Example sentences of "went [adv] [adv prt] [prep] 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 | The ladies and gentlemen went slowly out of the room , some protesting quietly that they had not seen enough of their dear relation . |
| 8 | Mr Hellyer gave him every assistance and afterwards went thankfully down to the pub for a few beers . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | With the piece of toast in her hand she went right up to the window and pushed it further open . |
| 11 | However he , he must of chosen the right place to go and er he went right up onto the hill and Mr got his shooting er and he bought the thing on the spot . |
| 12 | I went right up in the air . |
| 13 | so anyway he went right on until the Saturday and he said look , on the Friday they called us in and they said look we 're gon na take him to the ward I 'm afraid there 's nothing else we can do , just deteriorating and he said there 's no |
| 14 | Why are you working on that on the stairs and anyway I went right down to the bottom ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I went right back to the top of the Wainui hill , but there was no trace of the pannier . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Went right back to the rank of probationer . |
| 19 | She went swiftly over to the door and had gone before he could answer . |
| 20 | He motioned with his head to Antony , who nodded and went swiftly out of the room and up the stairs . |
| 21 | ’ He seemed to sigh , and his eyes went starkly up to the spear-point . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Now that was the time when first daylight on Bristol , and we heard the bombers go up , and I went home out on the tram car , and there were the young ones just screaming down into the city , I said , ’ good grief , those bombers have hit something ’ , and it was Filton Aeroplane , people had direct hits on shelters you see . |
| 24 | There was nobody in the passage , so Raoul went quickly up to the door of the dressing-room , opened it and went in . |
| 25 | A cold nod towards Sophie and she went quickly out of the room , leaving behind an uncomfortable silence . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Daniel went carefully back along the deck to the broken door . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |