Example sentences of "went [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gray went on with the others meantime ; his lands lay in Angus , north of Tay . |
| 2 | Oh yes they did for , for the increase in traffic I mean that er that er went on over the years gradually creep , creep , creep on until the whole atmosphere of the place was er I do n't know improved should you say or not I do n't know whether it 's er well it certainly has n't improved but erm it changed , it was such a lovely little place really , and of course you could run across the road whenever you liked I mean we used to play in Street of picking out in a sweet shop window er a name be Cadbury 's or chocolate or something you 'd be standing across the road and you 'd be running backwards and forwards backwards and forwards , there was no sign of anyone getting run over cos there was nothing about , and when I was a kid going to the Bluecoat School I 'd run across that bridge every morning without looking right or left , because if anything had hit me , well nothing used to be coming you could see a tram coming but oh there was nothing else at that time in the morning oh no it was , would n't like to run across today . |
| 3 | I went on into the room where a middle-aged Moroccan woman lay sprawled on his bed , open-legged and completely naked . |
| 4 | But Steven had a b-i-g problem , because he had spent his whole life in Never Never , a land not best known for its grasp of real life , and his idea of what went on in the world outside was limited to the hazy notions he had picked up … from the movies . |
| 5 | A light went on in the house opposite . |
| 6 | Juliet went along to the kitchen where the kettle was usually boiling . |
| 7 | Blooming great fine statue of p and then you went down to the road where the Wolferton . |
| 8 | I enrolled for ‘ Art for Beginners ’ and later went down to the centre where the tutor had obtained a model for us from whom to do quick sketches — so I was in at the deep end . |
| 9 | Hob and Jack said goodbye and went down to the boats too . |
| 10 | ‘ Brian Williams went down on the ball once and had his head blatantly stamped on and he has a bad cut , ’ he added . |
| 11 | We went down into the crypt where the wooden hand of Capitaine Danjou lay in a glass case . |
| 12 | Periodically I went down into the warmth below , to write up my notes and check them over against the ship 's design plans , which Nils had produced for me before going off with Iain to talk to the Navy Yard people . |
| 13 | Wexford laughed and they went down in the lift together . |
| 14 | The four sets of parents went in to the Panel separately , although they were to be treated as one case . |
| 15 | Maggie went through to the kitchen where April was rolling pastry and Pet , her fourteen-year-old sister , paring and cutting up apples . |
| 16 | " Is he indeed , " muttered her father , and went through to the back where there was a newly planted orchard and herb garden . |
| 17 | After a short search they found a half brick made of concrete and went over to the water through . |
| 18 | She nodded mutely , and while she did as she was told he went over to the bed where Effie had begun to writhe and cry out , and her pains , which were erratic , had started again — that they were so erratic was another bad sign , Dr Neil quietly explained . |
| 19 | " If I went over to the hotel now and had supper , that would give you about an hour to find a man and get ready . |
| 20 | And then she went over to the attack again . |
| 21 | She went over to the shelf where she had left her drink , and stared down in dismay at the overturned glass , the shards of crystal glinting wickedly up at her in the dim light . |
| 22 | The thought of Milward cheered him up , and he got up and went over to the bookcase where the offending pamphlet was stored . |
| 23 | He went over to the spot where Allen had hidden , ‘ … and then moved from tree to tree until he reached the path about twenty paces ahead . |
| 24 | And nodding his head in agreement with that , Mr Wolski took his broom and went off down the path away from the Cages , for it saddened him more and more to see the eagles there . |
| 25 | He went off down the street just as McCrea 's flailing hand missed his jacket by six inches . |
| 26 | ‘ Fernand went off in the tractor soon after lunch , ’ said Sue . |
| 27 | Pooley deposited the tray in the Coffee Room and went up to the gallery where Fishbane was awaiting a summons . |
| 28 | I went up to the tower sometimes later in the evening for a talk , he had said I might . |
| 29 | Here , in an empty silence , he unpacked his bicycle panniers and went up to the pantry where the bulk of the xerox squatted amongst unsavoury tea-towels beside a tea-stained sink . |
| 30 | We went up onto the station again . |