Example sentences of "and [pos pn] [noun] went [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time in my life , my hair behaved itself and curled round my face in a manner which I considered most flattering , and my make-up went on well on a skin which did n't have one spot or blemish . |
| 2 | And er he went round and I do n't know I never heard him playing the fiddle , but they said he was very good at fiddling , but he was a grand one for old stories , , and er he was just doing farms here and there so Then eventually he turned so old he 'd only one dog and then er he died down at the D At a place called the Doonie And this man D Duncan , he had just an er one of the er I think one of the tramps from Blair Gowrie was working to him and he came up and told my father and my father went down to see about him , you see him being in the parish council . |
| 3 | Then I was working and my sister Mary started work and my father went out one night and he came back knocked the door and he was drunk as per usual . |
| 4 | I opened the door , and my family went in . |
| 5 | I set about building up an act with the aid of Rag magazines , joke-books , a gag nicked from here , a gag nicked from there and at my next engagement , four days later , I was billed as a comic and my fee went up a few quid . |
| 6 | I mean all the Scottish and the Welsh , I always remember when when erm when the first houses , when we lived , when I lived with me mother , and in that house we lived in was a big estate erm near us and erm ever such a lot of Welsh people lived there and , I do n't know who it was , somebody wanted a place , could n't get anywhere and my mother went up there with you let all the Welsh people come here he s she said they run us down and that was years and years ago she said , nearly everybody on that estate 's Welsh ourselves . |
| 7 | The essential characteristics of this primacy which distinguished it from such primacies as that of Hamburg or Lyons were , first , that it was centred in a monastic community , and second , that its roots and its authorization went back ( as Anselm was persuaded ) to its original constitution in the seventh century . |
| 8 | Sister Rosario looked at the pinched face of Maura Ryan and her heart went out to the child . |
| 9 | Tilly Mulliver had seen the look on his face , heard the sounds emanating from the study , knew what he had witnessed , and her heart went out to him . |
| 10 | Louisa received it so , and her heart went out to the suffering woman . |
| 11 | He looked tired and upset and her heart went out to him . |
| 12 | He looked tired and drawn and her heart went out to him , but when he caught sight of Belinda the smile was back on his face . |
| 13 | She stopped in mid bite and her ears went back warily . |
| 14 | As a last resort , she and her son went back to the Children 's Home . |
| 15 | Seb guided Anna to a chair and sat her down , but instead of releasing his hand immediately she pulled him to her and her hand went up to his face , her finger-tips gently assessing his injuries . |
| 16 | Encouraged by their neighbour 's cheeriness , Ellie and her brother went round to the back of her house and shyly waited to be let in . |
| 17 | She trotted beside Miss Honey with wild little hops and her fingers flew as if she would scatter them to the four winds and her words went off like fireworks , with terrific speed . |
| 18 | Her father went to work and her mother went out playing bingo in a town eight miles away . |
| 19 | He was easy to talk to , never allowed any pauses in the conversation , and their paths went back far enough to allow them to spend hours just chatting about people they knew in common . |
| 20 | Rosemary smiled , and their talk went on , until Leith spoke of the urgency of finding another job . |
| 21 | But the rabbi was a very kind man and his heart went out to the poor man . |
| 22 | They widened even more and his eyebrows went up and down , with an odd little flicker , as though with the effort of forcing his message silently across the air to Jinny . |
| 23 | and two years later she died and his luck went out , |
| 24 | Immediately after the Last Supper , Jesus and his disciples went out to the Mount of Olives . |
| 25 | But his business folded , and his wife went back to Japan . |
| 26 | Joyce and his wife went out into sunlit streets of Berlin on that Sunday afternoon to see what further news they could gather . |
| 27 | Hartlepool manager Alan Murray said last night : ‘ Saville and his wife went out , with two other couples , for a meal . |
| 28 | But whenever Angus and his daughter went out in the boat fishing for their lives to keep themselves fed , it seemed that a seal swam in front of the boat and lead them towards the places where the fishes were thickest in the sea in that part of the coast . |
| 29 | Either a spark had come down from the old fellow 's hole up there or him with hobnail boots had trod on er black powder and set it off and his hole went out underneath his feet . |
| 30 | Adam stared round , and his head went up like a frightened horse 's . |