Example sentences of "went [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She washed her face and went wearily back to look out for him , but she was losing hope . |
| 3 | She took her drink to the salon , where the remains of the fire still glowed , and after a while she put on the lamps and went slowly across to look at the paintings . |
| 4 | Her hand went so quickly to cover her profile and her mouth became so taut , he thought she was going to weep with the same energy . |
| 5 | Three , you went all out to persuade me to call Sandy to break the news about Ed 's murder . |
| 6 | I went , I went all out to get this place in nineteen eighty three |
| 7 | In the London County Council elections of 1937 the Party " went all out to secure a Labour victory " . |
| 8 | Stella went bad-temperedly downstairs to borrow a box from the doorkeeper . |
| 9 | And we went away up to gather the violets . |
| 10 | He turned away , and went downstairs again to drink at the bar . |
| 11 | Those who adopted the third and final position — although the arguments were rarely in practice as clear as this — went further still to argue that pupils should be brought together not only under one roof , not only studying one curriculum , but also within mixed-ability groups . |
| 12 | One of the Australian diggers on the other hand went home early to apply his newly won knowledge to his home state of New South Wales . |
| 13 | He pulled on his trousers and went quickly over to turn up the music , moving his head from side to side in time to the beat . |
| 14 | It was all too obvious what her plot was and she went straight away to see Mrs Browning , resolved to ask outright if Ferdinando was to go to France and if so to plead her case . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , that 's over , ’ he said , and went straight upstairs to change out of his good suit . |
| 16 | After a restless night of tossing and turning on lumpy , wet French soil , Charlie was woken at four , and in turn kicked Tommy , who simply turned over and went straight back to sleep . |
| 17 | They went straight in to land at Luqa , but as they approached saw bombs bursting on the runway — they had arrived in the middle of a raid ! |
| 18 | Sympathy was with the generals rather than the Prime Minister , hardly surprisingly in view of past events , but sympathy never went far enough to weaken Lloyd George 's position greatly . |
| 19 | It is now clear that the King had the gravest doubts about the general suitability of his heir for the Throne , and that these doubts went far enough to turn his mind towards the desirability of getting his second son to succeed instead . |
| 20 | If we went high enough to use a ‘ chute we 'd be picked up on radar immediately after taking off . ’ |
| 21 | Fine moondust billowed high across the ancient plains of the moon 's dark crescent , expanding in boiling clouds that went high enough to catch the rays of the sun . |
| 22 | He also had difficulties with Bishop Ælfstan of Rochester , whose diocese he ravaged in 986 , and Bishop Æthelsige of Sherborne , who incurred the king 's anger , was expelled from his see , and went abroad never to return . |
| 23 | Lucien , however , liked the comparative privacy of the court and , once he 'd become familiar with the routines of the household and felt confident enough to venture around alone , went there often to limber up for an hour before his own breakfast . |
| 24 | I pinned it to the corkboard with a red drawing pin and a light heart , and went upstairs again to change back into jodhpur boots to deal with the terrain and to pick up the map and the compass in case I could n't find the trail . |
| 25 | Skelton and Everest Major Wager , who had been unlucky not to reach the jump-off of the Volvo showjumping World Cup round , went flat out to overtake Whitaker on Henderson Grannusch in the Grand Prix . |
| 26 | Once the client was in a position to show that it had received independent legal advice to the effect that the law was uncertain it went ahead alone to achieve its chosen objective . |
| 27 | He went very willingly to watch Everton Football Club , and to the Parish Club where they played billiards and practised with dumbbells and a punchball , and to greyhound racing . |
| 28 | A few hours earlier two more big bombs were found as the country 's commercial capital went determinedly back to work three days after the blasts that killed at least 250 people . |
| 29 | Refusing to let herself think beyond the tasks she was performing , Leonora listened to the radio as she worked , and when the meal was well advanced she went quietly upstairs to find the bathroom empty , and Penry , fully dressed in fresh clothes , fast asleep on his bed . |