Example sentences of "went [adj] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | My first marriage , to Mandy , went wrong because we married too young . |
| 2 | After R. v. Samuel the police underwent a painful education , as a series of people charged with serious crimes on the basis of admissions went free because they had been wrongly denied access to a solicitor . |
| 3 | The corruption went unchecked because the system could not afford to acknowledge the extent of its own inefficiencies and failures . |
| 4 | The report alleged that warnings of a terrorist bombing went unheeded because they would have exposed the " drugs-for-hostages " deal . |
| 5 | That 's very funny , for example , I went Dutch because when we were small my brother run away . |