as we went to press no reply had been received .
25 We went camping in Seville , Spain and because I liked to walk about they chained me to their table .
26 Then we went back for the long-service merit awards .
27 Have we yet reached the point at which we would be awarded damages against the Meteorological Office because we went camping on the day of an unforecast hurricane ?
28 We went through a process of learning about each other 's business ’ .
29 ‘ I flew down to Cape Town and at 9.30 we went — with my daughter , son-in-law and their two children — to Pollsmoor Prison to visit my husband .
30 If we went along with retail display allowances only the richest publishers would benefit , ’ he said .
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