Example sentences of "she went [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | Then she went upstairs to tell Giovanna that she thought she would not be able to stay for her Italian lesson , because she felt so ill , and took herself painfully back across the Grand Canal to her temporary home . |
2 | She went upstairs to change , thinking how proud Arnold would have been of the way she had coped with the water shortage . |
3 | She went upstairs to change after luncheon and then took herself to the chair by her bedroom hearth , and said she should want nothing further , all afternoon . |
4 | She went upstairs to pack as soon as she could . |
5 | Remembering the cheque , she went upstairs to get it , she flattened it out and stared at the signature . |
6 | Why was it , Sally-Anne thought when she went forward to take it , that this pitiful sum seemed more precious to her than her huge allowance which she could claim any day she wished ? |
7 | Rearrested in May 1918 , from Holloway Prison she went forward to win the seat for St Patrick 's division , Dublin , in the December 1918 general election , the first woman elected to the British Parliament . |
8 | Smiling shyly , she went forward to meet them . |
9 | She went outside to talk to him , threatening all sorts of terrible punishments for anyone who misbehaved in her absence . |
10 | She dressed , she went downstairs to sit in an armchair . |
11 | When she went downstairs to make herself some toast it was still very dark , although it was eight o'clock and she could hear the children talking in their room . |
12 | Shivering inside her bathrobe , she went downstairs to seek the sun . |
13 | Then she went downstairs to find her mother . |
14 | She went downstairs to find David waiting for her , dressed in uniform , with his British warm over one arm . |
15 | At last , unable to delay confrontation any longer , she went downstairs to find Penry emerging from the study as she reached the kitchen . |
16 | In the middle , she went away to make tea , and brought it back with digestive biscuits she had broken into quarters . |
17 | But she seemed to have got over her momentary embarrassment , so he smiled at her as warmly as he could , and she went away to eat her solitary lunch in the small bed-sitting-room alongside the nursery , which was the only part of the Unit that was n't monitored with cameras and tape recorders . |
18 | But since she knew that the Czech word for ‘ please ’ was ‘ prosím ’ she was hoping that the polite woman 's parting phrase had been the equivalent of an English ‘ Excuse me , please ’ while she went away to hand her card over to Vendelin Gajdusek . |
19 | She went often to see his family . |
20 | Gratefully , she went across to take their order . |
21 | She went home to lie down . |
22 | Early in the evening she went home to get her brown envelope . |
23 | She went listlessly to answer a knock on the door and was amazed to see John there and to be swept into his arms . |
24 | Cos after she went there to see me , you spoil him . |