Example sentences of "[noun] went [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , the seven journalists went round the classrooms , looking at the well-scrubbed , well-fed , well-clothed children . |
| 2 | NEW low cost homes went on sale in Middlesbrough yesterday marking the start of a key housing projects linked with the town 's City Challenge cash bid . |
| 3 | The nature of the old system also illustrates the way ‘ notches ’ or ‘ traps ’ are introduced into the pay system in that as an employee moved from , say , £74 to £75 a week , NICs went from 2 to 7 per cent of all income . |
| 4 | Fabia was still in stunned surprise that her Volkswagen Polo was going to be towed by a Mercedes when the stranger went to the rear of her car and she had to snap out of her shock to steer . |
| 5 | Relations with the Vatican had been broken off in 1861 but Pope John Paul II visited Mexico in 1990 [ see p. 37475 ] while Salinas went to the Vatican in July 1991 . |
| 6 | When Stox went under it became a laughing stock . |
| 7 | After the 1987 election , Labour went through a contorted ‘ consultation ’ to find out what it should think . |
| 8 | The Oil , Labour and Social Affairs , Islamic Affairs , Commerce and Industry , Justice , and Education ministries went to deputies who ran broadly anti-government campaigns during the elections . |
| 9 | A large chunk of the £4 million investment went on improvements in the mill to increase production capacity — operations manager gives us the details . |
| 10 | The wider effects , as has been observed , were not measurable , though the export advantages were probably reduced to the extent that investment went to highly developed economies . |
| 11 | of inward investment went to the west midlands . |
| 12 | Most of the leading Conservatives who might have hoped to succeed him were disqualified as supporters of the Lloyd George Coalition , and the succession went to the relatively unknown Chancellor of the Exchequer , Stanley Baldwin . |
| 13 | Marion Conroy was on stage until the final curtain calls and came up the stairs with the rest of the cast afterwards , observing as she did that Pepper went into his No. 2 and shut the door but that Cissy opened it and went in after him , the wide-eyed babyish stare that was the caricaturists ' joy quite absent . |
| 14 | So the pictures went to the nation after all . |
| 15 | She said to Maurin : ‘ I never knew how you and Joseph decided which pictures went to the States and which were sold through your gallery . |
| 16 | when she makes her pictures went to doctor today |
| 17 | IN the early twenties the genre of the moving pictures went through the cultural life of the lieges of the auld toon of Glasgow , like a dose of the Epsom . |
| 18 | Congress , not so long ago we had Panorama and I T V , and I congratulate both of 'em , for highlighting to the world the problems of temporary and low paid part-time workers , where one agent went under cover and where Panorama highlighted that temporary working conditions , not of back-street sweatshops , not of the little corner shops down the road , or th or the little needlework factories , but of E M I , one of our biggest producers in this country , that they were employing labour for one year eleven months and twenty eight days and then sacking 'em . |
| 19 | When Dot went to bed that night , Gloria laid the fawn coat over the top of the blanket . |
| 20 | I thought to myself : ‘ Oh no ’ but Auntie Dot went into the fence and was brilliant at it . |
| 21 | ICL 's second trophy went to its Bracknell , Berkshire-based Mid Range Systems division for the volume of DRS 6000 series systems and associated Unix products and services shipped abroad — its revenues are reckoned to have trebled over the past three years to over £250m ; Cambridge-based IXI Ltd was recognised for its success in the open systems software arena with its X.desktop product for Unix , and Chalfont , Buckinghamshire-based Madge Networks Ltd , which ships its high performance Token Ring networking products across the world , and finds it necessary to kid the locals that it 's an American company when it is doing business in the US , also wins an Export award . |
| 22 | The Wallace Trophy went to Anita McCaw , from Royal Co Down , who pipped Bangor 's Valerie James right on the post ( one hole ) . |
| 23 | Three gold , five silver and a bronze was the final count from a dry run Commonwealth Games tournament in which the best boxer award , plus a magnificent trophy went to the tall 20-year-old Woodvale lad , Stephen Kirk . |
| 24 | There were derisory calls of a similar kind from the crowd long before the eighth round on Thursday as the fighters went to their corners after another three minutes of little more than dancing . |
| 25 | When Molly went to the Berlin Olympic Games in 1936 to translate for nuns from the college in Shanghai , recent graduates from the Medau Schule came to teach with Peggy , and plans were being made to establish a Medau Training College in England . |
| 26 | Nearly 140,000 workers in 53 jute mills across West Bengal went on strike on Jan. 28 demanding higher wages . |
| 27 | Michael Landon was plucked from the Ring Theatre Group to instant stardom in the television western series , ‘ Bonanza ’ ; Eddie Byrnes went into ‘ 77 Sunset Strip ’ and Robert Fuller was selected for ‘ Laramie ’ . |
| 28 | And that people who told porkies went into the oven , and serve them right so she 'd better watch out . |
| 29 | A study published last year by the Rand Corporation , a think-tank in California , found that 88% of the money spent by insurers went on legal fees and other paperwork costs . |
| 30 | At Ponte Taro the tram divided ; two cars went to Medesano , and two to Fontanellato and Busseto . |