Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] went [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one of them he found a collection of cheque stubs and account books that went back to the 1940s . |
| 2 | They climbed back into the jeep and went on along the rutted lane , lurching and splashing through deep puddles , the Brigadier worrying audibly all the way because ‘ things were n't as they should be . ’ |
| 3 | Gordon sat quite still for a few seconds , then uncrossed his legs and went out of the room , a room in his own house , or rather his mother 's . |
| 4 | Slowly he rose from his seat and went over to the headmaster who stood twisting the piece of white chalk between his fingers . |
| 5 | She put the scarf back round her neck and went through to the shop . |
| 6 | Patrick took his tea and went up to the first floor , to the long landing window which looked over the village green . |
| 7 | Steve picked up his sandwich and went over to the television set where he sat eating it while he watched the news . |
| 8 | Charles shuffled through his pockets for a two p piece and went down to the phone . |
| 9 | She grabbed her handbag and went through to the bathroom . |
| 10 | He again eased himself out of the narrow space of the breakfast nook and went over to the kitchen counter , looked at the parcel and looked at his wife , who was now almost hysterical : He decided that he must be courageous and investigate , so he unwound the paper towels , picked up the books one by one and read their titles . |
| 11 | Birkett shrugged his shoulders and went on with the fish cakes . |
| 12 | He waited another second , then shrugged his shoulders and went in through the double doors . |
| 13 | Here , in an empty silence , he unpacked his bicycle panniers and went up to the pantry where the bulk of the xerox squatted amongst unsavoury tea-towels beside a tea-stained sink . |
| 14 | ‘ Be our guest , ’ said Noolan and went back into the social room leaving the large figure , head wreathed in cigarette smoke , seated at the top of the big committee sized table . |
| 15 | At the well they left their books and went down to the shore . |
| 16 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
| 17 | So the days were unhappy and the nights a bleak nothingness , and although I never actually put a rope around that pulley , nor loaded my shotgun and went out into the field and dug my own grave — as I had visualized so often — nor started my engine in the garage , yet I thought about all three , and on occasions I thought about one or other for days at a time . |
| 18 | She gave no reply but went on through the store-room , whose walls were lined with shelves , some holding bottles of sweets , others boxes of all sizes , then through another door and into a corridor , from which , six feet to the right of her , a door led into the store-room of the tobacconist shop . |
| 19 | ‘ I ca n't believe I am being blamed for a fight that went on in the stand behind us , and I hope video evidence will clearly back me up . ’ |
| 20 | In recent months the residents of the area around the bar had been complaining almost nightly to the police about the noise that went on until the small hours and about the hypodermics left strewn around the piazza , a serious health hazard to the children who played there during the day . |
| 21 | I think this is one of the essentials in Harlow and something that people should not forget , that is that , although there is a great deal of criticism possibly of the standard of building that went on over the years of the Development Corporation , compared with what most people came from , there was a very great elevation both in quality and in ideas . |
| 22 | Only in London and Liverpool was there any tradition of Mat building that went back to the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | The soul-searching that went on in the security community , in the think tanks and universities throughout the United States in 1990 gives some hint of that ‘ sense of loss ’ . |
| 24 | Australia 's captain Phil Kearns is a confirmed fan , revealing : ‘ We talked about no shoving in the front row before the kick-off , but after five minutes that went out of the window . |
| 25 | An advertising campaign that went on about the law of averages did n't seem to help when much of the press criticism rounded on the Escort as exactly a car for Mr Average . |
| 26 | They left the goose in the dairy and went back along the passage and through a swing door with baize on one side into a wide , dark hall where a grandfather clock ticked in one corner and a small oil lamp threw shadows . |
| 27 | He was unable to find work and went back to the North to be near his little boy . |
| 28 | Last weekend we booked a 55-seater coach and went down to the youth soccer international at Wembley between England and Italy and had a marvellous time . ’ |
| 29 | She put him in the cubicle and went back to the nursing station to phone the physiotherapy department . |
| 30 | Mark crossed the imposing entrance hall and went out for the last time . |