Example sentences of "[noun pl] went [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Bloody filthy accumulating middle-class creeps " — and papers , jars , boots , rags went hurtling through the trap around Mary and Reggie . |
| 2 | Richard Wiles went to meet them at home . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Coaches and four and post chaises went thundering by in a lather of horses , their occupants cheering and whooping as each milestone was passed . |
| 5 | Several of his cousins and brothers went flying . |
| 6 | Rain did not think this was enough to suggest the brothers went to look for her and said so . |
| 7 | While his hungry young brothers went scampering past . |
| 8 | Just before my sister-in-law died , Jack and the kids went to see her . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He built his house in Majorca , where the kids went to stay , helping with the work and joining in discussion groups . |
| 11 | Blue magnesium flares went spiralling up into the chilly night . |
| 12 | Now I just do n't think that 's rea realistic , that 's different from saying you may have a bail system , cos that 's what I thought you were suggesting and for people to b come into the ring as pension fund managers , they would have to perhaps to put up securities of a million pounds each to o operate in this area and that if they behave badly , if funds went missing , if it was proved they were negligent , they would lose their million pounds bail , just as people lose bail when they do n't turn up to court . |
| 13 | In February 1943 two parties went to reconnoitre the Sicily beaches , after some frustration in Algiers . |
| 14 | The burglary happened at the end of February when Darlington Borough Council were changing locks at 500 old people 's flats after spare keys went missing . |
| 15 | Emergency teams were working round the clock to make the homes secure but the work was not finished until a week after the keys went missing . |
| 16 | The burglary happened at the end of February when Darlington Borough Council was changing locks at 500 old people 's flats after spare keys went missing . |
| 17 | Later the park 's bowling pavilion was ransacked , fire extinguishers let off and keys went missing . |
| 18 | But you get in nowhere without a pass , applications for which are vetted by the Special Branch , and this year hundreds of passes went missing and had to be queued for . |
| 19 | Thinking it was some practical joke by Vigilant , our engineers went to accuse Vigilant 's crew , but noticed smoke pouring our of our engine room . |
| 20 | Her shoes went flying as she kicked them off her feet . |
| 21 | My parents went to visit the Rajput States while we boys continued to go for rides in the mornings and picnics in the afternoons . |
| 22 | The Lorrimores , all four of them , arrived together to murmurs of sympathy , but the two young ones split off immediately from their parents and from each other , all of them gravitating to their various havens : the parents went to join Filmer and Daffodil of their own free will , Xanthe made a straight piteous line to Mrs Young , and Sheridan grabbed hold of Nell , who was by this time standing , saying that he needed her to sit with him , she was the only decent human being on the whole damn train . |
| 23 | Niki went fishing for another drive , and thought he had one at Renault ; but the big-manufacturer politics of that season and Gerard Larrousse 's increasing weakness therein , sabotaged that : Niki was kept dangling , offered the drive and then dropped . |
| 24 | My feet went numb down on the mud . |
| 25 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 26 | Books were not returned , articles went missing and I disapproved silently . |
| 27 | This arose as the UK government wished to ensure that the UK share of Community fishing quotas went to benefit UK fishers . |
| 28 | When the Indians went hunting , whether for animals or for rival Indians , their firepower was deadly . |
| 29 | So I would , I and a couple of the fellas went to pull them to the aeroplane graveyard . |
| 30 | Commendations went to vet Miss Jackie Paterson , RSPCA officer Mr Ian Jackson and Blue Watch from Darlington fire station . |