Example sentences of "she went [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when she had washed her hair and dressed in a new pair of designer jeans and a silk shirt that had been a Christmas present and which she 'd never worn before — it was n't to Eva 's house that she went but back down into the town , towards the theatre and the Franz Joseph . |
| 2 | Then she went and spoiled everything by behaving as if pissed , lurching backwards and forwards till she ended up hanging upside down from my finger , gripping so tightly she almost drew blood . |
| 3 | And then of course , silly girl , she went and told him — he was so livid he would n't have nothing more to do with her . " |
| 4 | Jean : When Mrs B told Julie to go back to her own country she went and told Mrs C ( the deputy headmistress ) , Mrs C said that Mrs B was depressed because her husband was dying . |
| 5 | She went and told Jenny . |
| 6 | So she went and told her she said |
| 7 | Course , she went and told Geoff she was coming and Geoff kicked up then so Geoff and Paul are coming now . |
| 8 | No she went and had the abortion but she had the child eventually . |
| 9 | Starting to feel a little frazzled round the edges , she went and had a bath , donned a nightdress and cotton wrap , and brushed out her hair . |
| 10 | anyway she went and had it done and erm she was upset after she had it done like it must of hurt you know she was crying |
| 11 | And then she went and wrote it down , she goes , here are . |
| 12 | He says , I know , Carmen used to go crackers that 's why she went and fetch him here . |
| 13 | As they carried Robbie into the yard she glanced towards the staircase door and wondered if she should ask them to wait a moment until she went and got a coat and hat . |
| 14 | Well , she went and got the Deputy Head and she was a bit upset about it , and then after that our biology group was chopped right down , more or less cut in half , and most of the boys went somewhere else to do their biology while the rest of us stayed with that teacher and we got on a lot better then , you know . |
| 15 | She went and got her raincoat . |
| 16 | She helped him to the kitchen , as that seemed to be the best place for him for the moment , and sat him down at the kitchen table while she went and got a towel . |
| 17 | She went and took a grey pleated skirt from her case and zipped herself into it . |
| 18 | Finally she went and took the phone out of his hand . |
| 19 | Well , why would n't it ? she questioned as she went and took a seat on the settee in front of the tea-tray — she was in Prague , and she felt happy . |
| 20 | Then she went and took a quick shower . |
| 21 | Down she went and came back with the cups of tea and slices of cake on a tray . |
| 22 | And then , would you believe it , she went and married him . |
| 23 | She went and picked it up . |
| 24 | She went and picked our Kia up and went back to Bill 's . |
| 25 | Whenever he complained too much about cost she went and bought what she needed with her own money . |
| 26 | So she went and bought some in Lincoln and came back the next day and got down on her knees and cleaned it all up . |
| 27 | Some time after breakfast she went and bought a picture postcard to send home . |
| 28 | Jill wanted to get Bill a birthday present , so she went and found her piggy-bank ; she shook it , but there was no noise ; she would have to make Bill a present This example comes from work in artificial intelligence ( Charniak , 1972 ) which is concerned with the attempt to translate the significance of ordinary utterances into an explicit representation that might be used by a computer to produce " intelligent " responses . |
| 29 | She went and found Bob . |
| 30 | She went and poured coffee from the pot on the tray she had put on his desk . |