Example sentences of "went [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 We went properly turned out for Sunday service .
2 After a lunch of Roquefort sandwiches and the remains of last night 's salad , he went inside to lie down .
3 There was only a very slight frown on her brow when Fernando went inside to bring out the paella .
4 I climbed down through the sails , then went below to tie up my wound .
5 At one stage the whole congregation went outside to see where the drainage ditch would be sited .
6 So we planned out our next move and went just went down and did it !
7 My dear Theo , I wrote to you already early this morning , then I went away to go on with a picture of a garden in the sunshine .
8 As they walked to the hotel car park across the road , two young art student types , thin girls with long black hair and western eyes , stopped and asked him if he could help them work their camera , they were out on an assignment and it would n't go at all , and Rory fiddled something on the side and gave it back and said : ‘ That should be it now , the poor ould thing should be in a museum ’ , and as they went away looked back at him , and back again .
9 Decisively outvoted , Hoare went away to think up an alternative plan .
10 Having sorted out Barry 's clothes , she then went home to sort out the miners ' strike .
11 She went home to lie down .
12 The night that he said no to my offer of a drink I went home feeling really down .
13 I think they went early to get back early .
14 That was the amazing thing about it , it all went always worked well .
15 ‘ I borrowed some other guy 's gear and went straight back out and lost his too .
16 This reflection went far to set up Harry again in his own esteem , for it meant that Isambard had been sure of his victim 's obstinate silence even under torture ; more sure of it , if the truth were told , than Harry himself had been at the worst moment .
17 and I went across to see how she was and he says I 'm expecting her home today , that were Thursday , so that was
18 it went twice did n't it ?
19 There seemed to be a veritable army of helpers needed to open up the big downstairs rooms , and wherever she went there seemed yet another one poised to ask her a question she was unable to answer .
20 Oh and that , that little boy who was at school , Nicholas , he went there did n't he ?
21 as well , tha we went there did n't we ?
22 That woman , we went there have n't we ?
23 I went there to find out . ’
24 Ianthe and Penelope went upstairs to take off their coats .
25 He and Fagin went upstairs to talk privately .
26 He made Willie cocoa and left him with Sammy to look at the ‘ straw roofs ’ while he went upstairs to put up more blackouts .
27 After lunch , Juliet , looking peaky and feeling grim , as she had done in the early months of her previous pregnancy , went upstairs to lie down .
28 He went upstairs to change out of the heavy boots he had ( unnecessarily ) decided were good rugby-watching gear .
29 With little official funding or backing , the team went ahead to establish just such a network .
30 While he went ahead to direct Yet , I looked about me .
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