Example sentences of "[noun] went [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coaches and four and post chaises went thundering by in a lather of horses , their occupants cheering and whooping as each milestone was passed . |
| 2 | So the mermaids spun the wheel until there was a great funnel-hole in the sea , and the fisherman 's boat went riding down to the sea-king 's palace . |
| 3 | You then say that when the hotelier went to wake up everyone for breakfast he had a big surprise , for in one bed was all the kings , in another was all the queens , in another all the aces and in the other all the jacks . |
| 4 | He was a close friend of Sir Thomas Fairfax ( later third Baron Fairfax of Cameron , q.v. ) and travelled in his entourage to London on 18 February 1645 when Fairfax went to take up his command of the New Model Army . |
| 5 | The car went racing on while the friends tried to tidy up the mess . |
| 6 | Isabel , backing further into the shadows , dared to breathe again when the soldier went to pick up the ale-cups . |
| 7 | He asked the mother the child 's weight , worked out the dose and Kathleen went to draw up the drug and get the Flamazine ointment . |
| 8 | Blue magnesium flares went spiralling up into the chilly night . |
| 9 | Angie went flying off , my pens went everywhere ! |
| 10 | City 's unbeaten run went crashing down today when Shenley and Leyton put paid to their chances of further progress in the South Midland League 's Challenge Trophy . |
| 11 | Maud went rushing off down the corridor , but Mildred stopped and looked out of the window to see if there was any evidence of fire . |
| 12 | My feet went numb down on the mud . |
| 13 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 14 | I spoke to him while Pam went to pick up her son . |
| 15 | Forever Onward ! shouted me , and the man at the bus-stop went spinning round and round trying to reach the correct change in his left-side back pocket with his right had . |
| 16 | RAINE WENT FLYING ON TO HER KNEES |
| 17 | Tom went to pull off his vest . |
| 18 | The band went ran off in tears apparently . |
| 19 | There was a smell of damp leaves and moss , and everywhere the splash of water went whispering about . |
| 20 | The water went sluicing out of the house into the garden . |
| 21 | Rory straightened his tie , and with his whisky still burning in his throat , and now his stomach too , he moved along to the gap in the curtains and slid through , back into the ballroom , where people sat drinking at long wooden tables and groups of dancers went whirling round in complicated , ever-changing patterns , all flowing dresses and clasping hands and big red sweaty faces and white shirts and ties and narrow trousers or — even worse — kilts . |
| 22 | The demes were organized into three groups ( or trittyes ) , coastal , in land and city , and these were artificially aggregated into bigger units called tribes , phylai : a trittys of coastal , a trittys of inland and a trittys of city demes went to make up one of the ten tribes of Attica , each of which sent fifty councillors to Athens . |
| 23 | Rose went scuttling off to intercept Dieter ; she grabbed him by the hand and drew him towards the tea-table , her bird-like voice rising above the general chatter as she told him what had happened . |
| 24 | Do you remember when Gordon went rushing through when he 'd got his whistles out ? |
| 25 | New loans went to pay off the interest on earlier loans rather than on buying new farm machinery or modernising farming methods . |
| 26 | Arsenal could also have had a penalty when Campbell went crashing down as Forrest challenged him in the box for a Wright through-pass , but the referee dismissed their claims . |
| 27 | The fish were feeding ravenously , and several times when I was landing or unhooking fish the indicator on my other rod went sailing up . |
| 28 | ‘ What I mean is , they probably had some sort of … lover 's quarrel , Gebrec went storming out in a rage and charged up to the belvedere to cool off . |
| 29 | Nutty went to round up the others with the good news and returned to find their new trainer surrounded by an admiring crowd . |
| 30 | Madra went to build up the fire . |