Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] went " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thrust of this was that if the passenger liability suits went against Pan Am , the airline would seek to recover the cost of the compensation awards from the government on the grounds that the Flight 103 disaster had been due to the misconduct of government agencies . |
| 2 | Jean-Claude Hirel , the head of the government 's electronics division , cites the lack of spending as one reason why the previous electronics plans went wrong . |
| 3 | So the base kids went to base schools and the base moms shopped at base shops and the base officers toured the base cocktail-party circuit . |
| 4 | Alciston itself acted as the gathering place for surrounding parishes , and it was there that the wool merchants went to do their trading until the mid-fourteenth century . |
| 5 | A set of four covered Quianlong Chinese porcelain vases went for FFr 1,310,000 ( est . |
| 6 | This arose as the UK government wished to ensure that the UK share of Community fishing quotas went to benefit UK fishers . |
| 7 | Twenty-five trunk lines went into Chicago and most of them had attendant freight and passenger depots . |
| 8 | Tranmere Rovers went nap in front of their biggest gate of the season to inflict a heavy defeat on promotion chasing West Ham . |
| 9 | Fifteen thousand car workers went on strike this week , the stockmarket fell to its lowest point in eighteen months and property speculation has forced rents beyond the reach of many . |
| 10 | Post Office and health workers staged warning strikes , and in the Fier district , oil industry workers went on strike from Nov. 13 , despite an earlier strike having been deemed illegal on Nov. 4 at a meeting of the Council of Ministers . |
| 11 | Three of the four opposition seats went to the Singapore Democratic Party ( SDP ) and one to the Workers ' Party . |
| 12 | The pack horse trains went regularly to Kendal , Ambleside , Ulverston and other more distant markets . |
| 13 | The voices rose to a piercing shriek , and the crowd of silver helmets went flooding in pursuit , chasing both of them down the dunes to the sea . |
| 14 | That night as the lights dimmed across the Clyde valley and the blackout curtains went up , the future of the great city of Glasgow , its children , tried to sleep in faraway beds on the other side of the darkened hills and starless lochs . |
| 15 | Stock levels in maintenance stores went down , reducing working capacity by $100,000 . |
| 16 | The tracksuit tops went into the back , on top of the Skorpion machine-pistol . |
| 17 | Eighty-one refugee children went to Bunce Court , the school Anna Essinger had brought over from the Schwäbische Alb mountains of the Danube to Otterden , a large manor house standing in twenty-five acres of Kent countryside . |
| 18 | how my blood tests went and er |
| 19 | Last box of spring greens went off horrible . |
| 20 | When the borough treasurers went on holiday , say City folk , so did the money brokers who brought all this business to the banks . |
| 21 | In Brittany by contrast matters went very much according to plan . |
| 22 | Not only will it have moderated the neutrons like the graphite rods in a reactor , but when the uranium pockets went critical the organics were cooked in temperatures reaching 160–360°C . |
| 23 | ( Contributions were taken from the medieval players , and fines collected for poor workmanship and the infringement of guild rules went towards financing the plays , and the more prosperous the guild the more elaborate their pageant . ) |
| 24 | And then every year after that , they used to hold the one minute 's silence which the mill whistles went and of course you stood for a minute and then they went again and that was it over . |
| 25 | Tennis shoes went toc-toc-toc . |
| 26 | Ever wondered where the old door-to-door encyclopaedia salesmen went ? |
| 27 | SWAPO loyalists were also concerned that top police and intelligence posts went to former security chiefs of the previous transitional government . |
| 28 | Although about a hundred rugby balls went into the sea on game days none were ever seen floating on the water for long . |
| 29 | News of impending bread rationing created panic buying and on Thursday 23 February , International Women 's Day , female textile workers went on strike and demonstrated , closely followed by metal workers concentrated in the most militant and solidly proletarian quarter of Petrograd , the Vyborg district . |
| 30 | The unrest began on May 5 as textile workers went on strike in support of a pay demand . |