Example sentences of "he went [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he went outside to wait . |
| 2 | He went outside to meet the protesters and accept a petition of 4,000 signatures . |
| 3 | To frighten off these visions , and because further sleep was out of the question , he went downstairs to make some tea . |
| 4 | In 1253–4 he went peacefully to visit Louis IX at Paris and , as duke of Aquitaine , to arbitrate a feud which was dividing his city of Bordeaux into two powerful factions . |
| 5 | She 's done a bunk , Mr Trilby said to himself and he went away to inform the School Governors that the Headmistress had apparently vanished . |
| 6 | But he went away to look and dates and the address of Evelyn Bond were provided . |
| 7 | While he went away to phone Bucharest the three stood around the car , feeling like criminals awaiting sentence . |
| 8 | He had already had his own and he went away to play the harpsichord for twenty minutes . |
| 9 | While he went ahead to direct Yet , I looked about me . |
| 10 | He went straight to work on the swollen sheep , and managed to save almost all of them . |
| 11 | He made Willie cocoa and left him with Sammy to look at the ‘ straw roofs ’ while he went upstairs to put up more blackouts . |
| 12 | ‘ He went upstairs to see some rat holes … they certainly were enormous — and discovered that the room in which the food of the Gods was mixed … was in quite a disgraceful order . ’ |
| 13 | She saw Vincent 's father as he went upstairs to confront his son . |
| 14 | " When he went upstairs to change for dinner , Lady Agatha and Fidelma looked at each other . " |
| 15 | He went upstairs to change out of the heavy boots he had ( unnecessarily ) decided were good rugby-watching gear . |
| 16 | Leonora stared after him , stricken , as he went upstairs to pack his belongings . |
| 17 | He went upstairs to find her handbag . |
| 18 | He tapped Larsen on the shoulder to gain his attention and signalled for him to stay hidden while he went forward to hook the grapnel . |
| 19 | No , he erm , I say with videos that they , they send a video over an Australian thing , this chap 's the other two and one of them had a camera and he went aboard to test pilot it and he took the all around the place round er having flown six five minutes and he paid he tried to things that had gone wrong , whatever it was and erm , he , he , he 's . |
| 20 | Indeed , he went further to say that ‘ APPN is the commercial solution without any doubt , ’ and that ‘ We think that APPN will be the standard ; for routing SNA you will need APPN ’ . |
| 21 | He went further to deal with the question as to whether or not the liquidators had public interest immunity in case the issue should become relevant later . |
| 22 | Afterwards , he went home to have dinner and a wash and shave before returning to Central Strike Headquarters at 7.00 p.m . |
| 23 | He explained that he went there to look for me . |
| 24 | After a lunch of Roquefort sandwiches and the remains of last night 's salad , he went inside to lie down . |
| 25 | Mahmoud was n't there when he arrived , so he went inside to buy his stamps and then came out to use the wet roller hanging against the wall . |
| 26 | After the dissolution he went overseas to serve as a volunteer in the Dutch army . |
| 27 | He went quickly to sleep with the lights still all on , his body hot and rigid , curled up into a tight ball , and his eyes screwed up tight . |