Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] went " in BNC.
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| 1 | This whole area had blossomed as a great region for settlement , in which the Spanish language was steadily being forced upon the survivors of the original population and to which Spanish emigrants went out as regular reinforcements to maintain the conquests of Cones and Pizzano . |
| 2 | Members of political groups went on brief raids into its ranks , and returned with little except contempt for its prospects . |
| 3 | Easy-virtue Oscars went to Jo van Fleet in East of Eden ( 1955 ) , Dorothy Malone in Written on the Wind ( 1956 ) , Donna Reed in From Here to Eternity ( 1953 ) , Shirley Jones in Elmer Gantry ( 1960 ) , Liz Taylor in Butterfield 8 ( 1960 ) and Jane Fonda in Klute ( 1971 ) . |
| 4 | Uniformed cops went on shift in pairs , joking , or came off singly , depressed . |
| 5 | In the 1890s about 60 per cent of European emigrants went to the United States , but this proportion tended to drop while South America 's share grew steadily . |
| 6 | But it must never be forgotten that the political , economic , cultural transformation of the world by European influences went on right down to 1945 and beyond . |
| 7 | Spanish Jesuit missionaries went to Gujarat in 1921 . |
| 8 | New York was long known as the imperial city — the place that drilled tunnels and threw majestic bridges across the East and Hudson rivers , whose railway stations celebrated beaux-arts architecture , and where rich visionaries went to town with such mighty groups of buildings as the Rockefeller Centre . |
| 9 | But no , Bill then gave them another chance and another meeting , this time 120 skaters went along , and they came up with the following ramps : 20ft wide 6ft tall spine ramp , with the spine itself being 12 ft wide [ the other 8ft bit being platform ] , and another 12 ft wide mini ramp , plus street stuff like fun boxes etc . |
| 10 | After initially resisting the suspension , he and several hundred armed supporters went into hiding in the mountains north of Tuguegarao , the provincial capital of Cagayan . |
| 11 | Indeed , some Keynesians went so far as to say that money is unimport-ant since it only exerts an influence on economic activity via interest rates , and then without much success . |
| 12 | That 's why the workers ' weekly pennies went to pay men like Bobby to speak for them and that 's just what Bobby Keith could do best . |
| 13 | He had heard that Newgate was a hell-hole but now he experienced it first hand and understood why some prisoners went quickly insane . |
| 14 | The attack began when incendiary bombs went off on two floors of a museum in Shrewsbury Castle , Shropshire — causing £250,000 damage and destroying many irreplaceable relics of three famous regiments . |
| 15 | The extendible teeth went ‘ snap snap snap ’ . |
| 16 | When another few minutes went by she was scratching her head to try and think up some way of making sure that Naylor would consider any such notion laughable . |
| 17 | The experience of working with gifted teachers and heads in their early career , the sense that they have in some cases been given the benefit of working closely with other wise and successful teachers — particularly inside a religious order — the fact that they in some cases went away from teaching and , having had time to reflect in quite unrelated work , then saw that teaching was an obligation which they should meet — these are among the backgrounds which heads are prepared to reveal . |
| 18 | as new pro as old projects went we threw the old one away and we put a new leaf , loose-leaf sheet in . |
| 19 | The system was standardised in the early part of the sixteenth century , and some authorities went so far as to describe the cadency symbols for the ninth son of a ninth son ( an octofoil on an octofoil ) . |
| 20 | Some jews went in the opposite direction by expropriating a territory in Palestine ( on the grounds of an historical occupation ) to substantiate their claim to being a nation . |
| 21 | The Darling brothers went into the computer business while still teenagers . |
| 22 | In the south level 37,000 acres went under water , and the chief engineer of the Great Ouse catchment board considered it the worst fen flood since the time of Vermuyden . |
| 23 | Researchers who were interested in the way of life of what were regarded as primitive peoples went to live among them to study their societies from the inside . |
| 24 | Transport workers and some miners went on strike on Sept. 2 , affecting most airports , major railway junctions ( reportedly causing difficulties on Russia 's railways ) and 39 coal mines . |
| 25 | The rich young owner 's expensive brown shoes went away . |
| 26 | It pleased him to see the shock his words delivered , and before David could protest , he lied , ‘ You 've been a help to me since my old bones went crook , and I 'll see you get your dues when the time comes . |
| 27 | The main tax rates remained unchanged , while most tax allowances and excise duties were increased in line with inflation ( 7.7 per cent over the 12 months to December 1989 ) , although some duties went up by 10 per cent . |
| 28 | Some Arabs went to Amman , Egypt , Lebanon or Syria . |
| 29 | Few cheapjacks went to the Tuesday market , but there were numerous stalls selling vegetables , fish , clothing and many other items . |
| 30 | In January 1990 , 20 Fijian Indians went on trial in Lautoka in connection with the Australian arms haul . |