Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] went [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They clearly needed some help in deciding what book to buy , but they did not ask an assistant and eventually went out without purchasing . |
| 2 | But after losing her only child , ‘ both she and her husband took to drink and dishonest dealing , and finally went back to South Africa under a cloud . ’ |
| 3 | He said : ‘ We know the car rounded the bend and somehow went out of control , mounting the pavement and striking the girls . ’ |
| 4 | For despite empty houses on its provincial tour , this wordy , intelligent , seemingly uncommercial verse drama was a success in London , ran for a year and then went over to Broadway . |
| 5 | The aircraft returned to Klagenfurt and then went on to Naples where he spent two nights before flying to England on 24 May , he said . |
| 6 | I said , no , and she said oh I have lots of times , I only live at Manchester , you see , and of course , you had to go by boat you see , and I caught the boat train from Ipswich at eight o'clock in the morning and I got to Manchester at lunchtime about one and then went on to Liverpool and the train there took us almost down to the docks . |
| 7 | She spent three years in Paris studying biology under Baron Georges Cuvier , and then went on to Switzerland , the Netherlands , Germany , Italy , and Spain . |
| 8 | The Ellerman & Bucknall ladies team won their heat and then went on to victory in the final . |
| 9 | He now removed it briefly to say , ‘ You are a nice lady , ’ and then went off in search of a gun . |
| 10 | Prost won out in the end and then went off in persuit of Hill … |
| 11 | Gerald Annesley was educated at Wellington and then went out to Kenya by steerage . |
| 12 | But definitely so he sort of went on his own and then went back into building and decorating and then when the Empire opened he started there from the off . |
| 13 | I found work but I did n't tell them I had nowhere to stay , that when it was night time , I got on the night buses and stayed there until morning and then went back to work . |
| 14 | As Nicholson went on , telling him how King Morken died and his children swore to kill Kentigern who came south to Carlisle and then — learning of the paganism of the fell people — into the heartland of the lakes where he founded many churches , established missions , stood up to his neck in Derwent Water to read the Psalms and then went down into Wales … |
| 15 | He stayed first in New York with Robert Giroux , and then went down to Washington partly in order to see Ezra Pound . |
| 16 | He slept one night at home and then went down to Nunes , taking Rufus Fletcher with him . |
| 17 | In the preface to Stephen Winsten 's Salt and his Circle ( 1951 ) G. B. Shaw [ q.v. ] said that ‘ Salt was a born naturalist and never went out of doors without a binocular to watch the birds . ’ |
| 18 | I tried both violin and piano , but always went back to guitar . ’ |
| 19 | Back in Johannesburg after the war , Herbert began to practise law in partnership with one of his elder brothers , James , but later went off to Europe for a year to study law in Vienna . |
| 20 | She had a very involved son and daughter-in-law but both went out to work and therefore could not manage continual care ( although she had respite hospital care two weeks in six ) . |
| 21 | Nigel moved into Polly 's £750,000 luxury home in Kensington but then went back to Carolyn in a last attempt to save his marriage . |