Example sentences of "[noun sg] he went [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 While he still had five fingers under his command he went back to the window and dropped Estabrook 's letter through , murmuring the address with a tongue that felt disfigured in his mouth .
2 When the distinguished writer Pavel Kohout recently returned from exile he went directly to The Slavia .
3 When he reached the last machine he went back to the beginning and played them all again .
4 In 1915 at Gallipoli Doughty-Wylie won a posthumous VC : at a critical moment in the landing he went ashore from the River Clyde , rallied the remnants of a battalion of the Hampshires , captured the heights above the beach , and there he was killed .
5 The moment he went back into the house the gardeners would run out to eradicate the tracks left by his coming and going .
6 Another delay as the work train was slowly shunted along , and as there were no seats on the customer side of the counter in the tiny room he went out into the periodicals area .
7 The very next day he went back to the doctor to tell him what had happened .
8 The next day he went back to the factory and found out the time of the funeral .
9 ‘ Tuesday was the day he went off in the van and came back with a bruised face ; presumably you 've got a record of the people he called on that day ?
10 After a while he went out into the hall and I heard him pick up the thing that makes noises and which he talks into when there 's no-one here .
11 By the Spirit he went in to the wilderness , by the Spirit he was led there , and in the power of the Spirit he returned to Galilee to begin his ministry ( Luke 4:1,14 ) .
12 In the afternoon he went back to the mill , and in the evening he studied his books and papers .
13 At lunch time he went down to the pub , hoping to meet Ted .
14 Every time he went abroad with the company he came back loaded up with western goods .
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