Example sentences of "[noun pl] as [pron] went " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The water clashed in her ears as she went down and down . |
| 2 | Summer in the country , was the toast echoing in Diane 's ears as she went back inside ; and she shuddered , and wondered if she could think up something really cutting to say the first time one of them tried to treat her like a servant . |
| 3 | They had to take their places on a enormous swing ; once seated it was lowered from the flies until the audience could only see their legs as they went through their act . |
| 4 | One man was shot four times in the legs as he went for a walk . |
| 5 | His attorney 's girlfriend was holding on to his legs as he went through the things that were wrong with his life , in broken English . |
| 6 | Their reward was an encounter against New Zealand , but the All Blacks ' strength and experience proved too much for the Koreans as they went down 14–0 . |
| 7 | He would storm off upstairs , banging his feet on the steps as he went , groaning ‘ For cripes ' sakes ’ . |
| 8 | A and it was down steps as you went in . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd have done that anyway , whoever you were , ’ he returned dismissively , but derision glinted in his eyes as he went on , ‘ What 's worrying you , Maria ? |
| 10 | Alex James in the 1930s had not been averse to appearing at the odd night-club , but Best 's moves were tracked by a posse of desperate journalists as he went from bed to boutique , from discothèque to dressing-room . |
| 11 | Bristol City conceded two late goals as they went down 2–0 at home to Cosenza . |
| 12 | Dorothy George , after describing the " roastbeef " of old England , retained her rose-coloured spectacles as she went on to an extraordinarily generous view of the Poor Law . |
| 13 | Dog at his heels as he went off down the road . |
| 14 | And leaping into the saddle he raced back to Grimspound , Nero at full stretch , the Devil laughing and snapping at his heels as he went . |
| 15 | There used to be a lot of nice shops as you went through Broadmarsh as well . |
| 16 | The man stumbled forward onto the bridge , then got up and trudged on again , wiping his dirtied hands against his thighs as he went and glancing up briefly , fearfully , as the big house loomed over him . |
| 17 | ‘ One moment , ’ Frau Nordern said , placing a well aimed dart between the Sergeant 's broad , grey-clad shoulders as he went into an inner office . |
| 18 | I think people in the British churches , and probably outside them , twenty or thirty years ago lived in a rather secure world and they understood that God was on the whole on the side of the British Empire and the missionaries as they went out to civilize other places , and that was true also of the other European forms of God . |
| 19 | I mean er you know , I I was went in as a mechanical fitter and er stayed as such , getting sort of bigger and more responsibl bilities as I went Grew up . |
| 20 | They ate less and less , never venturing outside the villa , the physical aspect of their relationship consuming them both as Damian began to take her beyond her new-found sensuality , smashing barriers as he went , teaching her everything about her body and his until she thrilled to the power of knowing how to touch and kiss him to make him breathless with ecstasy , whispering incoherent , urgent words of encouragement to her until they both fell into their usual sleep of pleasurable exhaustion , completely united by the passion that raged just as highly between them now as it ever had from the very beginning . |
| 21 | They fell to the floor and rolled across the tiles , making little clattering noises as they went . |
| 22 | She began to pull all her daughter 's clothes from the wardrobe , searching the pockets as she went . |
| 23 | As the rain continued to pelt down into the Sunday , Fijian confidence hit hew highs as they went in search of a record third successive title . |
| 24 | Hotel coupons paved the way for package holidays because tourists paid for facilities in advance in their own currency , in their own country instead of hunting for somewhere to stay and paying hotel bills as they went . |
| 25 | Asking directions as she went , she entered what she realised was Moira Russell 's office , when a woman in her early thirties , slim and immaculate , raised her head from what she was doing and enquired pleasantly , ‘ Miss Everett ? ’ |
| 26 | There is evidence , however , of a steady development in oral tradition between the death of Count Roland in a Basque ambush in 778 and the song about Roland which inspired the Normans as they went into battle in 1066 . |
| 27 | There were five barges moored abreast here , and we climbed over the first four , greeting the startled crews as we went . |
| 28 | And as I had this urge to correct manuscripts as I went along , and could n't read his handwriting , and did n't know the first thing about Roman Britain , you can imagine he felt obliged to educate me . |
| 29 | They carefully replaced lights and vases and other bits and pieces as they went along . |
| 30 | I watched in alarm as the rapidly rotating bundle crashed down the slope , jettisoning bits and pieces as it went . |