Example sentences of "went [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nutty went to round up the others with the good news and returned to find their new trainer surrounded by an admiring crowd . |
| 2 | ( 28/12/92 ) : Stephen , Richard Newcombe and I went to sum up the move to Ron Davies 's barn . |
| 3 | He put Middy down , found the torch , and went walking up the field path . |
| 4 | Blake went to pick up a handful of the substance , but the Doctor kicked it out of his grasp . |
| 5 | Isabel , backing further into the shadows , dared to breathe again when the soldier went to pick up the ale-cups . |
| 6 | ‘ Mr Blake , ’ she called , ‘ I 'm sure you 're needed elsewhere — ’ but even before she could finish speaking another glass crashed off a table , and Charity , still doing battle with her skirt , went to pick up the fragments . |
| 7 | I went to rinse out a towel in the hand basin . |
| 8 | He asked the mother the child 's weight , worked out the dose and Kathleen went to draw up the drug and get the Flamazine ointment . |
| 9 | She went flying up the garden ! |
| 10 | ‘ He went to shut up the chickens , ’ Albert Sandwich said . |
| 11 | Madra went to build up the fire . |
| 12 | She touched Midnight 's shoulder and said in his ear : ‘ I 'll not desert thee , ’ then stood up and went to climb down the ladder . |
| 13 | New loans went to pay off the interest on earlier loans rather than on buying new farm machinery or modernising farming methods . |
| 14 | Tim went ran up the tree . |
| 15 | While these various groups which went to make up the hierarchy were mutually interdependent , the basic principle on which society was organized was this formal system of ranking . |
| 16 | First , by drawing a distinction between what it regarded as the natural ( and therefore genuine ) core of religion and the complex of authorities , traditions , institutions and doctrines which went to make up the forms of Christianity , it implied that much , indeed very much of the latter was redundant and could safely be jettisoned . |
| 17 | Among the shields are those of Bohemia , Moravia , Silesia and Upper and Lower Lusatia , the states that went to make up the lands of Bohemia . |
| 18 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |