Example sentences of "went [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then , with a sudden movement , his hand went back and something went speeding through the air . |
| 2 | From there they went darting across the boiling surface like a dragon-fly , skimming with the currents where the banks were swept too open and smooth to hold flotsam , swinging aside round the sergeant 's paddle in the marked spots ; round the shovel-shaped end of Eel Island , which had scooped up a full load of branches , twigs , uprooted grass , and even more curious trophies , but not what they were seeking ; a little way down the sluggish backwater beyond , until motion ceased in stagnant shallows , and still there was nothing ; out into the flood again , hopping back on to the current as on to a moving belt that whisked them away ; revolving out of the race again where the trees leaned down into the water at the curve by the Lacey farm , acting like a great , living grille to filter out debris ; clean across the width of the river at the next coil , to where the long , sandy shallow ran out and encircled a miniature beach . |
| 3 | Inevitably Jack came over the top of the ball , hit a combination of a pull and a hook and the ball went crashing into the trees left of the green . |
| 4 | Remember one day mummy forgot to put on your , your brake in the pushchair , Bobby , she went whizzing across the train Bobby ! |
| 5 | ’ He gave a sob , ‘ and she went rattling down the stairs to her room the way she always did and then I heard that awful sort of slither and Bunty 's scream … ’ |
| 6 | For the same motive Ackroyd is reluctant to broach the unfathomed topic of Dickens and sex ( once memorably described by John Carey as ‘ not a promising subject ’ ) : when Dickens went trawling through the prostitutional regions of Paris with Wilkie Collins , Ackroyd says that ‘ it is unlikely that Dickens himself ever took part in anything more than close observation ’ . |
| 7 | They both went galloping about the pinnacles like mad things . |
| 8 | He went tearing across the clearing . |
| 9 | In that instant it came to Ruth that he did know her ; but before she could be sure his hands left her shoulders and he went leaping round the side of the hummock , his long coat flapping , straight towards the spear men . |
| 10 | The children were too excited at the thought of presents to ask any more details and the merry little group went laughing up the stairs , Tamar giving no further thought to the man who had died . |
| 11 | After we finished that poem , late in the evening of 2 November , we went walking through the streets of Salamanca for most of the night , for the poem had persuaded us that something remarkable was really happening to us , that some kind of poetic grace had been bestowed upon us . |
| 12 | The most unlikely moment for Claire to talk about a day when she and her brother went walking across the land of a man who believed he 'd come back from the dead as a fox . |
| 13 | That first evening they went walking up the hill away from Marshall 's cottage , to a small plantation of aspen trees . |
| 14 | Where , went walking on the coral . |
| 15 | After leaving the chapel , they went walking in the gardens . |
| 16 | He went bounding up the stairs , three or four at a time , praying to himself the room had n't been taken over by some amorous couple while he 'd been away , cursing himself for doubting her . |
| 17 | All that went according to the plan . |
| 18 | Yet by no means everything went according to the management 's plans . |
| 19 | He kicked another stone , which went rocketing after the first one . |
| 20 | So Vasilissa crossed herself and went trembling among the trees . |
| 21 | However , if all members of a group went swimming at the same time and left valuables unattended , that would be an unnecessary risk where no real precautions had been taken and would be a breach of the duty of care . |
| 22 | Three of us went swimming in the rapids today . |
| 23 | Or I went swimming in the sea . |
| 24 | There was a great deal of encouragement and a helping hand for those finding it tough , mixed in with an occasional piece of mild blasphemy as yet another pilgrim went sprawling on the wet peat . |
| 25 | Although he had n't actually handled her particularly roughly , she lost her balance and went sprawling on the floor . |
| 26 | The young man and his sister went hunting in the wild woods , and the little tailor , whose inclination did not lie that way , stayed by the hearth and was merry with them in the evenings . |
| 27 | We went looking for the river . |
| 28 | I had walked a short distance along the track after passing the bend when the kakar went dashing up the hill , barking hysterically . |
| 29 | It was he who taught some of us how to use a .38 calibre revolver when we went hiking on the rolling prairies for shooting competitions , with gophers or tin cans as our main targets . |
| 30 | Cadfael left the messengers from Longner waiting uneasily within the gate , and went hurrying round the corner of the schoolroom to the penitential cells beyond , where deeper shadows were already filling the narrow passage to the wicket in the enclave wall , and the mill and the pool beyond . |