Example sentences of "[v-ing] and go [adv] " in BNC.

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1 I put him back in his stable again , complete with an enormous amount of bandaging and went home to wait for my vet to phone with the results of the x-rays .
2 Once I did this without looking where I was going and went straight into the backs of nine armourers who were ambling towards the Mess for supper , and had to be disentangled from my machine , picked up and dusted off , which they did with all the gleeful enthusiasm which Thursby reserved for drawing his heavy black frontal lines on our neatly drawn charts .
3 She came down with this summer flu everyone 's getting and went home before I got in .
4 He must have taken a short cut that she had n't noticed on her way down , as they arrived back at the house sooner than she was expecting and went straight to the veranda , where Faye still lay on the lounger , enjoying a long drink of iced water .
5 She guessed that , during her four months away , there had been staff coming and going as always .
6 The four healthy children lay sound asleep , their breaths coming and going almost visibly in the light from the street lamp that came through the flowered cotton curtains .
7 The negative effects , however , were the less welcome members of society coming and going quite freely .
8 When his hand found the rounded contour of her bare breast under her blouse she shuddered convulsively against him , pressing her body forward , her breath coming and going quickly as he rubbed the raised bud of her nipple .
9 Alyssia 's body was still and she was conscious of her breath coming and going quickly .
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