Example sentences of "went [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But then , with a sudden movement , his hand went back and something went speeding through the air .
2 Inevitably Jack came over the top of the ball , hit a combination of a pull and a hook and the ball went crashing into the trees left of the green .
3 Pouring out the coffee with a shaking hand , adding milk and sugar , she went to sit at the table .
4 She went to sit on the floor where the rush matting was covered by a rug and rested her back against the sofa .
5 She went to sit on the sofa , and there she dreamed of Johnny , tenderly and with affection ; she thought of the words that he had said , and they made a warm spot , infinitely sweet , deep inside her where it could not be touched ; for just an hour or two , she began to believe that she truly loved him .
6 I gave it a wide berth and went to sit on the rug , but of course it had gone so I sat on one of the chairs instead , had a good long wash and settled down for a nap .
7 I went to sit in the pâtisserie Louis , on a fragile gilt chair , at a table with a pink linen cloth and a bowl of freesias .
8 Julia went to sit in the kitchen , trying to stop applying what she had just heard to her own situation .
9 ‘ I went to sit in the library to wait for Mummy and I started to cry . ’
10 Catherine said the music sounded sweeter from high up , and so she went to sit in the dark on the stairs .
11 We laughed and flirted and often went to swim in the Torrente Taro .
12 They went to swim in the Smith pool and Mr Smith sent a maid out with four shandies on a tray and several bags of crisps .
13 Remember one day mummy forgot to put on your , your brake in the pushchair , Bobby , she went whizzing across the train Bobby !
14 Everything went to plan in the opening stages with the Republic piling forward and causing all sorts of anxiety in the Lithuanian defence .
15 ’ He gave a sob , ‘ and she went rattling down the stairs to her room the way she always did and then I heard that awful sort of slither and Bunty 's scream … ’
16 Gloria tied on her red headscarf , Dot buttoned up her pink cardigan and they went to wait for the bus to take them down to the hospital to see how Baby was doing .
17 They left the hospital and went to wait for the bus .
18 They both went galloping about the pinnacles like mad things .
19 Like that deep trog of a bank manager I went to see at the end of my first term at university .
20 Mind you , there 's been a great pause on it while you went to see to the baby .
21 You know when we went to see about the flagstones ?
22 We found that we went to go to the telephone system that there were a whole load of numbers not being used .
23 Then he went to go to the loo and nearly did a complete backward flip down the stairs .
24 He went tearing across the clearing .
25 In that instant it came to Ruth that he did know her ; but before she could be sure his hands left her shoulders and he went leaping round the side of the hummock , his long coat flapping , straight towards the spear men .
26 He did not , but went to stand at the window , looking out .
27 Pushing roughly past him , she went to stand at the window , her back to him .
28 Luke pushed back his chair impatiently and went to stand at the window , looking down , his back towards her .
29 Senga went to stand before the window .
30 The two of them went to stand in the bow .
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