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

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1	The father and daughter went slowly down the dark , narrow stairs to the kitchen .
2	I went swiftly down the hall to the front door , and eased its bolts open .
3	We went further down the slope to practise parachute landing falls and ground handling skills — everything you need to know before actually launching yourself off the side of a hill .
4	If they did not reach the very poorest , they went further down the scale than most model buildings , and provided the sort of accommodation the poor were used to , despite the introduction of a guardian and a gate to keep the transients at bay and the tenants up to scratch .
5	He went quickly up the metal staircase , leaving Amanda entangled with a group below .
6	He left school and went straight on the dole , like Derek probably will .
7	Mm , mm , cos of King 's Cross , had to come at all it 's awful and one time you just went straight on the escalator and now you 've got to go
8	Well we went straight on the motorway
9	He went straight up the stairs and a few minutes later came down carrying a parcel of his things .
10	The order of the day 's observances being immutable , whoever fell ill and whoever defaulted , the bell for Matins sounded in the dortoir as it did every midnight , and the brothers arose and went sleepily down the night stairs into the church .
11	With a sigh Theodora switched on her flashlight again , went softly down the room and played the beam cautiously round the sleeping figure .
12	Slowly , I got to my feet and went higher up the shore .
13	He went lightly down the hatchway and was gone , reappearing in a moment holding a shackling chain on either end of which was a clumsy iron ring , hinged and padlocked .
14	We went farther up the wasted beach , still finding interesting pieces of flotsam and finally coming to the rusted remnant I thought was a water-tank or a half-buried canoe , from a distance .

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