Example sentences of "[coord] [pos pn] [noun pl] went [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women were only married for their strength , but when that went , they were worthless , & their children went down instead . |
| 2 | She stopped in mid bite and her ears went back warily . |
| 3 | She trotted beside Miss Honey with wild little hops and her fingers flew as if she would scatter them to the four winds and her words went off like fireworks , with terrific speed . |
| 4 | He was easy to talk to , never allowed any pauses in the conversation , and their paths went back far enough to allow them to spend hours just chatting about people they knew in common . |
| 5 | They widened even more and his eyebrows went up and down , with an odd little flicker , as though with the effort of forcing his message silently across the air to Jinny . |
| 6 | Immediately after the Last Supper , Jesus and his disciples went out to the Mount of Olives . |
| 7 | He was speaking at a lunch organised by the Industrial Development Board for leading businessmen in the Province , and his words went down well . |
| 8 | The man reared back in pain and his hands went up to his face . |
| 9 | So while d'Abreu and his colleagues went off eastwards , even braver or more foolhardy men — following the banner of Castile — were determined to discover — heroically and , as it turned out for many of them , fatally — the way to reach this same Orient by travelling outwards to the West , across the vast unknown . |
| 10 | Friday and I stayed to watch the prisoners , while the captain and his men went back to fight for the ship . |
| 11 | When he came back we sat down on the grass and had a breather while Mr Sykes , the butcher , and his assistants went on carving . |
| 12 | Then Meares and his dogs went back to Cape Evans . |
| 13 | But his eyes went back to the Workshops and he frowned and sought for the right thing to say . |