Example sentences of "went [adv] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That night El-ahrairah came out of the marshes of Kelfazin and went secretly up to the great ditch . |
| 2 | He sketched a slight , mocking bow and left her , and Merrill went slowly along to the cloakroom . |
| 3 | She went slowly along to the door she knew led into his study , and now it was Jenna 's brow that was creased in a frown . |
| 4 | Juliet went slowly along to the nurses ' station , where the trolley of files was kept . |
| 5 | Then she dried her eyes on the hem of her petticoat and went slowly back to the house . |
| 6 | She went slowly back to the drawing-room to collect her sketch-pad and pencils , and all the time she kept telling herself that this was a really stupid thing to do . |
| 7 | She went slowly back to the kitchen . |
| 8 | Mr Hellyer gave him every assistance and afterwards went thankfully down to the pub for a few beers . |
| 9 | But it also went right up to the fifties . |
| 10 | Did n't we notice that her voice really was n't that strong when it went right up to the top storey ? |
| 11 | The problem went right up to the London board of the company , and it decreed that , in future , sums of money of any size should be handled only by European expatriate employees of the company . |
| 12 | With the piece of toast in her hand she went right up to the window and pushed it further open . |
| 13 | I went right down to the sea 's edge , but the water was too cold for pleasure , so I retreated to the dry level and sat down to brush the sand off my feet and put on my shoes again . |
| 14 | Why are you working on that on the stairs and anyway I went right down to the bottom ! |
| 15 | Went right back to the rank of probationer . |
| 16 | Initially she went right back to the age of four and , although she could not tell me what year it was , she did know that there was a queen called Victoria . |
| 17 | My father , a cultivated man in every other respect , nursed a strong contempt for science which rubbed off on me and , I suspect , went right back to the Darwinian controversies of the nineteenth century , for he was the son of the manse . |
| 18 | I went right back to the top of the Wainui hill , but there was no trace of the pannier . |
| 19 | ‘ We went right out to the Blue Lagoon . |
| 20 | She went swiftly over to the door and had gone before he could answer . |
| 21 | ’ He seemed to sigh , and his eyes went starkly up to the spear-point . |
| 22 | " Go out in the airfield and we will tell you , and field away out , " they said , I went away out to the most remarkable end until I was on the edge of the main runway . |
| 23 | So of course I went away down to the Station and the folk came off the Edinburgh train and that , and this gentleman and lady were left and of course I approached them , I says , by any chance , I says , are you Professor . |
| 24 | There was nobody in the passage , so Raoul went quickly up to the door of the dressing-room , opened it and went in . |
| 25 | When she stooped and retrieved her basket , and went rapidly back to the house with it , Patrick wished he had said something , that he had called out to her . |
| 26 | But this time Hardy went straight on to the attack , putting Holmes on the canvas with a right over the top for an initial count of seven . |
| 27 | He fingered his tie , a particularly vivid one that day , and went straight on to the purpose of their meeting , which was to ask her to help Frank Shildon who was investigating aspects of the MacQuillan empire . |
| 28 | Helen graduated in History at Somerville College , Oxford and then went straight on to the CPE and Finals Courses at the Lancaster Gate branch of the College of Law . |
| 29 | I went straight round to the Brigadier 's house and rang . |
| 30 | All the children blessed themselves from the fount and went straight up to the altar . |