Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] went [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So my mum went out but then she still had to read it all because I was under-age and she had to be there . |
| 2 | In the terrible pain and surprise of the moment , both my pistols went off and fell from my hands . |
| 3 | I began to feel myself being pulled further and further under the water , I screamed and swore but nobody seemed to hear or believe me and then my head went under and all I remember is a feeling of despair as I squeezed the tree trunk only to find that it simply crumbled in my hands . |
| 4 | That night my father went out after it , but he did something before he left . |
| 5 | Then my father went in and put his headstall on and led him out . |
| 6 | And my mam went there and she cut her down and everything you know . |
| 7 | My brother went my brother went yesterday as well . |
| 8 | As a result my mother went home and poured away all her stock . |
| 9 | Phoebe was her own age , near forty , and had been left behind in Wilson 's old house when her employers went home because she was ill with flu and unable to travel . |
| 10 | Almost senseless with terror , she was n't even aware that her screams went on and on . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , ’ she gasped , and , as flames of wanting started to flicker into life , her arms went up and around him , and she freely gave him her lips . |
| 12 | A kiss where she raised her lips to his , and he did not hold back from moving his head down to hers , and , as her heart started to sing , so her arms went up and around him . |
| 13 | Melanie hung cups on hooks on the dresser ; her arm went up and down , up and down . |
| 14 | When Lili grew up and the doctor died her mother went home and settled in Salzburg , selling Glockenturm beer mugs in a souvenir shop . |
| 15 | The worst episode of foul play was perpetrated by Southland lock Mark Tinnock , whose feet went up and down repeatedly in a tap-dancing motion on Lions ' flanker Richard Webster during a ruck . |
| 16 | She liked the way his mind went back and back in layers : how he tried to justify emotion with reason . |
| 17 | His head went back and he laughed at her mutinous expression , the glint in his eyes deepening , before leaning forward again and addressing her with quiet insistence . |
| 18 | But his distaste went deeper than irritation at an unwelcome complication to his inquiry , at the bizarre intrusion of irrationality into a job so firmly rooted in the search for evidence which would stand up in court , documented , demonstrable , real . |
| 19 | His executives went in and out of office like dogs at a fair , and so did his treasurers . |
| 20 | His medical went well until he revealed that he suffered from asthma and David pointed out to him that he would never cope with that particular job . |
| 21 | personally an and from er and the rest and he , he 's gone to this area and he 's looked and he , he 's seen and he may have interpreted this , or wanted to interpret it so that when his report went back that the , he was saying that we must get a move on to the people in the Party saying that we need to get involved now , we need to be in all these areas , we need to be helping things develop and , and being a part at the front . |
| 22 | His hand went forward as he spoke . |
| 23 | He scrutinised her closely as she lowered her legs to the floor and his hand went out as she stood . |
| 24 | His hand went out and cupped her breast crudely . |
| 25 | But then , with a sudden movement , his hand went back and something went speeding through the air . |
| 26 | Eventually Emerson got past Regazzoni and then Peterson whose car was more like a wrestling opponent than a smooth machine But just as Fittipaldi was beginning to think he might be able to make up Ickx 's fifteen-second lead , his gearbox went off and caught fire and Emerson made a hasty emergency exit . |
| 27 | Lowe says his company went further than its original plans for a 5,000-mile range aircraft because customers wanted it , and that the GV and its performance figures are not a paper exercise or design concept , but a wind-tunnel-proven reality . |
| 28 | They widened even more and his eyebrows went up and down , with an odd little flicker , as though with the effort of forcing his message silently across the air to Jinny . |
| 29 | People often prefer to rationalize after the event and convince themselves things went well and ‘ according to plan ’ , rather than compare what was actually achieved against the objective . |
| 30 | Your mood went down and you found yourself avoiding meeting friends and playing golf … . |