Example sentences of "he went [adv] [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 | When he could stand the silence no longer he went briskly into the other room . |
| 5 | He went over to a flowerbed and felt around in the mud . |
| 6 | He went over to an ornate walk-in fireplace surmounted by heraldic animal heads carved in stone and pulled a fraying red cord . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | In 1921 he went on to the Technical College at Bandung , founded only the previous year . |
| 11 | The first few days were very trying for Alan as he went on to the new regime suddenly rather than gradually . |
| 12 | Then he went on to the Global the New Consumer , looking at ways and how consumer power could be used for ethical purposes . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He went on in a similar vein . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The next morning , ’ he went on in a flat emotionless voice , ‘ I rose late . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll ring for a taxi , ’ he went on in a flat tone . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You 'll have other interests now , though , ’ he went on in a friendly , easy manner . |
| 21 | ‘ Now let's go over it once more , ’ he went on in an encouraging voice . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ I was going to propose to you properly that weekend , ’ he went on after a long , blissful interval . |
| 24 | I thought at first that he was merely taking an open-air path to his own bedroom , but he went straight past the open door at the end of his sleeping car , and straight on past the next car also . |
| 25 | he went straight through the fucking two of the two er telephone boxes . |
| 26 | ‘ It could be inferred from the date of university graduation , provided of course , that he went up at the usual time . ’ |
| 27 | You could pick up a seat by knowing the right people , having gone to the right school or being thought to be worth a few thousand — almost the first question put to the prospective MP for Richmond , Sir George Harvie-Watt , when he went up before the local selection committee in 1937 was whether he would subscribe £700 to the local association . |
| 28 | He went home with a single man whose mantelpiece was crowded with framed family photos — partners , holidays , weddings , babies , graduations , christenings ; the man ( who was gorgeous ) told Boy that he worked in a photo processing lab , and that none of the photos were of his own family or lovers , but were all stolen . |
| 29 | Having got to Bristol , he went home for a short holiday and died . |
| 30 | ‘ Today he went out with a big score on the board and 15 overs remaining . |