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Example sentences for "and went"

  • He seemed to hesitate whether to apologise, met my eyes, and went on: "There's food all about here.

  • You'll hear more yet," I said, and went on to my home.

  • After a while I left them, and went on to the railway station to get as many morning papers as I could.

  • I took a cigar, and went upstairs to look at the lights of which he had spoken that blazed so greenly along the Highgate hills.

  • He became alarmed at the news in this, and went again to Waterloo station to find out if communication were restored.

  • From behind the waggon a bright scarlet spot emerged, and went on loading unconcernedly with the rest.

  • Liddy closed the door, and went on: "People always say such foolery, miss.

  • Just before the clock struck five Gabriel Oak and Coggan passed the village cross, and went on together to the fields.

  • The woman looked over the gate, opened it, and went in.

  • Then Oak went back again, ascended to the top, stepped off the ladder for greater expedition, and went on thatching.

  • Then becoming aware that she had not obscured the windows she came forward to do so, candle in hand.

  • Fewer women like marriage than you suppose, only they enter into it for the dignity it is assumed to confer, and the social advantages it gains them sometimes--a dignity and an advantage that I am quite willing to do without.

  • Jude relinquished his hold, and she crossed the room to the door, out of which she went with a set face, and into the highway.

  • I carry it about everywhere with me, and it will get hatched in less than three weeks.

  • Some of the guests, however, fell asleep in their chairs.

  • The compartment that she served emptied itself of visitors, and after a brief thought he entered it, and went forward to the counter.

  • Seeing a trough of water near he bathed his face, and went on to the cottage of his great-aunt, whom he found breakfasting in bed, attended by the woman who lived with her.

  • Jude was exasperated, and went out to drag her in by main force.

  • With this shadow on his mind he did not care to show himself in the village, and went homeward by a roundabout track behind a high hedge and across a pasture.

  • But the Sheep only laughed scornfully, and went on with her knitting.

  • Hatta looked round and nodded, and went on with his bread and butter.

  • So she brushed away her tears, and went on as cheerfully as she could.

  • So they drove downtown and stopped before an imposing granite building, in which they interviewed an official, who had the papers all ready, with only the names to be filled in.

  • This makes it a cause for congratulation that by modern methods a very few men can do the painfully necessary work of head-cracking for the whole of the cultured world.

  • Chapter 2 Jurgis talked lightly about work, because he was young.

  • The painting of cans being skilled piecework, and paying as much as two dollars a day, Marija burst in upon the family with the yell of a Comanche Indian, and fell to capering about the room so as to frighten the baby almost into convulsions.

  • Jurgis took it without a word, and went out of the door and down the street.

  • But Marija was not to be prevailed upon, and went on planning and dreaming of all the treasures she was going to have for her home; and so, when the crash did come, her grief was painful to see.

  • So he tied up his feet, and went on limping about and coughing, until at last he fell to pieces, all at once and in a heap, like the One-Horse Shay.

  • Her husband let her alone as she requested, and went away to his office.

  • Certainly he smiled back, and went up and talked to her.

  • Madame Ratignolle kissed Edna good-night, and went away, being in truth rather desirous of joining in the general and animated conversation which was still in progress concerning Mexico and the Mexicans.

  • Madame Ratignolle was very fond of Mrs. Pontellier, and often she took her sewing and went over to sit with her in the afternoons.

  • She waved a dissenting hand, and went on, paying no further heed to their renewed cries which sought to detain her.

  • Tom's old ornery corn-cob pipe had got so old and swelled and warped that she couldn't hold together any longer, notwithstanding the strings and bandages, but caved in and went to pieces.

  • But no, he was in real earnest, and went right on, perfectly ca'm.

  • I got up, brought the lamp, and went into a shed to look at some kegs I had seen there.

  • I dismissed my three serfs with a wave of the hand, and went up the beach into the thickets.

  • He left me abruptly, and went up the beach past this group, and I think entered the enclosure.

  • All day I watched that sail, eating or drinking nothing, so that my head reeled; and the Beasts came and glared at me, and seemed to wonder, and went away.

  • Then with a rustle a rabbit emerged, and went scampering up the slope before me.

  • What could they see to gaze at in my house, I wondered, and went in.

  • For a long while I came as far as this shooting, and went no farther.

  • I’ve had enough for this time,” says he, and he got up staggering, and went off by the way that he had come.

  • She smiled at me, and went back to the dishes, with her sister.

  • After supper, when grandfather set off to church, grandmother and I took my short cut through the willow hedge and went over to hear about the visit to the Shimerdas'.

  • Most men were game, and went without a grudge.

  • That afternoon, while I was asleep, Antonia took grandmother with her, and went over to the Cutters' to pack her trunk.

  • He chased them till he was tired, and then he curled himself up and went to sleep on the hollows of the ground swell that sets in to Copper Island.

  • If Darzee had helped they might have turned her, but Nagaina only lowered her hood and went on.

  • He looked at her again, and went, without any sort of leave-taking.

  • She left him alone, and went to get Annie a spin of toffee.

  • One young man lapsed into a run down the steep bit that ended the hill, and went with a crash into the stile.

  • At five, sometimes earlier, he woke, got straight out of bed, and went downstairs.

  • The boys needed no second invitation, and went in with great zeal for the eatables; and it was well they did so, as otherwise there would have been very little performed to any purpose by the party.

  • Tom rose up, and went forward to offer his service in wooding, and soon was busy among the hands.

  • The blood flushed to Eliza's cheek in a sudden glow, and went back to her heart with as sudden a rush.

  • I tell you, she squeezed up her child in her arms, and talked, and went on real awful.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "and went" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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