Example sentences of "[adv] went [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 His work with The Miracles kept him in hits until 1972 , when he finally went solo and delivered the gorgeous Smokey , which might have promised more than it delivered but which ultimately — on ‘ Baby Come Close ’ , ‘ Just My Soul Responding ’ and the personal protest of ‘ Holly ’ — established him as the great single Romeo of modern soul .
2 He did n't seem to stop and ponder , he just went ahead and did things .
3 ‘ After the police had come and talked to us I just went home and had a cup of tea and a glass of brandy with water and went to bed . ’
4 The man said he later went outside and saw a soldier lying on the road with others around him who seemed to be helping him or attending to him .
5 I thought she was just being awkward until she slowly went downhill and became incontinent .
6 I took this to mean that he was suicidal , so I immediately went upstairs and removed anything harmful from the bathroom .
7 When the Welling director Graham Hobbins and his brother Barry , the secretary , found out , they immediately went outside and paid every kid the difference .
8 She sat and rocked him for a while until he felt all right again and then went upstairs and dressed herself in a low-backed , jade green jumpsuit and gold pumps and gold hoop ear-rings , and felt exotic .
9 He buried it again and then went away and realised enough capital to buy the field so that he could claim the treasure .
10 Determined , rightly , to avoid the crude class reductionism of many earlier Marxist approaches to the sociology of cultural forms , he stressed the importance of mediation , but then went further and insisted that music
11 He smiled sadly , then went across and took up the basin , carrying it across to the door .
12 He soon calmed down , then went across and fussed over her to make up for the rumpus , though it had n't bothered her in the slightest .
13 She studied him a moment , then went across and bent down , recovering the pay-key .
14 He stopped , staring at her , appalled by the likeness , then went across and stood by the open hatchway , looking outwards , his neat-cut hair barely moving in the icy wind .
15 He shrugged , then went across and picked it up .
16 We gazed , open-mouthed at the stately triple towers and the flying buttresses , then went inside and found the famous Lincoln Imp in the Angel Choir , and J. bought me a small silver imp for my charm bracelet .
17 ‘ Take care of yourself , kid , ’ Whitlock said softly then went inside and closed the sliding door behind him .
18 He chatted to them all evening , then went home and fell asleep .
19 This sometimes went further than raising the TOEFL entry fee and involved putting up guarantees for thousands of dollars for candidates .
20 Two of them never went home but stayed on .
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