Example sentences of "they [vb past] go [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact ever since the pair of them started going out together they 've been going on about having to find poor old Jenny a new man . |
| 2 | They got to go out tonight . |
| 3 | And especially if they planned to go somewhere else today . |
| 4 | When this had been done they made to go downstairs again , but I was in front of them going down two at a time . |
| 5 | When you were hanging over that skip the other evening — ’ he rolled his eyes ‘ — they seemed to go on forever . ’ |
| 6 | They began to go out together . |
| 7 | rather be up there with them they sanctioned to go up there on a Friday night and they said that , that lot of them do er you know , what you call it , there you go up and everyone 's in the mood to sell you something , they let you , you know |
| 8 | They kept going just as fast — faster — but there were more and more of them . |
| 9 | They had gone away together , she and Paul , to Papa 's fury ; and at first had been wildly happy . |
| 10 | Mr Stuart-Moore alleged Laing wrote the letter because ‘ he was trying to make all look well , so people would think they had gone away together ’ . |
| 11 | By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus . |
| 12 | Passing lamp-lit windows through which they could see sleeping Japanese soldiers and men talking in small groups , they had gone as far as a machine-gun post among the buildings — probably part of the anti-aircraft defences-when a Japanese soldier came up . |
| 13 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 14 | Indeed they had gone so far as to bring one Nicoleyva , from the Soviet Union to plead with British men and women to do just this , and open a second front in Europe . |
| 15 | They had gone out together but there had not been a sexual relationship between them as Faye had been unwilling to sleep with Harris , said Mr Chadd . |
| 16 | Her parting from him took place in a field of buttercups and small cows ; they had gone there together on their bicycles one hot afternoon , she with the intention of reading her book , and he with the intention of persuading her to remove as many of her clothes as possible . |
| 17 | Into the Home territory beyond they had to go fairly warily , but less so than if they had been a weaker company , not because of fears that the Homes would betray them to Dunbar but in that they were always jealous of their declared rights to decide who should enter their country and what they should pay for the privilege ; but two hundred and fifty well-armed men in tight formation carried their own safe-conduct , and they rode through without challenge . |
| 18 | The Chinese never felt that they had to go anywhere much beyond their own frontiers to acquire knowledge or to find riches ; to the extent that they did go abroad , it was to the west , by land or by hugging the coast . |