Example sentences of "[vb past] and go " in BNC.

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1 ‘ That is not your business ! ’ she shouted and went upstairs to dress for the evening .
2 She pushed it off , rose and went to look out of the window to see what the weather was like .
3 Moran rose and went outside .
4 He rose and went to a bookcase , where leather-bound books were displayed .
5 She rose and went to her aunt and put her arms round her shoulders .
6 The two men rose and went through the minister 's anteroom into his main office .
7 No , that was not what Jean-Claude had in mind , and he rose and went inside a played a few bars of something by Scriabin .
8 He rose and went to the window , looking down the slope .
9 Then Abbot Radulfus rose and went to the altar .
10 Elizabeth waited for a moment as though for someone else to open the door and then rose and went to do so herself .
11 Edward rose and went into the hall .
12 He rose and went next door to find the girl he knew would be sleeping there .
13 The Scarabae rose and went like some collective creature , some sort of amoeba with Ruth its glowing heart , into the drawing room .
14 She rose and went to the window , still in the half-real state induced by daytime sleeping , and looked out at the darkening world where the yellow glow of a lamp in the yard showed Jem was milking .
15 Cranston roared as he rose and went to fetch the boots standing in the comer .
16 Couville rose and went across to a long leaden tube .
17 Then she rose and went over to the bed , pulled back the covers and slipped between the cool , fresh sheets .
18 She made a belated grab for her wits while Guy rose and went to answer the summons , exchanging a few murmured words with whoever was on the other side of the door .
19 Having made up her mind , she rose and went to shower and change .
20 But Charles dithered and went off to sea .
21 He stopped and went on in a low voice , ‘ I came back early from school and when I came in I saw she 'd been crying . ’
22 He put the letter in his Out tray and moved on to another piece of paper , and then he stopped and went back to the first letter .
23 I could , I used to run it down and er , and that 's the only reason me mother would let me , but they was pleased as punch when I stopped and went and worked for me dad again .
24 She stopped and went to look out of the window .
25 about three years ago he uprooted and went to Guildford .
26 We obeyed and went in to sit in a sombre half-circle round the fire .
27 Dissidents like Francis Pym came and went ; his banner of revolt , The Politics of Consent ( 1984 ) , a cool , rational argument in favour of ‘ consensus ’ , failed to spark a Heathite revival .
28 The forms of criminal or lawless activity which have followed the civil rights movement which came and went in 1969–71 will disappear as and when there is a general conviction that there is going to be one society and one particular sort of society in Northern Ireland — that is to say , one state , one particular sort of state , and no other .
29 A running and ringing in the darkening afternoon , urgent voices on the phone and the grind and clang of the lift as it came and went .
30 Chirk , trying to retain a hint of character despite the volume of traffic that passes through it on the A5 , came and went , then , across the River Ceiriog and out of Wales into England .
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