Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] went " in BNC.
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1 | As unification approached many of the 4,250 prisoners in East German prisons rioted or went on rooftop protests or hunger strike in support of demands for a general amnesty on Oct. 3 . |
2 | ‘ That is not your business ! ’ she shouted and went upstairs to dress for the evening . |
3 | She pushed it off , rose and went to look out of the window to see what the weather was like . |
4 | Moran rose and went outside . |
5 | He rose and went to a bookcase , where leather-bound books were displayed . |
6 | She rose and went to her aunt and put her arms round her shoulders . |
7 | The two men rose and went through the minister 's anteroom into his main office . |
8 | No , that was not what Jean-Claude had in mind , and he rose and went inside a played a few bars of something by Scriabin . |
9 | He rose and went to the window , looking down the slope . |
10 | Then Abbot Radulfus rose and went to the altar . |
11 | Elizabeth waited for a moment as though for someone else to open the door and then rose and went to do so herself . |
12 | Edward rose and went into the hall . |
13 | He rose and went next door to find the girl he knew would be sleeping there . |
14 | The Scarabae rose and went like some collective creature , some sort of amoeba with Ruth its glowing heart , into the drawing room . |
15 | She rose and went to the window , still in the half-real state induced by daytime sleeping , and looked out at the darkening world where the yellow glow of a lamp in the yard showed Jem was milking . |
16 | Cranston roared as he rose and went to fetch the boots standing in the comer . |
17 | Couville rose and went across to a long leaden tube . |
18 | Then she rose and went over to the bed , pulled back the covers and slipped between the cool , fresh sheets . |
19 | She made a belated grab for her wits while Guy rose and went to answer the summons , exchanging a few murmured words with whoever was on the other side of the door . |
20 | Having made up her mind , she rose and went to shower and change . |
21 | But Charles dithered and went off to sea . |
22 | He stopped and went on in a low voice , ‘ I came back early from school and when I came in I saw she 'd been crying . ’ |
23 | He put the letter in his Out tray and moved on to another piece of paper , and then he stopped and went back to the first letter . |
24 | I could , I used to run it down and er , and that 's the only reason me mother would let me , but they was pleased as punch when I stopped and went and worked for me dad again . |
25 | She stopped and went to look out of the window . |
26 | about three years ago he uprooted and went to Guildford . |
27 | Beside TV , other media that came or went look mouselike . |
28 | We obeyed and went in to sit in a sombre half-circle round the fire . |
29 | Dissidents like Francis Pym came and went ; his banner of revolt , The Politics of Consent ( 1984 ) , a cool , rational argument in favour of ‘ consensus ’ , failed to spark a Heathite revival . |
30 | The forms of criminal or lawless activity which have followed the civil rights movement which came and went in 1969–71 will disappear as and when there is a general conviction that there is going to be one society and one particular sort of society in Northern Ireland — that is to say , one state , one particular sort of state , and no other . |