Example sentences of "went [adv prt] into the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The calculated , dictated fairness that the ration book represented went on into the new decade , and when we moved from Hammersmith to Streatham Hill in 1951 there were medicine bottles of orange juice and jars of Virol to pick up from the baby clinic for my sister . |
| 2 | Slipping off her muddy shoes , Leonora went on into the big living-room , every nerve on edge as she crept silently across the familiar worn carpet towards the seductive warmth from the stove , but there was still no sign of Penry . |
| 3 | Furious , Wilson went down into the freezing kitchen , where the well banked-up fire had not quite died down , and poked it vigorously until it began to burn up . |
| 4 | They cleared the thick , wooded hills of Oxford and went down into the open countryside . |
| 5 | He went through into the marbled bathroom and stood there in the shower , letting the cold , hard jets of water purge him . |
| 6 | Carson tucked the diaries under his arm and went through into the empty lounge . |
| 7 | Dreamer went out into the still night , wading through the snow . |
| 8 | She stayed near him till he slept , went out into the dark hall , switched on the light with pride and with the knowledge of what that little act meant , what it had cost , would cost ; she pressed a tiny switch on the wall , and electrons obediently flowed through cables , because the woman in the Electricity had so ordered it |
| 9 | He went out into the dark night , the wind and the rain . |
| 10 | His fingers were bloody and in his eyes there was such despair that I could not stand it and went out into the filthy courtyard ’ . |
| 11 | He took Hasan 's hand and went out into the clear light of April . |
| 12 | Allen picked up the sack and slung it over his shoulder and they all three went out into the open air . |
| 13 | He took the Mascot Missile 's keys from the tray in the hall and went out into the driving rain . |
| 14 | Taking the lanthorn from the shelf , she lit the tallow candle-stub from the fire 's dying embers , then went out into the hard brilliance of the moonlight . |
| 15 | They went out into the cold afternoon . |
| 16 | Following her pointing finger , they went out into the raw desert , and dug in the sand . |
| 17 | Between two classes I went out into the beautiful gallery on the first floor , open to the cloisters and the courtyard below . |
| 18 | Together they went out into the back garden . |
| 19 | Then went back into the outer cellar . |
| 20 | So I went back into the spare room , I was doing some ironing which was on the you know and the next minute the phone went ! |
| 21 | The ILP certainly broke up , but most of its members went back into the Labour Party . |
| 22 | She was all but out of the door on her way to Oxford Street when , incredibly , she found herself shaking , so much so that she went back into the tiny bedroom and lay down . |
| 23 | Ross , on his return to Britain , went back into the new route business as an outsider to the establishment scene — a position I know only too well . |
| 24 | She smoothed her hair and straightened the shoulder-straps of her black camisole , then with an effort composed her face into an expression of detached amusement as she went back into the other room . |
| 25 | I snatched his sliding door open and went back into the arctic cold where I punched the button to summon the lift . |
| 26 | I picked up my bag and went back into the cold street . |
| 27 | He scrambled upright and went back into the empty flat . |
| 28 | ‘ Be our guest , ’ said Noolan and went back into the social room leaving the large figure , head wreathed in cigarette smoke , seated at the top of the big committee sized table . |
| 29 | He went back into the smoke-logged coach on several occasions . ’ |