Example sentences of "they went [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They went over to greet them and gather details of the events on Sunday when they were said to have ringed the churchyard and exacted an oath against the Act from all the gentlemen in the congregation . |
| 2 | At the time of the lobby revolt , ‘ No one could have been in any doubt that if they went over to [ the rebel papers ' ] side , they would cook their goose with Number Ten . ’ |
| 3 | They all were , so they went over en masse . |
| 4 | They made no attempt to molest me in any way , and after having hugged the post for about five minutes they went over to see if any of the Museums were open . |
| 5 | Feldstein told Holly at what time they went over to the Kitchen for the evening 's food and he spoke of the compulsory attendance afterwards at the Political Education Unit . |
| 6 | They went over to the far end of the pit . |
| 7 | Public sector negotiators knew the consequences if they went over that limit , though in practice the Treasury might relent a little with groups like nurses and fund part of the extra settlement . |
| 8 | When Nenna told them that she had urgent business on the other side of London and that she would have to ask whether Martha and Tilda could stay the night , Rochester accepted without protest , and they went over , taking with them their nightdresses , Cliff records , the Cliff photograph and two packets of breakfast cereals , for they did not like the same kind . |
| 9 | And they went over just to be fitted with the |
| 10 | They went over to the nearby tea-stall and then , with their glasses of tea , drifted over to one of the trees where a chestnut-seller was just lighting his fire . |
| 11 | And every so often erm the British look at this with a rather interested eye , and you 'll find that erm Parliamentary committees erm there was one on the British Civil Service about two years , three years ago , nineteen seventy-seven , they went over to France to have a look at how the French did this to see if they could learn anything from the French experience , but in fact it 's very difficult to transport somebody else 's experience , lock , stock and barrel , into the British situation , and they quite sensibly concluded this would n't be a good idea . |
| 12 | And then when they went over to the other side of the road which I do n't walk on very often |
| 13 | They went round American universities challenging the debaters . |
| 14 | Now Sid and Ethel demonstrated a samba , doing scissor-cutting steps backwards and forwards , then with hands on hips somehow entwined , and heads looking behind them , they went round in a circle . |
| 15 | When last orders were called and they had to leave the pub , they went round to the fish and chip shop to see if it was open , but like the kinema , it too was closed . |
| 16 | Once when they went round a corner she swayed against him and caught his arm to steady herself . |
| 17 | They were the workers and er they sort of opened their kitchen up , or the back scullery , they went round to the local butcher scrounging and begging meat , to the greengrocers for peas , parsnips , carrots , you name it it all went into this big huge copper , which I 've previously described to you as a washing copper , and they boiled all this soup up and we kids used to take the a jug and er we had to find the biggest jug we could , in the house that we could get , well the biggest jug we ever had was the wash-hand stand that was in the bedroom , that 's the wash-hand stand jug . |
| 18 | Though she was huddled in the corner as far from him as she could get , the car was n't very big , and every time they went round a corner his thigh and shoulder pressed against hers . |
| 19 | And they went round on their rounds and they called along every eleven days . |
| 20 | Well er they they took so much money when the end of that when they stopped travelling the horse when they was finished the season , they went round all the farms and collected what they call the fairways money . |
| 21 | Well they went round then the spring and collected all that from the farmers but the men that travelled the stallion went to the house first to see the mare was in foal . |
| 22 | Jes paid her on Sunday and instead of telling us how they went round for her wages yesterday and he 'd already paid her , and she 'd gone to school with money in her car ! |
| 23 | Guess what time they went round . |
| 24 | They went around from house to house demanding the licensing fee . |
| 25 | But early that spring , these adventures seemed unlikely if not impossible : the men had little quinine , their boots and clothes were worn thin , and when attack was unlikely they went around barefoot . |
| 26 | They went ar they went around all the houses . |
| 27 | They went around and oh well they they could n't post them because there was no post at the time . |
| 28 | When they went up to the study Ethel and Mary waited outside with the little trays of sundries , catching glimpses of the people in the room , all of them nervously talking in high voices . |
| 29 | After the prayers they went up in turn and kissed Moran and then Rose who returned their kisses warmly , and they slipped away to their rooms . |
| 30 | He opened the car door for her , hugged her as she got out , and they went up to her flat , his arm round her shoulders . |