Example sentences of "[adv] went the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ S. and S. Joinery , Stoke-on-Trent , ’ she snapped and down went the receiver . |
| 2 | This was a bar that er went under the bomb like that when they fastened them up , and then when they dropped the bombs this bar was in a clip , like where me finger is , i in a clip so when they released them it dropped out of this clip the bar went as well of course , down that went down went the bomb drop bars with it used to be make them day and night and things like that and er of course there was er Bloxwich Lock and Stamping we used to do odd stamping , odd forgings and things li and er that was other part of the war work . |
| 3 | He took his violin and played some Christmas church music and down went the bull on his knees ! |
| 4 | So went the old rhyme . |
| 5 | Reviews were mixed but largely went the way of those who saw it as a one-and-a-half-hour commercial for LSD . |
| 6 | Convincing enough to persuade the Germans that London had kept to the bureaucratic niceties , the stamp of approval was secured and away went the train . |
| 7 | Away went the rocket with Scott and his friends inside . |
| 8 | Over went the helm . |
| 9 | They did n't go to playgroup sessions , but they just went the mums and toddler session . |
| 10 | A Canterbury Tale ( 1944 ) centres , like Went the Day Well ? , around a sinister village squire . |
| 11 | His attitude to any form of authority was irreverent to say the least , and a story still went the rounds of how , at the age of fifteen , he won a sporting scholarship to a relatively new and very expensive boarding school . |
| 12 | So off went the mouse , as he held the cake fast , |
| 13 | Off went the man into the woods only to return screaming for help with a huge grizzly gaining on him with every stride . |
| 14 | Off went the van with my home packed in |
| 15 | We always went the other way did n't we ? |
| 16 | After a low-key opening day , the Aberdeen tournament burst into life on finals night when Alison Bowie beat Emma Donaldson in a five-game women 's final , and then Peter Nicol inflicted defeat on Mark Maclean in the men 's decider that also went the full distance . |
| 17 | Sure enough , the twenty-minute time pencils activated the detonators and up went the aircraft . |
| 18 | Up went the yellow flag . |
| 19 | But er if you had to paper the parlour was always papered in the ceiling but he kitchen was always whitewashed because we had these , if I explain to you these er fireplaces that er were n't very successful burning coal you know and the smoke would rise and before you knew where you were the ceiling was black again so sort of every so often up went the whitewash brush and you 'd whitewash the the ceiling . |
| 20 | Up went the visor . |
| 21 | At the end of every round off came the gold knob and up went the stick . |
| 22 | ( b ) For emphasis : Down came the rain and up went the umbrellas . |
| 23 | As the novelist E. M. Forster was to put it in the Indian summer of the bourgeoisie : ‘ In came the dividends , up went the lofty thoughts . ’ |
| 24 | In line with this cosmetic policy , out went the sjambok , the rhino-hide whip used by police . |
| 25 | So out went the playful jean and mechanic 's dungarees and in came haute couture , designer wear from around the world she was about to begin a campaign to conquer . |
| 26 | In the wake of Fortress Wapping out went the closed shop , restrictive practices , collective bargaining , hot-metal technology and Sogat , NGA and NUJ power . |
| 27 | Out went the Lovebooks set up by Miles and John Hopkins ; its new holding company was KNULLAR , which could be , the paper suggested in August , the ‘ Karmic Neo-Universal League for Liberty and Reality ’ ; but to a Swede , It pointed out ‘ it could mean something entirely different ’ — ‘ fuck ’ to be precise . |
| 28 | But with police assistance , out went the occupiers , off to set up the one and only edition of the International Free Press from a distributors ' warehouse off Old Street . |
| 29 | out went the feeder and after three or four chucks the tip went round . |
| 30 | And on and on went the machines , backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards , never slowing , never slacking , never tiring , backwards and forwards , back — |