Example sentences of "went [adv] [adv] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Juliet went slowly along to the nurses ' station , where the trolley of files was kept . |
| 2 | He sketched a slight , mocking bow and left her , and Merrill went slowly along to the cloakroom . |
| 3 | She went slowly along to the door she knew led into his study , and now it was Jenna 's brow that was creased in a frown . |
| 4 | She went slowly back to the kitchen . |
| 5 | She went slowly back to the drawing-room to collect her sketch-pad and pencils , and all the time she kept telling herself that this was a really stupid thing to do . |
| 6 | Then she dried her eyes on the hem of her petticoat and went slowly back to the house . |
| 7 | Mr Hellyer gave him every assistance and afterwards went thankfully down to the pub for a few beers . |
| 8 | The problem went right up to the London board of the company , and it decreed that , in future , sums of money of any size should be handled only by European expatriate employees of the company . |
| 9 | With the piece of toast in her hand she went right up to the window and pushed it further open . |
| 10 | Why are you working on that on the stairs and anyway I went right down to the bottom ! |
| 11 | I went right down to the sea 's edge , but the water was too cold for pleasure , so I retreated to the dry level and sat down to brush the sand off my feet and put on my shoes again . |
| 12 | I went right back to the top of the Wainui hill , but there was no trace of the pannier . |
| 13 | Initially she went right back to the age of four and , although she could not tell me what year it was , she did know that there was a queen called Victoria . |
| 14 | Went right back to the rank of probationer . |
| 15 | She went swiftly over to the door and had gone before he could answer . |
| 16 | ’ He seemed to sigh , and his eyes went starkly up to the spear-point . |
| 17 | So of course I went away down to the Station and the folk came off the Edinburgh train and that , and this gentleman and lady were left and of course I approached them , I says , by any chance , I says , are you Professor . |
| 18 | There was nobody in the passage , so Raoul went quickly up to the door of the dressing-room , opened it and went in . |
| 19 | When she stooped and retrieved her basket , and went rapidly back to the house with it , Patrick wished he had said something , that he had called out to her . |
| 20 | But this time Hardy went straight on to the attack , putting Holmes on the canvas with a right over the top for an initial count of seven . |
| 21 | Helen graduated in History at Somerville College , Oxford and then went straight on to the CPE and Finals Courses at the Lancaster Gate branch of the College of Law . |
| 22 | He fingered his tie , a particularly vivid one that day , and went straight on to the purpose of their meeting , which was to ask her to help Frank Shildon who was investigating aspects of the MacQuillan empire . |
| 23 | I went straight round to the Brigadier 's house and rang . |
| 24 | Returning to the Hilton , they went straight up to the suite . |
| 25 | All the children blessed themselves from the fount and went straight up to the altar . |
| 26 | Charlie went straight up to the room that he shared with Terry and put on a Fine Young Cannibals tape . |
| 27 | After that the question of Julia 's lunch was settled and she went straight back to the Campo San Maurizio to warn Annunziata that neither she nor David would be in for dinner . |
| 28 | Loretta 's mind went straight back to the boy in the photograph . |
| 29 | He surrendered the film , but , not surprisingly , he went straight back to the newspaper and the story was headline news . |
| 30 | And then I went straight back to the party . |