Example sentences of "[pron] went [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't remember I think it was Louise who br I went up to talk to her , and the question was , which of follow which of the following is not a swimming stroke and you have butterfly , breast stroke , bird crawl . |
| 2 | So er I thought a alright then , so I I went off like and I just heard erm and said , I went up to see her mother like and , I told her mother about it , like and that and erm her mother says different now , that she came round to see me at the time to tell , to give me a telling off like over her friend . |
| 3 | And Pete … well , I went up to change , and you know … |
| 4 | When I went up to investigate it the floor caved in beneath me and I fell into the middle of all those nasty plants . ’ |
| 5 | When you and I went up to look after them ? |
| 6 | Granpa told me to ‘ shhh ’ and did n't smile again until I went up to get the arithmetic prize , a box of coloured crayons that were damned-all use to anyone . |
| 7 | When I went up to check on him a few minutes ago , his bed was empty and cold ; it had n't been slept in . |
| 8 | So I went back , dressed , and off I went , called the and I went up to try and beat it off . |
| 9 | I went round to see Scotty Moore in Nashville . |
| 10 | It must have been about the fourth or fifth time I went round to see him . |
| 11 | ‘ There was a young man round at Mr Taczek 's flat when I went round to see him . ’ |
| 12 | We went in the Gra Grand just done the lounge at the Grand and when we had our first car and I went round to see mother and I said come on , we 'll go up to the , take you up to the Grand and have a drink . |
| 13 | that 's not bad and I went round to see Helen to see if she wanted this one for baby Anna but she said this one there is another one in there , erm |
| 14 | So what I did , I went round to tell the guy , John he was the sales guy at the local Vo , Audi-Volkswagen place , and I said , John , I want to buy Barbara a car . |
| 15 | I went outside to look for her . |
| 16 | I went outside to change the cylinder — the same sort as used on most small camping-stoves — and began to unscrew the burner . |
| 17 | So then I went secretly to have an abortion , and my mother-in-law found out about that too . |
| 18 | And if I visited my grandfather I went upstairs to see him in his rooms and I came downstairs to visit my grandmother . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Erm I come in , and I went upstairs to see if he were in bed or not ? |
| 21 | After that , I went upstairs to read the hand-outs we 'd been given . |
| 22 | the bathroom window all wide open when I went upstairs to bath , I thought I , I . |
| 23 | I went over to see , and a girl from the shop pointed eagerly towards a stone wall and a tree in which two boys were climbing . |
| 24 | I left it a while but they did n't break up , so I went over to see what was going on . |
| 25 | ‘ I went over to see them in a tea dance one Friday and they said it was like they were being auditioned . |
| 26 | Feeling curious , I went over to say hello . |
| 27 | ‘ When Terry was coaching Barcelona and I went over to visit him , he asked me to bring a few pounds of good old English pork sausages because he was missing his bangers and mash for tea , ’ he explained . |
| 28 | I went over to comfort her but she shooed me away . |
| 29 | I went over to have a look , but found the jungle impenetrable . |
| 30 | Noticing a tiny oratory-style church standing alone in a muddy field , I went over to have a look , leaving Gerry in the car . |