Example sentences of "[adv] went [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Jessamy shakily got to her feet , took a couple of very deep breaths , then stubbornly went over to the door .
2 I really only went along to the interviews for a lark , as company for a friend .
3 Then , after dealing with the Grand Slam Cup and explaining how he only went along with the idea after insisting that the event would also produce $2m for the development of the game in ‘ third world tennis countries , he went on :
4 ‘ But the lift buttons only went down to the ground floor . ’
5 From that point on he only went down to the hospitals ‘ as and when required ’ .
6 He stayed there , watching it taxi away , and only went out to the cab rank when the plane had actually taken off .
7 At first he refused to answer , then realised that no assassin would make such a noise so went down to the door and called out : ‘ Who 's there ? ’
8 I was , as usual , appallingly nervous , so went back during the lunch hour to practise .
9 Then she swiftly went out of the house .
10 She merely went off to the nursery for a brief inspection , came back and pronounced him gorgeous .
11 When he first advocated these ideas Hare largely went along with the view of most attitudinists that a correct account of the meaning of ethical language has no definite implications as to what moral views one should take .
12 The Cobblers finally went out of the competition at Fulham .
13 I had the dubious pleasure , after Second Reading , of trying to pilot the House of Lords reform Bill through the House many years ago , when we found that the divisions were on both sides of the House and any idea that one could timetable or guillotine soon went out of the window .
14 I just went on about the frogs in the flowers , and I never thought about his dreams .
15 So they they did n't post them they people did the bidding they just went round like a postman and
16 Well it should n't it it did i but if you just went up to the top they got a pair of I should think about four or five lengths they had to take it off the sprocket and er course you see they
17 ‘ Later they told me my body just went up in the air and I was hanging on by one hand . ’
18 The seasons , if they are important enough , can grab people 's attention in the way that you would n't if the programmes just went out over a period of 16 or 20 weeks .
19 Oh , a at nineteen forty eight they split up the electric supply and the three was nationalized and erm it , it just went out of the control of the local councils , it was government controlled then and there was a distinct possibility that the transport section would be sold off to private enterprise and the only private enterprise that was capable of taking over then was the Eastern Counties but erm I think the , the erm local council having had the transport under their wing for so many years , fought off that erm feeling and erm they kept with it and er , of course all the accountancy went to the Borough Treasurer and the certain members of clerks from the Borough Treasurers , which was at in those days , er seconded on to transport accounts .
20 ‘ There was peach cup — that was very good ; and we played guessing games and I won three times and later on they rolled up the carpet — figuratively — we just went out on the terrace and turned on the gramophone and danced . ’
21 Erm I took the nine year old boat out and just went out in a boat we had Mary went as well , we were like the all job for mackerel put this guy 's
22 Most evenings now he was very cheerful and joked with her and played games with Oliver ; after they had gone to bed he usually went round to the pub to calm his nerves .
23 This actually was stopped in 1766 , but they still went down as a job — emancipation .
24 ‘ And now that 's done , ’ said the blind man , and he quickly went out of the inn .
25 Nobody hardly went out of the village ; and it was up to people to make their own enjoyment .
26 She hardly ever went out of the house or garden , and did not discuss her feelings with anyone , even Liddy .
27 I 'm frightened of the probation and the social services finding out that I 'm using again , 'cos when I came out this time , they said to me that , if I ever went back on the smack , that the kids 'd be took off me , no two ways about it … .
28 Which the authorities could not understand , because everyone knew that at lunchtime Mr Wolski always went down to the benches by the Cages and ate his sandwiches looking at the eagles .
29 I always went back to the farm for my holidays .
30 He later went on to the Fuel Element Design Office working on Springfields projects .
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