Example sentences of "went [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We touched wheels and nearly went off the road , ’ he grinned . |
| 2 | Fernando Collor of Brazil , who went off the rails last month by ordering a doomed price freeze , still proclaims himself a free-marketeer . |
| 3 | Had he missed the cut , Woosnam would not even have had that to watch on Saturday , since the network went off the air with about an hour 's play left in a move that would have angered Great Britain . |
| 4 | They went off the next day and recorded the track for the ‘ Sergeant Pepper ’ LP , it was awful , ’ he says . |
| 5 | The second series really went off the boil because there was much more emphasis on the woman lawyer . |
| 6 | Annie 's voice all but went off the chromatic scale when Kelly told her that she was turning down Ibn Fayoud 's invitation . |
| 7 | But when Britain went off the Gold Standard in 1931 , the Champagne houses found themselves receiving just two-thirds of the price they had come to expect . |
| 8 | THE brother of murdered teenager Julie Dart went off the rails after his sister 's death , a court heard yesterday . |
| 9 | At first , Stockwood seemed to prevaricate when journalists asked pointed questions about his admiration for Ceauşescu : his praise , he said , referred to Ceauşescu before he went off the rails . |
| 10 | In terms of engineering , the BRMs were behind their time ; the cars gave endless trouble ; Jackie 's dissatisfactions grew ; accidents intervened , especially at a rain-soaked Spa where Jackie went off the track at high speed and lay trapped in his car , his shoulder broken , his ribs cracked and petrol from his ruptured tanks soaking through his overalls , burning his skin . |
| 11 | Starting twelfth , Hunt got caught in a battle with Tom Pryce and went off the track and into a sand trap . |
| 12 | A rather attractive hexagonal room that went off the main library which seemed sort of ideal for study purposes , or teaching purposes that were associated with the library . |
| 13 | And er we were coming out of We were getting the tub out an and er me brother was at the front end of th It went off the rails and er as he pushed it back , I was at the back and it jammed me again the face , and broke this collar bone . |
| 14 | ‘ I went off the idea , ’ I said . |
| 15 | Years ago Constance 's mother had kept chickens at the bottom of the garden , and when they went off the lay one of her sons-in-law had strangled them and she had given them away to the neighbours , being unable to eat a bird she had known personally . |
| 16 | Except in winter , when heavy snow sometimes delayed us and another engine had to come to the rescue , we generally arrived on time at Parma. just occasionally a tram car went off the rails ; perhaps Camera was overcome by the thrill of speed . |
| 17 | He had a guilty liking for fat girls who laughed a lot and if ever he went off the rails … |
| 18 | And if there were h a wagon or a hutch went off the road there you were with not enough height to lift it all back off the rail again and believe me that was experience in itself . |
| 19 | Most of the electrics went off the board with damp and the violent motion by the time we thankfully dropped anchor off Clovelly near the Bristol Class Lifeboat on station there . |
| 20 | ‘ The night coach went off the road . |
| 21 | Daughter Alison , 20 , who co-starred with Clint in the thriller Tightrope , went off the rails earlier this year and checked into a drink dependency clinic in Arizona . |
| 22 | For a while the television channel went off the air as protesters swarmed into the building , before troops and government supporters pushed them out . |
| 23 | Okay you 're absolutely right er we did play that at the beginning of the programme we had a little trouble with our C D what happened there Stuart it went off the air did n't it ? |
| 24 | The headlights , in their blackout cowls , threw about as much light as a candle , and finally they went off the road . |
| 25 | In a quiet way , he went off the handle . |
| 26 | Another car swerved on a patch of oil , Nigel tried to avoid him , and went off the road . ’ |
| 27 | Consequently she was having her first decent sleep in a couple of nights when her alarm clock went off the next morning . |
| 28 | Britain 's Malcolm Wilson , who was in seventh position after the first day , went off the road during the 17th stage . |
| 29 | The referee then went off the field to consult an officer at the touchline who waved us off the pitch . |
| 30 | I went off the second board and I had to get out cos I felt sick . |