Example sentences of "his [noun] went [adv prt] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She liked the way his mind went back and back in layers : how he tried to justify emotion with reason . |
| 2 | His head went back and he laughed at her mutinous expression , the glint in his eyes deepening , before leaning forward again and addressing her with quiet insistence . |
| 3 | His executives went in and out of office like dogs at a fair , and so did his treasurers . |
| 4 | personally an and from er and the rest and he , he 's gone to this area and he 's looked and he , he 's seen and he may have interpreted this , or wanted to interpret it so that when his report went back that the , he was saying that we must get a move on to the people in the Party saying that we need to get involved now , we need to be in all these areas , we need to be helping things develop and , and being a part at the front . |
| 5 | He scrutinised her closely as she lowered her legs to the floor and his hand went out as she stood . |
| 6 | His hand went out and cupped her breast crudely . |
| 7 | But then , with a sudden movement , his hand went back and something went speeding through the air . |
| 8 | Eventually Emerson got past Regazzoni and then Peterson whose car was more like a wrestling opponent than a smooth machine But just as Fittipaldi was beginning to think he might be able to make up Ickx 's fifteen-second lead , his gearbox went off and caught fire and Emerson made a hasty emergency exit . |
| 9 | 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 . |