Example sentences of "[subord] [noun prp] went [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where Chartier went further was in asking whether nobility was something which came to a man by virtue of his birth ( and could therefore be inherited ) or whether it was accorded in recognition of merit ? |
| 2 | Somebody stepped down from the street and peered through the glass door but seeing Wycliffe went away again . |
| 3 | We both wobbled then , through hours of stones and velvet dusk to the hut , where Sal went straight to bed , leaving me with two soups , two teas and a bottle of wine to deal with . |
| 4 | There was nobody in the passage , so Raoul went quickly up to the door of the dressing-room , opened it and went in . |
| 5 | The chamber was empty so Corbett went straight to his room , threw himself down upon his cot and fell into a deep and dreamless sleep . |
| 6 | She remained in the room for a long while but although Carrie went there twice with tea for them , she found them talking in the Romany language and did not understand anything they said . |
| 7 | He explained his change of mind by pointing to the danger that if Stockholm went ahead without the Allied socialists , the case for the Allied war effort would be lost by default : |
| 8 | The feeling that if William went now , by himself , and she stayed , that would be it . |
| 9 | it 's a pity cos I mean if we put , if , if Billy went away on I could use it |
| 10 | The little goblin , who was terribly afraid of what the king of the vookodlaks would do to him if Yanek went home to look after his grandfather , gave him a great push . |
| 11 | Fleischmann and Pons knew that they had no hopes of completing their work by May and that they could lose the race if Jones went public so soon . |
| 12 | He warned that if Slovenia went ahead with secession , EC support would be withdrawn — leading to the total economic collapse of Yugoslavia as early as September . |
| 13 | She would n't even mind if Gloria went away and left her . |
| 14 | Well not till Derek went away Up There . |
| 15 | While Penry went upstairs she took his tray into the study , then went into the other room with her own . |
| 16 | The three disciples were told to pray while Jesus went further into the garden to pray by himself . |
| 17 | Iris stuck her fork in the earth and trundled off down the garden with her barrow while Melissa went indoors , reported her problem to the telephone engineers and wandered back to the kitchen . |
| 18 | After Maggie went away Moran took up his old habit of going to the post office . |
| 19 | It never came to trial , since Charley died soon after Rose went home . |
| 20 | Rachel refrained from adding that the presence of David Markham at Conway House could well be the deciding factor as to whether Jennifer went there or not . |
| 21 | Well I do n't know whether Nick went today cos I see his car . |
| 22 | Before Julie went home the District Nurse was contacted and asked to redress the wound , and to remove the sutures on the 7th post-operative day . |
| 23 | Fortunately , when Clytus went aground , the master and crew were able to scramble ashore through the breakers on Barassie 's sandy beach , and the vessel was recovered undamaged a few days later . |
| 24 | As Faraday went deeper into electromagnetism , he began to leave his contemporaries behind ; his work was on the boundary between inductive experimental science and deductive physics , and failed to fit easily into either category . |
| 25 | There was only a very slight frown on her brow when Fernando went inside to bring out the paella . |
| 26 | Ann Butler had written to Uncle Nathan in Leeds to say that when Sarah went there to act as bridesmaid to her sister Christiana , she would stay on to be his new housekeeper . |
| 27 | Ian had gone when Sophie went downstairs , and Joanna was sitting looking very pensive . |
| 28 | When Ivan went home clutching Sylvie 's address in his hand , Sylvie left too . |
| 29 | He was not so simple as to believe that the danger would be over when Aldhelm went home frustrated , but what followed he would have to encounter and parry when it came . |
| 30 | When Tallis went quickly to the long-house , where Wynne-Jones had gone for extra safety , she found him huddled in a corner , shaking violently , his body wrapped in skins and his bird-feather cloak . |