Example sentences of "[pers pn] went [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's all that Christian offered me when I went up there to lay out that poor young wife of his . |
| 2 | I do not know for certain why I went up there to watch them doing it . |
| 3 | When I went round there to take the saw back she was er you know her little tail |
| 4 | I just caught a glimpse of you both through one of the windows , but Lewis had already started to come back inside when I went out there to fetch you back . ’ |
| 5 | A competent woman officer told me first , then I went down alone to see Barbara . |
| 6 | Yes , she said but er when I went down there to check after you 'd gone , she said erm yours was erm the driest of them sort of thing . |
| 7 | When I 'd had a bite and patrolled the area , I went back home to sit on the garage roof and have a leisurely wash . |
| 8 | Even if you do claim you went up there to do him in ! |
| 9 | She went on excitedly to explain how her canoe would be arriving in a week or two and she would then telephone the harbour master at Sharpness to find out when the next big bore was due . |
| 10 | It was all too obvious what her plot was and she went straight away to see Mrs Browning , resolved to ask outright if Ferdinando was to go to France and if so to plead her case . |
| 11 | Refusing to let herself think beyond the tasks she was performing , Leonora listened to the radio as she worked , and when the meal was well advanced she went quietly upstairs to find the bathroom empty , and Penry , fully dressed in fresh clothes , fast asleep on his bed . |
| 12 | Lady Eleanor took me into her confidence and told me how every day , late in the evening , she went down there to see if another letter had been left . ’ |
| 13 | If we went high enough to use a ‘ chute we 'd be picked up on radar immediately after taking off . ’ |
| 14 | We went back upstairs to find that all the contents of our lockers had been thrown out over the floors , mixed up , trampled on , and that the lockers themselves had been hurled around the room , across the beds , which had been stripped , and out of the doors . |
| 15 | One night along came Doctor Strangelove , so we went out early to eat before the film started , in a taverna near the cinema . |
| 16 | We went out there to do a job and we achieved a lot . |
| 17 | And they went on then to consider lack of understanding of consumers about G M technology as a whole , and made recommendations for erm , er , better labelling , and for a erm , information campaign to be launched as well . |
| 18 | Andrew Bergman told me later that when they went out there to make the deal , they felt like the expedition that goes into the jungle to bag King Kong . ’ |
| 19 | said they went in just to see how she was |
| 20 | All seemed to be in order , but next morning , after having trouble with one of the receivers , he went up again to make sure he had not inadvertently disturbed anything . |
| 21 | He supported himself by painting the portraits of the distinguished people he met on the way , and in Japan he went off alone to live among the aboriginal Ainu . |
| 22 | He went very willingly to watch Everton Football Club , and to the Parish Club where they played billiards and practised with dumbbells and a punchball , and to greyhound racing . |
| 23 | He went back inside to join the queue for the toilets , leaving Jude at the door , watching the blobs of wet snow pass through the lamplight . |
| 24 | Once the client was in a position to show that it had received independent legal advice to the effect that the law was uncertain it went ahead alone to achieve its chosen objective . |