Example sentences of "[noun] went [verb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isabel , backing further into the shadows , dared to breathe again when the soldier went to pick up the ale-cups . |
| 2 | He asked the mother the child 's weight , worked out the dose and Kathleen went to draw up the drug and get the Flamazine ointment . |
| 3 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 4 | New loans went to pay off the interest on earlier loans rather than on buying new farm machinery or modernising farming methods . |
| 5 | Nutty went to round up the others with the good news and returned to find their new trainer surrounded by an admiring crowd . |
| 6 | Madra went to build up the fire . |
| 7 | Tim went ran up the tree . |