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

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1 So of course I went away down to the Station and the folk came off the Edinburgh train and that , and this gentleman and lady were left and of course I approached them , I says , by any chance , I says , are you Professor .
2 York finally produced a win for the first time since the second half of November but only by 1110 against a side who went desperately close to clinching a late victory themselves .
3 York finally produced a win for the first time since the second half of November but only by 1110 against a side who went desperately close to clinching a late victory themselves .
4 When they heard the car they went carefully downstairs , and her mother settled her in while her father held the door and Alan put her bag in the boot .
5 Immediately after half-time they went further ahead when captain Nigel Johnston drove a short penalty for Jonathan Tate to take play to the front of the Limavady posts and from the resultant maul Johnston himself drove over to score with Crothers converting .
6 Although attempts to inject a more strategic element into economic management were made in the aftermath of the fuel crisis of 1947 , in practice they went little further than attempts at greater co-ordination .
7 Within a foot of the Wheel he went momentarily ahead , then knocked the motor out .
8 He does n't mark them and say right , boy you went astray then you 're gon na pay for that !
9 He had got under her skin , and after half an hour she went home alone , not content with second-best .
10 With this new confidence she went willingly out to Moran in the fields .
11 One interesting quirk that emerged during installation was that the everything worked fine on the Zenith Z-150 [ an excellent IBM clone ] yet when the program was installed on a Compaq Plus [ also extremely compatible ] with the special Compaq driver everything went subtly awry .
12 yeah an and bra and G-string I went right right , then I said oh by the way I 'm not erm I 'm not doing house swimming this year , I 'm not going to give you the , the pleasure yeah right and they were going oh no you have to do it , you have to do it , I was going yeah right cos I do actually want that again like last year it was just such a nightmare .
13 as if that were an omen , the race itself went just as badly and after nine laps Jackie had to come in to change a deflating tyre .
14 And for a while everything went very well .
15 Ostensibly ‘ in favour of perestroika ’ and incorporating many party members within their ranks , the new movements were none the less associated with a policy stance which went very much further than the party conference resolution .
16 One morning he went so far as to say to Nikos that he thought the affair was now over .
17 He has to watch his step very carefully vis-à-vis the Russians but my guess is that in this instance they went too far .
18 The two mosaic sections from the church which went safely home to Cyprus in the early 1980s have , however , avoided the limelight .
19 But anyway , er , you was saying er , th there then was a path which went eventually up to erm , the Boar 's Head on , on , the and there was a path across those fields all the way , a walk up there .
20 With the piece of toast in her hand she went right up to the window and pushed it further open .
21 In the end it went fairly well .
22 She was sick like the pretty lady in the film who went bravely on until she died all alone in her bed rather than compel her beloved family to share her pain .
23 He would not be fooled like the man in the film who went cheerfully off to work , leaving his brave young wife to die all alone in their pretty country cottage .
24 when we went to Marks and Spencers on our trip we went there an'all
25 The following year he went even further , saying on a visit to the North :
26 He had been urged by his doctor to escape the English winter and at the end of the year he went once more to South Africa for a ten-week holiday , sailing to Durban and then proceeding in a leisurely fashion to Cape Town .
27 This time you went too far .
28 After an early dinner we went straight back to our hotel and wrote it .
29 This time everything went very smoothly , which is the more remarkable as Fuchs is a controversial figure in the Dutch art world .
30 Dorigo had a great game , I thought , but all too often seemed to have been left in sole command of the entire left side of the pitch — every time he went forward alone , large gaps appeared behind him , and the gaps were frequently filled by the ball and Sunderland players .
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