Example sentences of "[pron] went [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went outside to look for her . |
| 2 | I went outside to change the cylinder — the same sort as used on most small camping-stoves — and began to unscrew the burner . |
| 3 | So then I went secretly to have an abortion , and my mother-in-law found out about that too . |
| 4 | And if I visited my grandfather I went upstairs to see him in his rooms and I came downstairs to visit my grandmother . ’ |
| 5 | I went upstairs to see the bloke in my bed and I thought this is lucky it was three bloody dogs in your garden when I went out the other night . |
| 6 | Erm I come in , and I went upstairs to see if he were in bed or not ? |
| 7 | After that , I went upstairs to read the hand-outs we 'd been given . |
| 8 | the bathroom window all wide open when I went upstairs to bath , I thought I , I . |
| 9 | I went away to do nursing , and then I came back here . |
| 10 | The next was a black cocker spaniel , and the third a springer spaniel which I trained to retrieve and took with me whenever I went away to shoot . |
| 11 | My dear Theo , I wrote to you already early this morning , then I went away to go on with a picture of a garden in the sunshine . |
| 12 | And a call came over the radio that there was a problem with one of the pumps downstairs , so seeing I had nothing better to do at that time I went downstairs to give them a hand . |
| 13 | I went downstairs to demand supper . |
| 14 | I went downstairs to help the Binkworthys in with their bags , and also to get a look at them as I was mildly curious , not to mention nosey . |
| 15 | And I just went along with I went inside to get a cup of tea . |
| 16 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 17 | I went there to lay a ghost . |
| 18 | He must have thought I went there to take fold up routes ! |
| 19 | It was by accident that I went there to study English . |
| 20 | I went there to find out . ’ |
| 21 | I went there to try and find you to see if you knew anything about Oliver , but you 'd already left . |
| 22 | And why I went there to buy them , was because it was the same climate as , and the trees , there was no setback in the plants do you see , they were starting growing straight off cos they 'd been , was the same climate . |
| 23 | and I went across to see how she was and he says I 'm expecting her home today , that were Thursday , so that was |
| 24 | I went across to talk to Jim Rosenthal for ITV . |
| 25 | We climbed far enough to find some specimens of the Mount Cook lily ( which is n't a lily at all , but a giant buttercup found only at altitude in this part of the South Island ) , and while the others rested I went across to investigate a steep track up a snow-filled gully . |
| 26 | They granted the second subsidy only on condition that the king himself went abroad to try to bring an end to the war . |
| 27 | It was Ashenden who went upstairs to knock on the door of Room 46 . |
| 28 | Naturally , it was mainly the best dancers who went abroad to work . |
| 29 | Berlin was a particular centre of discontent because of the large number of young men who went there to escape conscription in West Germany itself . |
| 30 | Then she went upstairs to tell Giovanna that she thought she would not be able to stay for her Italian lesson , because she felt so ill , and took herself painfully back across the Grand Canal to her temporary home . |