Example sentences of "[conj] she went [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose you actually managed to escape all the harmful effects of tobacco but your child took up smoking because you smoked and he or she went on to develop one of those dreadful ( and often fatal ) illnesses . |
| 2 | I 'm saying that Park , what the woman said that she went down to check the vans last summer |
| 3 | I could think of no response to this remark , so she went on to explain . |
| 4 | The new patient did n't need anything , so she went in to see Donna . |
| 5 | Then she decided that there might not be enough food so she went out to buy potatoes to put in the oven to bake an hour before the guests were due , She was lonely . |
| 6 | A driftwood carving , illuminated in a small alcove , caught her attention , and she went over to take a closer look . |
| 7 | He retired over there : his marriage had gone and so had his daughter 's ’ — and so had Magill 's first marriage she knew : marriages in the secret world had a high casuality rate — ‘ and she went over to keep house for him . ’ |
| 8 | On the dresser , there was a fluted crystal vase , filled with sprays of beautifully scented freesias , and she went over to sniff them appreciatively . |
| 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 | ‘ You wo n't have to for long , ’ Nora assured her , and she went on to explain her idea of hunting all the way home . |
| 11 | And she went on to explain to him how they would now have to hasten what had previously been a very leisure long-term affair , at least in her mind . |
| 12 | His name is Mr William Charles Francis ; age 26 ; occupation journalist ; religion Church of England ; next-of-kin father ; addresses of both in the Admission Book ; admitted to Casualty at 10.20 A.M. — ’ and she went on to tell us all I had heard from Humber . |
| 13 | ‘ We 're all fine , there 's no damage to the building and we 've been able to continue broadcasting without interruption , ’ she assured him , her voice sharp as resentment rose , and she went on to inform him of the decision she had taken . |
| 14 | Matilda said , and she went out to wash the soot off her hands . |
| 15 | Unfortunately for him , his feelings were not reciprocated and she went off to work in America . |
| 16 | And she went off to look for Moominpappa to ask him to put up two more beds — very , very small ones . |
| 17 | But a perverse urge to take advantage of his rare willingness to be seen out with her made her bite back the words , and she went off to discard her shorts in favour of a slim straight dress , the fine cotton-knit a subtle sage green . |
| 18 | And she went down to check in the winter time and she said your van was really dry . |
| 19 | I think if she went in to live in the back woods , you know , way beyond |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Mary Toogood won the Yorkshire County Championship for a first time in 1932 , while she went on to represent her county on no fewer than 99 occasions . |
| 22 | Tom Tremayne had seen to that and Liza , irresponsible and hedonistic as she was , could not quite see herself leaving Harriet holding the baby while she went off to undertake some kind of training . |
| 23 | This was Elisabeth Lee ; she invited us down to look round while she went off to collect her child . |
| 24 | She looked at the cold cup of coffee on the table , and left it there while she went in to shower and put on some clothes , shorts and a T-shirt and tennis shoes . |
| 25 | After the two men had shaken hands she thankfully escaped , leaving them to talk while she went out to prepare the treatment-room for the first of the morning 's patients . |
| 26 | Nevertheless a 1914 government report cited the case of a woman found guilty of cruelty for locking her children up in one room while she went out to work for 10/ a week . |
| 27 | Cos after she went there to see me , you spoil him . |
| 28 | I do not know whether she went on to have a family — but I do know that there was now nothing to prevent her doing so . |
| 29 | She and Grubb were together in the team that won the Nations Cup in Washington , before she went on to take the Toronto World Cup round . |
| 30 | They will point you in the right direction , they were quite bullish last year about Salsevills chances in the book when it was published , before she went on to win the erm thousand guineas . |