Example sentences of "and [pos pn] [noun pl] went " in BNC.

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1 I was saying to myself where 's it gone , where 's it gone , and praying to God , praying to God , and my thoughts went to the family for a few minutes .
2 ‘ After our lords left , I and my sisters went to live on an island here in Undersea .
3 he set up on his own you see and my brothers went there .
4 And and my ears went you know , what on earth are you spending all this money for on that
5 ‘ I 'm a tap dancer , ’ Katy said , and her feet went clatter , clatter .
6 He gave the horse a gentle slap and the old grey mare , the cart , Granny and her possessions went slowly on their way .
7 ‘ Good , ’ she said , and her arms went round him again .
8 And her thoughts went straight to Christmas .
9 Normally when she came here she and her friends went directly to the restaurant of their choice .
10 She stopped in mid bite and her ears went back warily .
11 Her fingers withdrew from the soft cloth and her cheeks went rose-pink with humiliation .
12 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 .
13 He shrugged out of his jacket and her hands went to his cotton shirt , fumbling in their haste to undo the buttons .
14 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 .
15 After the ceremony , the wedding party and their guests went to the Rotonde and Libion , the popular patron , offered champagne on the house and toasts were drunk enthusiastically .
16 They sang , they danced on the tables , they called for their heroes and their heroes went to them .
17 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 .
18 Immediately after the Last Supper , Jesus and his disciples went out to the Mount of Olives .
19 ’ I just get guys saying , ’ Hey man , I love that film where you bit that guys neck and then you shot him in the head and his brains went spilling all over your face .
20 As a break in pre-season training in August 192 1 , Chapman and his players went on a charabanc trip to Harrogate , where they enjoyed an afternoon game of bowls .
21 and his arms went like this and his aargh
22 and he had his scars like this , and his ankle went like that , and his arms went like that , and
23 His face softened , his pupils grew bigger , and his irises went deep green like olive oil .
24 A lady from Doncaster wrote and offered me a cooker , so Frank and his friends went to pick it up , overhaul it and bring it here .
25 That evening Pop and his students went to the hospital to help her , going in white cassocks , which was silly , because in the morning they returned covered in blood and dirt !
26 Last autumn , a five-year-old boy from mid-Glamorgan and his parents went to Buckingham Palace to receive from the Queen the keys of the 250,000th car supplied by Motability since 1978 .
27 He was speaking at a lunch organised by the Industrial Development Board for leading businessmen in the Province , and his words went down well .
28 The man reared back in pain and his hands went up to his face .
29 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 .
30 AFTER AN INCONCLUSIVE day spent discussing the caesura of ‘ Sonnet ’ 's opening line , Luke and his colleagues went for cocktails at Strabismus .
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