Example sentences of "went [adv] [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her husband considered pushing the dog on to the floor , thought better of it , and went sulkily off to bed . |
| 2 | Dana felt so sick , he went straight back to bed , but had been there only a few seconds before he leapt out with a scream of agony : an autumnal , sleepy wasp had been brought in by the chambermaid among the bedclothes which had been airing at the window and had stung my friend on the bottom ! |
| 3 | he went straight back to work |
| 4 | Visibility was very poor and having been warned that barrage balloons were hoisted over the Liverpool area which had very recently suffered heavily in bombing raids , we went well out to sea before turning in to Speke , only to get entangled in a coastal convoy flying balloons . |
| 5 | He would not be fooled like the man in the film who went cheerfully off to work , leaving his brave young wife to die all alone in their pretty country cottage . |