Example sentences of "[det] went [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within minutes another went off at the Planetarium next-door , followed by two more at the Imperial War museum . |
| 2 | I T T , yeah on the mo I 'll go and have a look , make sure it 's still here cos a few went out yesterday . |
| 3 | And eventually there was quite a few went back before they were paid for . |
| 4 | This went on for some time , but when it was finished , the daughter started crying again , this time tears of remorse , grieving for the mother who had died , and grieving for the relationship that she had never had . |
| 5 | ‘ … and moreover the most gallant gentleman of the realm , and this went on until it resulted in a divorce , and after a second marriage , which was likewise unhappy , she entered the married estate for the third time with a common tar , with whom , though he abused her daily , she herself said that she lived in much greater content than in her first marriage . |
| 6 | This went on for three hours , by which time they 'd attracted a sizeable body of fans into the hotel foyer , much to the consternation of the management who had to call the police to break up the party . |
| 7 | This went on for five whole days — |
| 8 | This went on for some time , until the dog 's master came to the door . |
| 9 | This went on for well over a month , with the owls flying free in the barn , until we were sure they were confident and happy in their surroundings . |
| 10 | This went on for three hours while the rest of us were preparing for the move to Canjuers . |
| 11 | Six weeks this went on ! |
| 12 | As this went on , the point of view without extension that was myself and The Fat Controller accompanied the product-of-the future as it was unloaded from the truck and heaped in a stall of warped boards . |
| 13 | This went on for about two hours , and then they got into their boats and sailed away . |
| 14 | And this went on for years this ? |
| 15 | Yes , this went on , it went on for about er three days , it went on for three days . |
| 16 | This went on for 13 months until my parents realised that I needed medical attention . |
| 17 | Ernie , who was employed by him , would go up on a Sun day to feed his stock and unbeknown to Dick Gooding would bring the old mule back with him , hitch him to the hand cart and pull it over to Birling Bank , this went on for some time and poor old Dick knew nothing of these goings on . |
| 18 | This went on for a long time . |
| 19 | And then borrow it again on a Friday or a Saturday and this went on for so long er he 'd eventually Tom said , by the way Jack , he said , whose pound note , whose pound is this ? |
| 20 | Julia felt she might not make the end of the week if this went on . |
| 21 | It would hurt to do it , to be without him , but she would have to if this went on too long , or he would destroy her emotionally , because she would have nothing left when he did finally tire of her . |
| 22 | This went on for two weeks . |
| 23 | This went on for some time , with Dr Neil fencing politely , Matey looking grim , and Norton sighing in counterpoint to la Darrell . |
| 24 | This went on until the sixteenth century when Henry VIII ordered his chief fruiterer , Richard Harris , to visit France and learn about apple cultivation . |
| 25 | This went on for about ten evenings and at the end of it all he had lost a stone in weight and had attracted the waterfowl from the entire county ! |
| 26 | Well , this went on and on until the pile of things Morag and Granny had cleared out of the cupboards was nearly all gone . |
| 27 | If this went on much longer , the real Robert Wilson might emerge — that awful , jelly-like creature that he had been hiding from the world for the last twenty-four years . |
| 28 | While all this went on , the parents sat around on the school 's battered garden furniture , the mothers watching each other warily , the fathers armoured in a remote mildness that Robert recognized from his own parent . |
| 29 | This went on for quite a while before it spoke again . |
| 30 | This went on for some time . |