Example sentences of "went [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sometimes thought that if they went somewhere hot and beachy as most people did — the Seychelles , the Maldives , the Caribbean — they would spend the whole day swimming or sunbathing . |
| 2 | Deane won loads of ball with his head in the area but most of his knock ons went somewhere harmless . |
| 3 | Once a week my entire office went somewhere special for lunch together . |
| 4 | But something went badly wrong . |
| 5 | My plan to ignore the time totally ( it would only depress me ! ) went badly wrong . |
| 6 | At this stage , he said , it seems more likely that an attempted mugging went badly wrong . |
| 7 | Something went badly wrong and she was unable to have any more children . ’ |
| 8 | keith richardson says that Gloucester made basic errors and could have helped themselves to nineteen points … you ca n't afford to make such errors against a team like Bath and in the end things went badly wrong |
| 9 | Besides — and in the way the French Army of those days functioned it is hard to believe such considerations did not pass through Joffre 's mind — if things went badly wrong henceforth at Verdun , the Generalissimo 's responsibility would now be shared by another . |
| 10 | And in the middle of the slanting span , circling upon a radius of about three yards , and light enough to maintain its place a foot or so below the surface , something pale and oval went monotonously round and round . |
| 11 | In the middle of it Nisodemus went slowly white with rage . |
| 12 | Now if you said to me er I wou to be able to get myself fixed up with a car then I need two weeks and that that suits us anyway you know if if you wanted to start next week and everything went right fine . |
| 13 | ‘ Angry with you , aching for you — ’ his voice dropped and went wholly intense ‘ — in love with you . ’ |
| 14 | Jane Sharpe screamed ; the last sound before the room went wholly silent . |
| 15 | That is because it is an area where Marx and Engels , misled by Morgan , went most wrong , yet where at the same time they made the best use of anthropology . |
| 16 | Baldwin 's spring campaign went rather flat . |
| 17 | They were three quarters of the way through the meal when Caspar , who did not miss anything any of the giants said and who had , in fact , long since perfected the art of listening to three different conversations at once , suddenly went rather white and made frantic gestures to Fenella . |
| 18 | Not least BARRY MOONCULT who went so ape-dropping crazy , he was spotted stumbling out of the party while it was in full swing armed with a stash of joke bombs , which despite being pretty harmless ( containing about as much genuine explosive as your average cap pistol ) make a loud enough bang to put the fear of God into the most ardent of atheists . |
| 19 | On the other hand , his wound went so deep and he was such a vengeful man that he had wanted his wounder dead . |
| 20 | She shook herself inwardly , said severely , Control yourself , Sally-Anne Tunstall ; remember what happened when you had such soft thoughts about a man before , and the sudden dreadful memory this evoked hit her so hard that she stopped dead in her tracks , gave a stifled wail , and went so white that Dr Neil , hearing her , and looking at her , saw that her pallor was so extreme that he thought her on the verge of fainting . |
| 21 | And I was hon , I just went so mad ! |
| 22 | It went so fast you did n't know how fast it was going ; it went so high you could n't see how high it was . |
| 23 | The crash investigators wo n't report until next year on why their low level training flight went so wrong . |
| 24 | And then it all went so wrong . |
| 25 | Four times she shouted , before the house went suddenly silent . |
| 26 | The pinioned hands of the condemned man went suddenly white as the noose and the drop snapped his spinal column . |
| 27 | Then his vision blanked out completely , as the whole windscreen went suddenly opaque . |
| 28 | They were in the prime of their lives and something went terribly wrong . |
| 29 | But , of course , matters went terribly wrong . |
| 30 | Michael Ledeen , an academic and consultant who did much to promote the Iran venture , took heart from the fact that when an arms shipment went disastrously wrong , in November 1985 , the Iranians still gave the crew caviar on their flight out of Iran . |