Example sentences of "[noun] went [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Taylor said it was difficult to say why the seat went to the Liberal Democrats . |
| 2 | Nuadu 's eyes went to the other captives and Fenella at once said , ‘ Yes , of course , all of you . |
| 3 | In the end the European side went into the 12 singles matches with a two point lead ( 9-7 ) but only after two Yorkshiremen had produced a rearguard action at the end of the day which even General Custer would have been proud of . |
| 4 | Rain recognized the stale smell , and her glance went to the half-open shutters . |
| 5 | Corbett went up the great steps of the hospital , past the group of old soldiers , their limbs grotesquely amputated , who enlivened each other with stories of their past . |
| 6 | Because of these discussions Mary Law went to the local teachers ’ centre to find out about borrowing video equipment . |
| 7 | When Nigel went into the Left Arts Review he found that a good review of Eleanor 's book was ready and waiting . |
| 8 | Within the general framework of his attack on the humanistic Hegelian tradition of Western Marxism , Althusser 's specific objection to Sartre 's attempt to mediate Marxism with existential subjectivity was that such a move went against the crucial discoveries which had founded Marxism in the first place ; in an extension of Lévi-Strauss ' argument , he maintained that the notion of ‘ man ’ that Sartre used was derived from a particular ideological definition of the human subject which represses Marx 's insight that the human subject is not the centre of history , together with Freud 's that the subject is not centred in consciousness . |
| 9 | Robert went to the French windows and looked out to see if he could see anything . |
| 10 | As it happened all his discoveries went against the Peripatetic views , and as he advanced so the attacks on him grew , largely because the lesser ones among opponents saw their cosy lives of repetitions of dogma in danger . |
| 11 | During the late Seventies and early Eighties , all , or almost all of these places went to the fortunate members of the left 's slate . |
| 12 | At seven o'clock that night , William Darling went up the long stairs of the lighthouse to light the big oil lantern . |
| 13 | Now big lorries went past every five minutes , carrying things for the new buildings . |
| 14 | The couple fought a long battle to get welfare benefits but they were unsucessful until Anita went to the new carers ' centre in Banbury . |
| 15 | If a body exercising the statutory powers went beyond the four corners of the act , then the court could intervene . |
| 16 | During 1907–8 , although a local committee was formed by the ETS to study the " female question " , priority went to the 50 hours campaign , which was finally settled in February 1909 , thus leaving the way clear . |
| 17 | Passengers went to the open doors and looked up and down the platform , trying to make out why they were stuck there , but no one looked up on to the roof of the car . |
| 18 | Another Gold Award went to the Rubber Chemicals section at Hillhouse for the achievements of its shutdown safety team . |
| 19 | But there was a motor bike went by a few minutes ago . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought you were going to undress me very slowly ? ’ she murmured , as his fingers went to the satin-covered buttons on her blouse . |
| 21 | Gerry went into the big boys ' class and Julia and I into the kindergarten where infants of three flew past us effortlessly . |
| 22 | MRS THATCHER went to the American heartlands yesterday and made clear when questioned by university students that she viewed with alarm the idea of Britain under a coalition government . |
| 23 | Baxter believed the Antinomian controversy went to the very roots of the Christian faith and this was one of the main reasons he accepted the offer of an army chaplaincy in order to counter this error . |
| 24 | Monboddo and Johnson debated ‘ whether the Savage or the London Shopkeeper had the best existence , : unamazingly , no firm conclusion was reached , apart from Boswell 's recurring delight at how well the encounter went between the two men . |
| 25 | The landlords ' agents went into the leased premises at 6a.m. , when it was vacant , and changed the locks . |
| 26 | As the year went by the economic sops to the peasantry provided by NEP began to have a relaxing effect on this class , but industrial unrest throughout Russia continued to rise . |
| 27 | The three women were silent as Alice went down the front steps , her white lace dress foaming around her legs as she walked . |
| 28 | James went to the local police superintendent , one Smith , and asked for 100 police to be billeted on the colliery premises , as , otherwise , the safety men , who were frightened , would not come to work . |
| 29 | Rachel went up the communal stairs . |