Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] went [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | My mind went back to the scene in that bedroom and the sliding doors to the paved patio . |
2 | First Mrs Agnes McGuinness : ‘ My husband went out on the Saturday and I did n't see him again until the Sunday morning . |
3 | My friend went on down the winding road for about two miles , finishing at the quayside , where he rapped smartly on a door . |
4 | Back in Cardiff , my name went up on the Honours Board and my father , in the last year before his retirement , quietly enjoyed the thought that I was to spend at least part of my life in the county in which his father had been born . |
5 | Our fourth child had been born 10 years previously and I do n't expect anyone believed there would be any more , but my wife and I thought we were getting too old too quickly , so we would have another two ; and on November 5 that year my wife went down to the bonfire which was already alight and saw on top of it a dropside cot she had been keeping , and which had served the four children , a relatively new carricot , and other items of that sort . |
6 | So my father went over on the Monday evening and after such a a young man paid such interest in the garden and paying so much compliments , Well you ca n't go home without coming in for a cup of tea . |
7 | Next day my father went back to the war and my mother back to the boarding school where she was on teaching practice as a French assistante , and spoke to the future wives of doctors and civil servants : Je suis , tu es , il est , nous sommes . |
8 | My father went off to the park . |
9 | The main opposition party , the right-wing Community party ( Atassut ) , lost three seats , leaving it with eight , as some of its support went over to the Centre Party , which entered the legislature for the first time with two seats . |
10 | Sister Rosario looked at the pinched face of Maura Ryan and her heart went out to the child . |
11 | Louisa received it so , and her heart went out to the suffering woman . |
12 | ‘ My father called me Breeze , ’ she added , as he seemed interested ; and as she said that her mind went back to the hot summer 's day when her father had given her the nickname which had been adopted by everyone . |
13 | Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ? |
14 | Unhinged in her mind when her fiancé went down with the Wessex , poor dear . ’ |
15 | They strolled through Paris together , after her husband went back to the front . |
16 | On the evening of a masked ball in the palace she came visiting with Bothwell and other lords , and while she chatted to her husband they — with or without her knowledge went down to the cellar to prepare the gunpowder stored there . |
17 | Her hand went out to the telephone , then drew back . |
18 | She seemed to be more pleased with that , and flashing me a grin from over her shoulder went off towards the Clubhouse entrance . |
19 | Encouraged by their neighbour 's cheeriness , Ellie and her brother went round to the back of her house and shyly waited to be let in . |
20 | ‘ Matilda is the late King 's daughter , Hugh , and we all took that oath to recognise her as the future queen after her brother went down with the White Ship , ’ protested the Prior . |
21 | After waking the older girl , her mother went back into the house to finish her coffee , and almost immediately heard first one , then several other cars go speeding up the lane past the door . |
22 | As a last resort , she and her son went back to the Children 's Home . |
23 | But the rabbi was a very kind man and his heart went out to the poor man . |
24 | Gazza 's former Spurs team-mate Gary Lineker turned his talents to cricket yesterday and made 103 for Cross Arrows at Lord 's , but his side went down to the Stock Exchange by five wickets |
25 | His mind went back to the familiar and unanswerable question : who killed Newley ? |
26 | Now , when the farmer had left the house , his wife went out to the stable and saddled the pony. then she put on her husband 's best clothes , tied the turban high so as to look as tall as possible , jumped astride the pony , and set off to the field where the tiger was waiting . |
27 | ‘ Looks like his mate went off with the car . |
28 | But whenever Angus and his daughter went out in the boat fishing for their lives to keep themselves fed , it seemed that a seal swam in front of the boat and lead them towards the places where the fishes were thickest in the sea in that part of the coast . |
29 | His hand went out to the stone wall to brace himself . |
30 | Moxon snipped off the padlock , his partner went in on the roll , coming to his feet on the dusty floor inside the barn with his handgun drawn . |