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  • They drew out their swords, and to cutting they went,

    Ridley Scott's Maid Marian for our time 2010

  • I liked one the lyrics of one of John's songs that went,

    OpEdNews - Diary: To Whom It May Concern 2009

  • She leapt up from the table and hurtled from the room, shouting as she went,

    Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

  • So they went down past the herds of deer, by a trim-kept path into the lonely dell where stood the fatal oak; and, as they went,

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • The porter, who was greatly pleased by her appearance and voice, jumped up at once, poised his basket on his head, and accompanied the lady, saying to himself as he went,

    Still Separate & Unequal Fredrickson, George M. 2005

  • And Apollo, folding his flute into his pocket, felt that he had acquitted himself with honour; and the archdeacon pleasantly jingled his gains; but the meagre doctor went off without much audible speech, muttering ever and anon as he went,

    The Warden 2004

  • You frustrated all my little plan by your early rising; and as I saw you standing on the terrace, looking after us as we went,

    The Small House at Allington 2004

  • And they took it up and carried it back to the town, singing as they went,

    The Violet Fairy Book 2003

  • After a while, a waitress, free for the evening, passed under the balcony on her way to the town -- she sang as she went,

    The Apples of Hesperides, Kansas 1996

  • It has been a normal year except for that small hurricane that passed near us, that mysterious hurricane that no one knows where it went,

    HAVANA PCC MEETING DISCUSSES CONSTRUCTION 1987

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