StringNet search result

Example sentences of "went [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	If he went that way , he 'd go right into the range of Jack 's gun .
2	It was some years before I went that way again , and something had happened .
3	Xanthe Lorrimore got up from the table after a while and went that way , and presently came back screaming .
4	But the reason he went that way yesterday was because it was cheaper at that supermarket .
5	Quiss went that way .
6	‘ No , sir , but the food and clothes were gone when I next went that way , ’ Barrymore told me .
7	She took no pains to be silent as she turned back and went that way .
8	Because on the evidence before us it seems to me it 's hard to understand why they went that way .
9	Then you put it on the window sill for people to admire so heaven knows how many went that way . ’
10	You just went that way .
11	it went they were racing like that , and a car come that way , so went that way
12	hit the front of the car and she went that way , and she finished up in the hedge
13	Aye , but in that lounge , when I when I went that lounge it was , they were the sort of people that bloody do n't open the curtains !
14	When he returned she asked : ‘ Do you know where the Josephs went that evening ? ’
15	Was it you who went bloody hell ?
16	And Tish went bloody hell !
17	Went bloody hell !
18	He went fiery red , hands clenched at his sides .
19	‘ But it became obvious that we were n't posing enough of a threat to get them through the bottle neck and as a result they dived and went hell-for-leather back into Scapa Flow .
20	Laura McCaffrey went dry slope skiing at Calshot Activities Centre , .
21	However , during our visit to India he had been constantly with us , and in Jaipur I had experienced a gratifying sense of shared adventure ; but it was perhaps in the camp where we went each year from the Legation for an eagerly awaited ten days that I remember him most vividly .
22	Then , unexpectedly , he invited Brian and me to stay in Northumberland where he had taken a grouse moor for the summer ; thereafter we went each year until he died , first to Otterburn and then to Wark .
23	It was there that they went each summer , in Shiva 's holidays , their fares paid by Sabine Schnitzler who , having reverted to her maiden name and largely to her native tongue , sometimes wore a surprised , even bewildered , look at being surrounded , as she put it , by ‘ all those Indians ’ .
24	Yes , well cos you see , I mean , you see you begin life as erm your , your shop was the corner shop erm you know the shop was the Co-op and of course erm we always went each week , my brother and I , er to the Co-op for the groceries you see , so it was all Co-op .
25	He was ashamed of going to their usual practitioner , and went some distance away to a physician in Westminster , stepping past the beggars who lay about the pavement , demanding alms .
26	FISA , the governing body , went some way towards assuaging Senna 's grief by banning Mansell from Sunday 's race even though the court of appeal is not due to sit until Thursday .
27	A Swedish study went some way towards achieving this aim by using soldier ‘ volunteers ’ and keeping them awake for about 72 hours in a constant environment .
28	Europe , not the States , was still the mecca , and many shopping trips by eager Scousers willing to supply the demand in their home city went some way to doing this .
29	But through sensitive playing and a warm humorous script by Bennett , the play went some way to portraying the normality of life with a daughter who is ‘ not quite right ’ .
30	It would have been impossible to predict the way events developed after October 1917 , and the policy of the Party seemed on numerous grounds to be the most sensible , the only one which went some way to reconciling the need for large economic units ( which , rightly or wrongly , was assumed to be decisive for material progress ) and for democracy , understood as the right of peoples to choose their own State .