Example sentences of "he went [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parting the curtains , he went through to the front half of the room . |
| 2 | He went through to the Green Room , hoping that he 'd find Alex 's jacket still hanging there , with the gun still cold in its pocket , with all five shots still unfired . |
| 3 | He went through into the marbled bathroom and stood there in the shower , letting the cold , hard jets of water purge him . |
| 4 | He went over to a flowerbed and felt around in the mud . |
| 5 | He went over to an ornate walk-in fireplace surmounted by heraldic animal heads carved in stone and pulled a fraying red cord . |
| 6 | He was district secretary of the ITGWU and had stood on the NILP ticket a number of times before the split of 1949 , when he went over to the Irish Labour Party . |
| 7 | He went over to the biggest gift of them all , picked it up and plonked it , gratefully , in Mr Patten 's hands . |
| 8 | In the final between Bridgend and Gloucester , after a flash of brilliance from Glen Webbe towards the end when he went over for a magnificent try and another brilliant individual effort by him when he sent over Mark Jones , Bridgend clinched a 22–12 victory . |
| 9 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 10 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 11 | Then he went on to a merciless performance as an inarticulate Garda , who had been called to the school to deliver the annual lecture on road safety . |
| 12 | In 1921 he went on to the Technical College at Bandung , founded only the previous year . |
| 13 | The first few days were very trying for Alan as he went on to the new regime suddenly rather than gradually . |
| 14 | Then he went on to the Global the New Consumer , looking at ways and how consumer power could be used for ethical purposes . |
| 15 | He went on to the Royal Naval College , Dartmouth , for two years before poor eyesight ended plans for a naval career , and he returned to Eton . |
| 16 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
| 17 | He went on in a similar vein . |
| 18 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ he went on in a low voice , ‘ I lie awake at night thinking of what would happen to this place if you should die without issue . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ The next morning , ’ he went on in a flat emotionless voice , ‘ I rose late . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll ring for a taxi , ’ he went on in a flat tone . |
| 21 | ‘ It seems , ’ he went on in a calmer voice , ‘ that Rickie and Robin-Anne are among the sizeable minority of the population that is peculiarly prone to severe addiction . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Partly as a result of excessive leniency , ’ he went on in a familiar line of argument , ‘ there has been developed a pestiferous class of young ruffians who have caused great suffering to the respectable … to whom they have become a terror . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You 'll have other interests now , though , ’ he went on in a friendly , easy manner . |
| 24 | ‘ Now let's go over it once more , ’ he went on in an encouraging voice . |
| 25 | However he went on in an important passage to say that if contractual restrictions appear to be unnecessary or to be reasonably capable of enforcement in an oppressive manner then they must be justified before they can be enforced . |
| 26 | ‘ I was going to propose to you properly that weekend , ’ he went on after a long , blissful interval . |
| 27 | He went up to the two detectives and coughed delicately . |
| 28 | He went up to the next floor , where uniformed footmen and maids were dispensing coffee and cakes , biscuits and ices . |
| 29 | Odd , that , Mike thought as he went up to the third floor in the rattling old lift . |
| 30 | ‘ It could be inferred from the date of university graduation , provided of course , that he went up at the usual time . ’ |