Example sentences of "they went [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They went on over a long period and affected many children who had been entrusted to the defendants for care and help . |
| 2 | They went carefully along a dark passage to some stairs , then suddenly stopped . |
| 3 | She asked him to come to her room so as not to overhear any more , and then they went downstairs in an express lift : a glass-and-gilt beetle that hurtled the twenty-eight floors in nine and a half seconds . |
| 4 | suffered their fifth defeat in a row when they went down to a narrow 17–15 defeat in the Shield at home to Knottingley . |
| 5 | suffered their fifth defeat in a row when they went down to a narrow 17–15 defeat in the Shield at home to Knottingley . |
| 6 | ‘ I tried the bell at the front , ’ Pete said as they went in through a whitewashed scullery . |