Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] went [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 So I went over to knock on the door .
2 We could find no cause for this when I regressed him to an earlier period in this life and so I went on to regress him to what appeared to be a previous life .
3 I think my G P actually sent me further down hill into anorexia after I 'd lost about , about when I was seven stone I went to see her , I 'd never seen her before and she said well you look perfectly acc , sociably acceptable to me so I went on to lose two more stone before going back to see her and was admitted to hospital as a medical emergency !
4 so I went in to pull them out , then I rang her rang her wee fella , she came round on Friday night and collected them sorry she collected them and she could n't get them back to , till the Tuesday , Tuesday .
5 So I went out to play like I do for Liverpool . ’
6 So I went out to look for something else .
7 So I went out to get some fish and chips and they called me NIGGGGGAH ! ’
8 So I went back to alight indicator , pulled down only a few inches , which was enough to allow the bream to suck the bait to their lips , and then I paused for a few seconds while I watched the line from the rod-tip tightening in the water .
9 So I went down to see the secretary who I found out was in the flying horse and er told him who I was , Ooh yes , ooh yes , you 're playing this afternoon , are n't you ?
10 just to make my day just to make my day yeah well , I was n't sure what those you see , hang on a minute mum so er she said she 'll either get the twelve or the one so I went down to see if she was on the twelve o'clock bus , and she was n't so I thought well I 'll try again
11 So she went off to go doggedly through the full factual screening of Posi 's data of Fraxilly .
12 For the first time I met Jeremy 's father , who had just arrived from America , and together we went in to see the body .
13 She projected a sort of calm , a lack of strife , and so he went over to join her .
14 And they just could n't , he lost his job which is the same old story and er anyway they went back to visit and they kee they go back every two or three weeks to visit this house .
15 In the Chairman 's Address by the Rev. Arnold Thomas quoted above he went on to expand on a definition of the Nonconformist Conscience and in so doing showed how social attitudes and religious arguments had become fused .
16 Often she went out to see the sky complete , unfettered by any window-frame .
17 In the special souvenir programme of their visit chairman of Farnham Urban District Council W. H. Emery waxed lyrical about the glories of England in April : ‘ They will find the countryside awakening to the call of spring with the first green buds bursting into life and on their return to their native land they will carry with them happy memories of Farnham — in April , ’ and inevitably he went on to quote Robert Browning on the subject of being in England , ‘ Now that April 's there … ‘
18 Well I went along to get my .
19 My memories of it , I 've got , I 've always got wonderful memories of the Co-op , you see and that Co-op has been there m on that corner which , when it closed a few years ago I went down to see the present executive officer , he was then assistant , and we campaigned against the closing of Walsall Wood shop but erm course it was of no avail .
20 But even he went on to say that gossip has ‘ a kind of divinity ’ .
21 My dear Theo , I wrote to you already early this morning , then I went away to go on with a picture of a garden in the sunshine .
22 that 's what I 'd guessed , erm , so I said no , I said they 're fine , so she said oh I 'm ever so sorry I said do n't be I said these sort of things get around , I mean it 's , she kept go and then I went on to describe how I virtually done not too a dissimilar thing going up the road trying to talk to people about writing in to object , you know with this planning application and erm , I said I sort of knock on someone 's door up there and I thought it was the next door that the husband had died and it was that one
23 So then I went secretly to have an abortion , and my mother-in-law found out about that too .
24 Then I went in to face an English Corporal of ten years ' service , who had a bad reputation .
25 Then I went down to see Andy .
26 Then I went down to live in London and face reality .
27 ‘ For a while , ’ he answered , ‘ and then I went out to have lunch with Bill .
28 Then she went on to elaborate with the facts she 'd learned from Leo .
29 Then she went downstairs to find her mother .
30 Then she went upstairs to tell Giovanna that she thought she would not be able to stay for her Italian lesson , because she felt so ill , and took herself painfully back across the Grand Canal to her temporary home .
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