Example sentences of "[pron] went [adv] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if I visited my grandfather I went upstairs to see him in his rooms and I came downstairs to visit my grandmother . ’ |
| 2 | And a call came over the radio that there was a problem with one of the pumps downstairs , so seeing I had nothing better to do at that time I went downstairs to give them a hand . |
| 3 | And why I went there to buy them , was because it was the same climate as , and the trees , there was no setback in the plants do you see , they were starting growing straight off cos they 'd been , was the same climate . |
| 4 | Remembering the cheque , she went upstairs to get it , she flattened it out and stared at the signature . |
| 5 | Why was it , Sally-Anne thought when she went forward to take it , that this pitiful sum seemed more precious to her than her huge allowance which she could claim any day she wished ? |
| 6 | Smiling shyly , she went forward to meet them . |
| 7 | When she went downstairs to make herself some toast it was still very dark , although it was eight o'clock and she could hear the children talking in their room . |
| 8 | Then she went downstairs to find her mother . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She went often to see his family . |
| 12 | Gratefully , she went across to take their order . |
| 13 | Early in the evening she went home to get her brown envelope . |
| 14 | Cos after she went there to see me , you spoil him . |
| 15 | No one went there to enjoy themselves . |
| 16 | We went below to plot our rebellious strategy . |
| 17 | ‘ If Gebrec was upset or worried about something and just wanted to be alone to think things over , ’ said Jack , ‘ he might have gone up to the belvedere , or down by the river where we went yesterday to do our painting . ’ |
| 18 | Of course this picture was taken at Tennessee , right before we went overseas to start our bombing missions so that the aeroplane behind us course does n't have a name , was one that was used for training . |
| 19 | They took that first thing before they went upstairs to wake her up and and she did n't know who it was , well she looked up and well it just took her breath away and then she tried to wake her husband up , cos she did n't like that , when he got up , he chased them . |
| 20 | She saw Vincent 's father as he went upstairs to confront his son . |
| 21 | Leonora stared after him , stricken , as he went upstairs to pack his belongings . |
| 22 | He went upstairs to find her handbag . |
| 23 | Mahmoud was n't there when he arrived , so he went inside to buy his stamps and then came out to use the wet roller hanging against the wall . |