Example sentences of "[pron] went [adv prt] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.

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1 I went across the course to the stands side to see the horses in the paddock , and then I went up to the very comfy Tribune des Dames , for which the French Racing Authorities so generously send me a badge each year .
2 I went down to the straight away to the coal dealer and said , Take him a load of coal , and he took him .
3 The tide was ebbing , and they went down on the steeply shelving bed of the Conway .
4 The glass was a deep blue colour , opaque , so the outside world could see nothing of what went on inside the heavily guarded building .
5 Radulfus maintained his judicial calm , and the earl 's broad brow was suave and benign , though there was no guessing what went on in the highly intelligent mind behind it ; but Prior Robert and Sub-Prior Herluin sat very erect , stiff in the spine and with long , refined faces sharpened into steel , studiously not looking straight at each other , but maintaining each a bright gaze on distance , and the appearance of considering with magisterial detachment the situation that confronted them .
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