Example sentences of "went [adv] [adv prt] to " in BNC.

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1 That night El-ahrairah came out of the marshes of Kelfazin and went secretly up to the great ditch .
2 But anyway , er , you was saying er , th there then was a path which went eventually up to erm , the Boar 's Head on , on , the and there was a path across those fields all the way , a walk up there .
3 He sketched a slight , mocking bow and left her , and Merrill went slowly along to the cloakroom .
4 She went slowly along to the door she knew led into his study , and now it was Jenna 's brow that was creased in a frown .
5 Juliet went slowly along to the nurses ' station , where the trolley of files was kept .
6 Then she dried her eyes on the hem of her petticoat and went slowly back to the house .
7 Then he went slowly back to within two blocks of home , drove up the back lane and stopped before the old wooden garage which he had rented for so many years from Isobel Dawson .
8 I handed over my card , and went slowly back to Laura .
9 She went slowly back to the drawing-room to collect her sketch-pad and pencils , and all the time she kept telling herself that this was a really stupid thing to do .
10 She went slowly back to the kitchen .
11 Mr Hellyer gave him every assistance and afterwards went thankfully down to the pub for a few beers .
12 But it also went right up to the fifties .
13 Did n't we notice that her voice really was n't that strong when it went right up to the top storey ?
14 The problem went right up to the London board of the company , and it decreed that , in future , sums of money of any size should be handled only by European expatriate employees of the company .
15 So it went right up to ninety percent straight away .
16 With the piece of toast in her hand she went right up to the window and pushed it further open .
17 Peter went right up to him .
18 Margaret laughed again and went right up to Juliet , who held her breath .
19 The beat I had started in Garston village went right through to Speke .
20 I went right down to the sea 's edge , but the water was too cold for pleasure , so I retreated to the dry level and sat down to brush the sand off my feet and put on my shoes again .
21 Well , she went right down to a size ten when she lost all that weight before .
22 Why are you working on that on the stairs and anyway I went right down to the bottom !
23 Went right back to the rank of probationer .
24 Initially she went right back to the age of four and , although she could not tell me what year it was , she did know that there was a queen called Victoria .
25 But in between we should imagine a gap in the tageia : Plutarch ( On the Malice of Herodotus , xxi ) says that Leotychidas ‘ ended the tyranny ’ ( temporarily ) ; and if Echekratidas was a Spartan nominee whose tageia went right back to 476 his Athenian alliance is harder to explain .
26 My father , a cultivated man in every other respect , nursed a strong contempt for science which rubbed off on me and , I suspect , went right back to the Darwinian controversies of the nineteenth century , for he was the son of the manse .
27 I went right back to the top of the Wainui hill , but there was no trace of the pannier .
28 ‘ We went right out to the Blue Lagoon .
29 She went swiftly over to the door and had gone before he could answer .
30 ’ He seemed to sigh , and his eyes went starkly up to the spear-point .
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