Example sentences of "and his [noun pl] went [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Immediately after the Last Supper , Jesus and his disciples went out to the Mount of Olives .
3 He was speaking at a lunch organised by the Industrial Development Board for leading businessmen in the Province , and his words went down well .
4 The man reared back in pain and his hands went up to his face .
5 So while d'Abreu and his colleagues went off eastwards , even braver or more foolhardy men — following the banner of Castile — were determined to discover — heroically and , as it turned out for many of them , fatally — the way to reach this same Orient by travelling outwards to the West , across the vast unknown .
6 Friday and I stayed to watch the prisoners , while the captain and his men went back to fight for the ship .
7 When he came back we sat down on the grass and had a breather while Mr Sykes , the butcher , and his assistants went on carving .
8 Then Meares and his dogs went back to Cape Evans .
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