Example sentences of "[adv] went [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only went upstairs to get sort of washed and dressed , after the weekend , you have nobody around and er , oh eh , it started bleeding . |
| 2 | I only went once to visit the Greens and then I was collecting money for the Missionary Fund to which most people contributed a copper or two , with young Mrs Thwaites from the neighbouring farm to us , High Birk Hatt . |
| 3 | ‘ We only went there to see what British Waterways were doing , ’ said Ian . |
| 4 | ‘ Thought its bum was out the window so went outside to have a look . ’ |
| 5 | So saying , she bustled Theda back behind the curtain , bidding her change quickly that they might visit a milliner , and prudently went away to confer with Antoinette . |
| 6 | There was a powerful stench of urine also , as if he no longer went outside to perform his natural functions . |
| 7 | By the end of each track , so many fleeting emotions and ideas have slithered past , only a sparse recollection of what just went before remains . |
| 8 | When the war ended the OSS was busted up : they hung on to a few units — there was a whole alphabet soup of SI , SSU , X-2 , CIG , for a time — but most of us just went home to build a brave new world with law books and Shakespeare . |
| 9 | One woman walked for an hour through the snow to catch the bus to Skipton , waited for three and a half hours to meet Hannah , and still went home smiling . |
| 10 | A young voice answered the telephone , a lad , but willingly went away to get his father . |
| 11 | He , however , refused to fight back and just kept on doing his best ( even though he often went home upset ) . |
| 12 | Nell had said she would meet me this Sunday morning in the coffee shop in the Great Hall , and had told me that the crews often went there to wait for train time . |
| 13 | During his 18-month ordeal Ryan regularly went home covered in cigarette burns and bruises . |
| 14 | When Bathsheba ran out of the house the previous night , Troy first replaced the coffin lid , then went upstairs to lie on his bed and wait miserably for the morning . |
| 15 | She bent and quickly swept the powder up again , then went outside to empty it into the dustbin . |
| 16 | We then went outside to practise singing it . |
| 17 | And every second month they the occasional keeper the relieving keeper came out local man he came out to make up the two men then went ashore to cover the cover the the reliefs like that . |
| 18 | The Unionist leader then went immediately to see Lloyd George , with whom he had conferred before his visit to the Palace . |
| 19 | And being successful in that , we then went forward to seek its application . |
| 20 | I climbed down through the sails , then went below to tie up my wound . |
| 21 | Having sorted out Barry 's clothes , she then went home to sort out the miners ' strike . |
| 22 | Women did their shopping , gossiped , then went home to prepare the Sunday meals for their families . |
| 23 | Thousands of foreigners from all parts of the world were so concerned about events in Spain that they actually went there to fight in the war , many of them never to return . |
| 24 | I never went there to stay , but I was always glad when he visited us at Canonmills . |
| 25 | I never went though did you ? |