Example sentences of "they went [adv prt] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was glad to hear that their priests were telling the people that the potato murrain was a visitation of the Almighty ; he only hoped they went on to draw the full lesson . |
| 2 | Instead , they went on watching the Syrian tanks manoeuvring down the road half a mile away , in what had the previous day been the Christian front line . |
| 3 | But if they went on meeting every day , their relationship must develop : he could not stop himself . |
| 4 | They went on to form a government led by Edouard Balladur of the RPR thus ushering a second period of cohabitation of a right-wing government with a socialist President ( François Mitterrand ) . |
| 5 | So they went on developing the idea , and I retired to my bed with those notions in my head . |
| 6 | They went on sharpening the shears . |
| 7 | They went on to develop a method of rating family relationships from interviews in the relatives ' home ( the Camberwell Family Interview , Brown and Rutter , 1966 ) . |
| 8 | Henry liked his company because it was convivial ; the staying in bed disconcerted him partly because they went on having a good time together however energetically Finch adopted inertia . |
| 9 | Rachaela did not argue , and they went on unpacking the crate until a quarter past six . |
| 10 | And so they went on to recommend a return to selective education at secondary level , with no radical change in the sixth forms of the new grammar schools , even though some of these might be devoted exclusively to science and technology . |
| 11 | They went on to deride the ‘ screaming headlines ’ , ‘ spate of glorification ’ , and ‘ premature eulogies ’ which followed in its wake . |
| 12 | I mean just when you think about it they they were actually following estate agents when they went out to value a property . |
| 13 | Then they went off to rout the Scottish and Royalist forces . |
| 14 | When they went down to do the chassis |