Example sentences of "went [adv] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Auguste went slowly into the kitchens , unable to think fully of all the awful possibilities of the situation . |
| 2 | Matters went awry for the Allies from the start . |
| 3 | I just know we went deeper into the woods . |
| 4 | Yeah , yeah was kind , it was kind of them , yes and we went all round the shops and er I thoroughly enjoyed it and in the new Co-Op as well you know , I thoroughly enjoyed it but he took me in the car so that we did n't have to hang about you see |
| 5 | Erm you look fairly fit thank you very much , you know , very sweet of you dear , erm tt and I think to , to carry on with the regards to well how much do you earn you went all around the houses , do n't apologize and say well I have to ask you because , you know , , you know you need to know |
| 6 | Feeling in dire need of fresh air , Ellie went outside into the grounds . |
| 7 | Each of the Gospels mentions how Jesus went away into the hills to pray . |
| 8 | If she went away over the holidays and she had plastic surgery and she came back looking like Cindy Crawford or , I do n't know , do you think people would react differently to her or do you think they 'd be disgusted ? |
| 9 | So she slung her bag over her shoulder and went away -across the marshes . |
| 10 | I laughed out loud when he went away with the supper-things . |
| 11 | Lou Macari arrived with Stoke City , dominated the game and went away with the points thanks to a goal by Tony Ellis . |
| 12 | As we went away to the sounds of Mrs Otto 's profuse good-byes , I reflected on the nature of the relationship between her and Otto , almost the opposite to what one might have expected : the gallant captain going off to sea where his authority was absolute and his orders brooked no delay , and returning to a wife whom he clearly adored but where the roles were reversed . |
| 13 | He said , ‘ That is a pity ’ , with his smiling , still mouth , and he got back in the car and drove away , and Elizabeth went back in the house , and all the day she cried , and I went away to the hills . |
| 14 | Roberta and Faye went away to the pictures . |
| 15 | With a circuit to race Nick The Brief was pulled up , and though Desert Orchid continued to dispute the lead with Ten Of Spades as the runners went away from the stands for the second circuit Toby Tobias and Norton 's Coin were making noticeable progress through the field . |
| 16 | Tommy Dempsey went close to the visitors just four minutes before half time , but both teams welcomed the referee 's whistle to end the first half . |
| 17 | Moving quickly in spite of his elderly bulk , Mait went directly up the steps leading to his peristyle , and saw the wreckage where his Bagi had once stood . |
| 18 | Other costs amounted to £143 ( van hire £90 , petrol £48 , stamps £5 ) , so I 'm pleased to say that 94% of the money raised went directly on the mats themselves . |
| 19 | Though personal taste tends toward late nineteenth- and twentieth-century European art , his gifts many of which went directly into the galleries have ranged from Egyptian and Roman antiquities and Tiffany glass , to Ming armchairs , an eighteenth-century Italian chest , and a Native American painted elk hide . |
| 20 | When Maggie reached The Haven she parked the van in its usual spot , collected the grouse and then went directly into the kitchens where she dumped the birds in front of Harry Harrison , the chef . |
| 21 | Then they went home to the battlefields of the Great War . |
| 22 | It was a sunny day , and the garden party in the grounds of the school was a success , for Deborah and Stephen Manning , alerted by Sebastian and Alix , had insisted on presenting champagne ( you wo n't get anything to drink otherwise , they had been warned ) and it went quickly to the heads of those unaccustomed to drinking at all , while Sebastian 's contingent had primed themselves at their hotel before arriving , in double defence . |
| 23 | I found one of those plastic and formica Little Chefs that were replacing the old greasy spoon eateries and went straight into the Gents . |
| 24 | Once I did this without looking where I was going and went straight into the backs of nine armourers who were ambling towards the Mess for supper , and had to be disentangled from my machine , picked up and dusted off , which they did with all the gleeful enthusiasm which Thursby reserved for drawing his heavy black frontal lines on our neatly drawn charts . |
| 25 | Their first two releases were million sellers , ‘ Two Tribes ’ went straight into the charts at number 1 and was the inescapable sound of the summer ; ‘ Relax ’ ( in all its remixed varieties ) was a permanent hit , the most successful twelve-inch ever . |
| 26 | At first the boys went straight for the cars as usual and the girls did n't notice . |
| 27 | There were around 80 boys from my school and we went straight to the mountains and settled into our base camp . |
| 28 | They went straight to the toilets and repaired their makeup and hair . |
| 29 | With a white , set face , she left the office and went straight to the ladies ' powder-room , breaking down in private and crying silent , bitter tears . |
| 30 | After four years in the Royal Artillery , Dignam was invalided out of the army and went straight to the Arts Theatre , where he was a delightfully tongue-in-cheek Shavian Angel and a foxy Claudius , proving Stanislavsky 's adage , as Agrippa in the Anthony Quayle/Edith Evans Antony and Cleopatra , that there are ‘ no small parts ’ . |