Example sentences of "[noun] went [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Ivan went home clutching Sylvie 's address in his hand , Sylvie left too . |
| 2 | The review went largely according to Murrie 's specifications , with Armstrong and , from November , his successor , David Hubback , pruning the committees and Bridges and Brook handling the procedural aspects . |
| 3 | No unpleasantness seems to have been caused , but in one instance the opposition went home giving their names for the records . |
| 4 | But the elephants went gaily dancing and trumpeting away over the mountains , through Roumania and Georgia , through Turkey , Iran , and Afghanistan , until they came to their native land . |
| 5 | Two guitars went mysteriously missing . |
| 6 | The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning . |
| 7 | The ale wife went away cackling and came back to serve both of them huge tankards slopping over with ale and a shared platter of meat mixed with onions and leeks swimming in a sea of grease . |
| 8 | Aggie went away thinking about what she had been told and she confided in Nellie Tanner once more . |
| 9 | One visitor went there expecting obfuscation , for I have read Sartre on art and think that Sartre on cricket would be just as illuminating . |
| 10 | Mimi did not appreciate what this meant to him and sent them away , but Jack went downstairs looking for them and signed . |
| 11 | Everyone in the stand went home saying the same thing — I 'd have got that one . |
| 12 | ‘ Ibrahim went there expecting to find the body , did n't he ? |
| 13 | Soon after that he and his sergeant went away carrying the manual of instruction that came with the computer monster . |
| 14 | The men went away chuckling . |
| 15 | When their advance guard was making a hazardous push to secure a new stronghold , the Persian warriors went forward carrying live cats in their arms . |