Example sentences of "[pers pn] go away [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | I went away to do nursing , and then I came back here . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | After a few days , her hunger becomes so great that she goes away to feed , leaving her young in the charge of others . |
5 | In the middle , she went away to make tea , and brought it back with digestive biscuits she had broken into quarters . |
6 | But she seemed to have got over her momentary embarrassment , so he smiled at her as warmly as he could , and she went away to eat her solitary lunch in the small bed-sitting-room alongside the nursery , which was the only part of the Unit that was n't monitored with cameras and tape recorders . |
7 | But since she knew that the Czech word for ‘ please ’ was ‘ prosím ’ she was hoping that the polite woman 's parting phrase had been the equivalent of an English ‘ Excuse me , please ’ while she went away to hand her card over to Vendelin Gajdusek . |
8 | She 's done a bunk , Mr Trilby said to himself and he went away to inform the School Governors that the Headmistress had apparently vanished . |
9 | But he went away to look and dates and the address of Evelyn Bond were provided . |
10 | While he went away to phone Bucharest the three stood around the car , feeling like criminals awaiting sentence . |
11 | He had already had his own and he went away to play the harpsichord for twenty minutes . |