Example sentences of "they went [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | anyway , they went away and this chap saw it and er he made an offer and Peter flatly refused it ! |
| 2 | and though they went away and the bomb squad came they went away they they had a problem with their vehicles and the second lot of dogs did n't like the area either |
| 3 | ‘ I went away and left him ’ , now even if they went , went away and left and , because they had to bring the children home , or if they went away and left him because they knew it was the best thing for everyone concerned , because the foreign office wants as many people , we all need as many people to get out of the area as possible ; their guilt will be huge . |
| 4 | After a long game in the kitchen which ended in a draw , they went upstairs and made love . |
| 5 | Back at the house in Muswell Hill , they went upstairs and stood on the landing . |
| 6 | Then they went upstairs and filled the children 's stockings with apples and nuts , and sugar pigs with string tails made by Mrs. Jordan . |
| 7 | and er I went her mother and father were with her and I just really went in up and down the stairs , and they went upstairs and they , they shouted , oh Ann ! |
| 8 | They went outside and as they got back into the Kubelwagen Devlin said , ‘ Crete and the Afrika Korps , I see , and Stalingrad . |
| 9 | In this they might have taken heed of the Reich 's experience , but instead they went ahead and repeated that experience in miniature . |
| 10 | Once before they went ahead and believed , but it was a leap of faith with no questions asked and they fell and were hurt . |
| 11 | Although worried about the consequences of their boycott , they went ahead and were offered a pay rise as a result . |
| 12 | So naturally they went ahead and did it anyway , without Waite 's knowledge . |
| 13 | They went ahead and applied to Hesel Heseltine , who agreed to let them build the power station . |
| 14 | Those jobs where we 've done badly because we can learn why they went badly and make sure that they do n't happen again . |
| 15 | " It 's just a trick , really , it 's easy , " said Clara , and she took back the egg , and found that she could not put it together again either , so they decided to abandon it , and left it in little pieces in a glass dish on the mantelpiece with some dry and coloured gourds , and then they went downstairs and out into the park , and walked towards the bus stop , and Clara explained , lest the gourds and the egg should be thought to reflect in any way on herself , that they had been given to her by a friend the week before , to celebrate her twenty-second birthday . |
| 16 | They went downstairs and the old lady was waiting for them in the hall . |
| 17 | They went downstairs and into the drawing room . |
| 18 | What happened was there was a burglar and er they went downstairs and they him over the head and then they put him a chair and they got the and he goes , what shall we , what shall we wrap him up in ? |
| 19 | And then every year after that , they used to hold the one minute 's silence which the mill whistles went and of course you stood for a minute and then they went again and that was it over . |
| 20 | One day they went further than they intended , were playing by a pool , when Mary fell in . |
| 21 | In the other fields I 've discussed earlier — public speaking appearing on television , staging a special event , holding a conference , you can ( but you should n't ) kid yourself that they went better than they really did . |
| 22 | but they seemed to , yes they went better than I |
| 23 | They went across and stood there , before the gate , looking in . |
| 24 | They went across and looked . |
| 25 | Ruth was horrified when they went below and she saw their sleeping space . |
| 26 | They went more and more slowly , and made long halts in the peat-cuts . |
| 27 | He also remembered the goose pimples that appeared on his arms as the evening grew cooler , and how he did n't suggest they went inside because he was afraid she would say that it was time to go . |
| 28 | They went inside and Marie 's knowing looks seemed to infuriate Alain even more . |
| 29 | But of Doreen there was no sign — at least not until they went inside and she emerged from her bedroom , where she had been weeping . |
| 30 | As they reached their garden gate , he burst into a torrent of foul-mouthed racist abuse that continued as they went inside and closed the door . |