Example sentences of "[pron] went [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , ’ I went on as he tried to interrupt , ‘ so as you do n't get lost if the sun goes in , you can paint the trees as you go with luminous paint . |
| 2 | That afternoon , while the same wind , now freshened , still blew across the island and off into the North Sea , Esmerelda and I went out as usual , and stopped off at the shed to pick up the dismantled kite . |
| 3 | I went in as usual , took off my greatcoat and tunic and tie and made some small pancakes and dipped them in boiling fat — used to take me a quarter of an hour every night . |
| 4 | He often struck me as the kind of wide boy one found in England right after the war , people who made deals of the spivvier sort and did n't care who went down as long as they went up . |
| 5 | She went through as her father bid her : hating , every day more and more hating the show she was , the part she had to take up , the curio she had become , beached on the suffocating shore of the Fish . |
| 6 | And I wonder , ’ she went on as Melissa murmured a polite and hypocritical response , ‘ if you 'd be so kind as to give me a lift to the school this morning ? |
| 7 | The sky clears in the childbirth sequence because of Shatov 's sublime murmurings about the arrival of a new human being , but also because the midwife has her sleeves rolled up , because she is attacking a difficult and strenuous professional job , organizing essentials , masterminding the whole exercise , scolding Marie Shatov who allowed Shatov to get between her and the family in which she was a governess ‘ with the egotistical object of marrying you , laughing at the distraught husband on his knees unable either to bear the sound or block his ears before the birth ; and when all is tidied up , ‘ after some pleasant–es about ‘ the happy couple' ’ which were not without a touch of contempt and superciliousness , she went away as well satisfied as before . ’ |
| 8 | She went back as she had come , fast asleep and docile , her face expressionless . |
| 9 | Next morning , when the glimmer in the skulls ' eyes had died away , she went off as before , flying in her mortar and rowing it with the pestle . |
| 10 | So we went ahead as planned : Beryl , Cathy Carne — you 've met Cathy ? |
| 11 | Oxford came next they went out as favourites and were confident of pulling home first … |
| 12 | The sun was just as hot , and the sea was just as wet , and the stars just as starry when he went away as when he was there . |
| 13 | ‘ You see , ’ he went on as though they had been talking all afternoon , ‘ I had no idea until this morning that you were in the same state as I. ’ |
| 14 | The colours , I mean , ’ he went on as she stiffened . |
| 15 | Do you hear me ? ’ he went on as she remained silent . |
| 16 | ‘ At least you left Fernando on good terms , ’ he went on as he pulled up in front of the stone steps of the mansion that Ruth had fled down a century ago . |
| 17 | Every time that he had been inside the Citadel he went home as soon as his day 's work was finished and scrubbed his body from toe to scalp . |
| 18 | When at last he went out as the dusk was gathering she was very glad to see him go . |
| 19 | He went back as directed , and found the man he had in mind , who was ploughing his family fields . |
| 20 | He maintains that it went straight as i die , whereas I think that it curled and dipped ( not to any great extent ) into the top right corner . |
| 21 | Our press date prevents us giving details of this run but it must have been quite a spectacle if it went ahead as reported , and would have provided a fitting finale to an outstanding season of operations . |
| 22 | Another possibility is that a woman had a bomb wired to her , and that it went off as she gave flowers to Mr Gandhi . |
| 23 | It went precisely as he wished . |
| 24 | Ever since you went away we have been unable to get the fire to burn ; even if we borrowed a light from the neighbours it went out as soon as we brought it in . " |