Example sentences of "went [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought she was just being awkward until she slowly went downhill and became incontinent . |
| 2 | Cut off from the only social contact and emotional support he had known , he went downhill and ended up being arrested for stealing . |
| 3 | But if a war went badly and looked likely to drag on , that would be a calamity not just in its own right . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We went inside and waited : the minutes seemed like hours . |
| 6 | I went inside and saw a beautiful work which the artist had done on the other side . |
| 7 | Christina watched him leave the house and walk towards the beach before she went inside and dressed slowly , thinking about his reaction to her refusal to make love . |
| 8 | Next morning Sophie set off for Seabourne , and , after looking in the pet shop window , she went inside and strolled around . |
| 9 | He went inside and did the same . |
| 10 | ‘ Take care of yourself , kid , ’ Whitlock said softly then went inside and closed the sliding door behind him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We gazed , open-mouthed at the stately triple towers and the flying buttresses , then went inside and found the famous Lincoln Imp in the Angel Choir , and J. bought me a small silver imp for my charm bracelet . |
| 13 | I went inside and found the snake . |
| 14 | Then I went below and got a handkerchief and helped Hands tie up the great bleeding wound in his leg . |
| 15 | I went below and peered inside the cabin — a tiny fixed table with divan-type seats on either side . |
| 16 | Contentedly I went below and turned in for a few hours , leaving my colleague to navigate . |
| 17 | Karen went below and found a table in the cafeteria . |
| 18 | In tin and copper mining , as in coal mining , the demands of an industry becoming increasingly more capitalistic , as mines went deeper and draining technologies became more costly , meant a greater commitment from labour . |
| 19 | After an inauspicious début as part of a band , Amos went solo and relocated to London . |
| 20 | His work with The Miracles kept him in hits until 1972 , when he finally went solo and delivered the gorgeous Smokey , which might have promised more than it delivered but which ultimately — on ‘ Baby Come Close ’ , ‘ Just My Soul Responding ’ and the personal protest of ‘ Holly ’ — established him as the great single Romeo of modern soul . |
| 21 | I went outside and walked round the side of the house and into the orchard . |
| 22 | Afterwards we went outside and took photographs . |
| 23 | Agnes went outside and took a ladder from the out-house . |
| 24 | The man said he later went outside and saw a soldier lying on the road with others around him who seemed to be helping him or attending to him . |
| 25 | Harker punched and kicked the girl and when she escaped he smashed a window , went outside and began to smash the windows of her brother 's car . |
| 26 | Once it was finished we went outside and swept round the entire barrack block in an extended line , picking up litter from the damp grass . |
| 27 | Fierce Eyes went outside and came back excited . |
| 28 | I put on a spacesuit , went outside and moved to the big round door . |
| 29 | ‘ My husband Rob went outside and found Oliver lying on the floor saying his neck was hurting and he could not move . ’ |
| 30 | When the Welling director Graham Hobbins and his brother Barry , the secretary , found out , they immediately went outside and paid every kid the difference . |