Example sentences of "[pron] went [adv] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 I went to this party at Mr Midwinter 's and it 's a wonderful house with footmen and things , and I went in just the sort of clothes I 'd wear for a party here in Helsinki .
2 I went swiftly down the hall to the front door , and eased its bolts open .
3 But he countered : ‘ The supporter was saying terrible things to me and I went back up the tunnel because I wanted to have a good look at the face of the person who was abusing me .
4 Almost , she went back up the stairs to give him what she had …
5 Well we went straight on the motorway
6 We went farther up the wasted beach , still finding interesting pieces of flotsam and finally coming to the rusted remnant I thought was a water-tank or a half-buried canoe , from a distance .
7 We went further down the slope to practise parachute landing falls and ground handling skills — everything you need to know before actually launching yourself off the side of a hill .
8 And it turned out to be this Pekinese and when we went down there the lady was lovely and er we we interviewed her and we saw the Pekinese and we saw the Pekinese carry flower pots everywhere .
9 We went back up the staircase and I hammered on the door .
10 Well they went round then the spring and collected all that from the farmers but the men that travelled the stallion went to the house first to see the mare was in foal .
11 If they did not reach the very poorest , they went further down the scale than most model buildings , and provided the sort of accommodation the poor were used to , despite the introduction of a guardian and a gate to keep the transients at bay and the tenants up to scratch .
12 When a they were sent home from we went home from this quarry then , and the everybody went home so the the were forty of us in altogether .
13 The Count of Flanders , Louis de Mâle , had only one child , his daughter Margaret , whose marriage was eagerly sought by both protagonists in the war , for with her went not only the County of Flanders itself with its substantial revenues but also Artois , Nevers , Rethel and the County of Burgundy .
14 He went straight up the stairs and a few minutes later came down carrying a parcel of his things .
15 He went lightly down the hatchway and was gone , reappearing in a moment holding a shackling chain on either end of which was a clumsy iron ring , hinged and padlocked .
16 He went quickly up the metal staircase , leaving Amanda entangled with a group below .
17 It was also useless to pretend that corruption at elections was one-sided ; the scale was far smaller than thirty years earlier , but it went on just the same in both parties .
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