Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] went " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He had heard that Newgate was a hell-hole but now he experienced it first hand and understood why some prisoners went quickly insane . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Some Arabs went to Amman , Egypt , Lebanon or Syria . |
| 10 | Few cheapjacks went to the Tuesday market , but there were numerous stalls selling vegetables , fish , clothing and many other items . |
| 11 | Some observers went further and criticised him for seemingly assuming that progress from civil through political to social rights has been a painless historical process . |
| 12 | ‘ Some bands went down as we watched , ’ said Manchester trading standards officer Ian Simpson . |
| 13 | The Electricity Boards were generally reluctant to go further and show large surpluses in their accounts , for fear of criticism both from consumers and from workers in the industry , though some Boards went further than others in this direction . |
| 14 | Some writers went on to argue that attracting high ability youngsters into manufacturing industry was one of the conditions for a regeneration of the British economy . |
| 15 | Quite often curricular problems were related to inadequacies in materials and some advisers went so far as to suggest radical changes in resourcing and accommodation . |
| 16 | Though some Americans went on a spending spree in December to beat the new tax , its introduction will almost certainly hurt sales in 1991 . |
| 17 | Some noblemen went out as governors because they needed the money and , perhaps because they were habitually lavish about their spending , were usually rather popular . |
| 18 | Quite a few Girls went into variety acts , sometimes forming their own . |
| 19 | Some skins went further than the number one crop and had a ‘ dark shadow ’ , but at this time they were never bald . |
| 20 | Some tourists went to tramp through the ruined fields of the Somme in genuine homage to the memory of those who had died , but others went to gawp . |
| 21 | At that time few tourists went to Greece during the summer ; some goats wandered among the fallen pillars , the goat-herd dozed in the shade , otherwise I had the place to myself . |
| 22 | In practice few debtors went out , but the settlers were helped liberally with private and public funds administered by the charitable trust created to run the colony . |
| 23 | But some sunbathers went ahead regardless . |
| 24 | Some women went to work in insurance offices , again probably as clerks , a few found themselves in railway offices , and one worked in the offices of the Scotsman . |
| 25 | Although some strikes went ahead , the estimated 30,000 Russian workers in 18 enterprises who stopped work on May 21 were fewer than had participated in strikes for Russian minority rights in August 1989 [ see pp. 36854-55 ] . |
| 26 | He then went back to headquarters and together with some colleagues went and collected Mxenge 's car from the parking lot . |
| 27 | As such places went it was a clean , respectably furnished room , but it was a ‘ transient ’ all the same and , looking at him , she could not help but think he looked out of place there . |
| 28 | Sometimes , when drunk , he would regale me with stories of his footballing prowess , but such stories went past me like galley smoke because I could not bring myself to enquire , nor indeed to care , about the differences between a Tight End and a flea-flicker . |
| 29 | Such women went to doctors but rarely on their own account , largely because they could not afford to do so . |
| 30 | Such thoughts went with an idea of progress , at least in the past ; but such progress need not have been smooth , for the various faunas could easily have been destroyed and replaced in a series of catastrophes . |