Example sentences of "[vb past] and go [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rose and went to a bookcase , where leather-bound books were displayed . |
| 2 | He rose and went to the window , looking down the slope . |
| 3 | Then Abbot Radulfus rose and went to the altar . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The two men rose and went through the minister 's anteroom into his main office . |
| 6 | Edward rose and went into the hall . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Several researchers joined the group , masquerading as believers , and were thus present when midnight came and went without the prophecy being fulfilled . |
| 9 | People came and went along the street . |
| 10 | Julia felt too ill to be interested in what he was doing , and in any case her mind came and went as the waves of fever rose and fell , but she heard Comfort say : |
| 11 | The lorries came and went on a service road near the town ; on some days the bulldozer clanked back and forth , crushing the rubbish into the soft , orange earth . |
| 12 | CHRISTMAS CAME AND WENT WITH NO CARD FROM ELEANOR . |
| 13 | Though there were complaints in some places that 1 January 1913 came and went with no settlement in sight and though seamen on weekly boats in Hull were aggrieved at receiving less than their colleagues elsewhere , 2s.6d increases on weekly wages and 10s on monthly were fairly readily conceded , more in some places . |
| 14 | Norfolk police , too , reported that the flood waters were abating and in Kent the high tide came and went with no need for evacuation . |
| 15 | Prince Charles Edward Stuart , ‘ Bonnie Prince Charlie ’ , came and went with a song , 10,000 starving Highlanders , and 12,000 Glasgow shirts . |
| 16 | Oak forests came and went with the hawk 's wing |
| 17 | Managers came and went at an alarming rate ; there was Board Room take-over ; gates began to dwindle and the Palace were candidates for relegation from well before Christmas . |
| 18 | He would just came and went into the yardmaster 's office and had a word or two with him and then he would maybe ask to see the staff local representative and the local committee . |
| 19 | ( The Beans always came and went through the kitchen . ) |
| 20 | On the open deck in the stern , between life-jackets and coiled mooring ropes , prayer mats were laid out and men came and went throughout the day to pray towards the eastern shore . |
| 21 | Her sickness came and went throughout the day . |
| 22 | It was as if his seasons came and went in the phrases he wrote . |
| 23 | Martha and the Muffins and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark , both Wilson discoveries , came and went in the charts — and still negotiations dragged on . |
| 24 | School came and went in the way that a school day usually lasts . |
| 25 | He held no office , had no possessions , and came and went from the political arena at times of his own choosing . |
| 26 | From what she 'd gleaned from Janine he came and went like a bloody ghost , flitting in and out as it suited him . |
| 27 | The patients who recovered in these boxes and enclosures came and went like the inmates of any other busy casualty ward , but , of course , there were big differences : most importantly , there was no waiting list , and no one had to pay ! |
| 28 | The acid trip came and went like an image on a screen , sometimes faint , sometimes strong — music among the trees , Lori 's dark head singing , colours among the undergrowth , curling like lurid fog , light crowning the treetops , Lori seeming to move in a stately dance . |
| 29 | While the organisers tried to keep track of all those who attended the conference , many people came and went after the initial registration period . |
| 30 | God keep you , Solper , ’ he muttered and went towards the door just as Fitzosbert threw it open . |