Example sentences of "[noun] went [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOLLOWING THE FIRST day of The Subject Was Roses rehearsals , Dustin went over to a girlfriend 's apartment for dinner brimming with enthusiasm and confidence . |
| 2 | The pair tied the knot in July , and the last-minute wedding went off to a tee … |
| 3 | And I believed that this world of darkness and changing images went on without a break , as unceasingly as the other less real one outside , wherever outside was , and by some unlikely philanthropic gesture of the city corporation was allowed to co-exist and be connected by the little dark doors with dark portholes . |
| 4 | Dear Mr. Lum — who had been admitted to the Weavers ' Company himself in 1787 — had agreed to recommend his friend William Charles Titford , and the deal went through as a freedom by redemption — that is , by virtue of payment — rather than by apprenticeship or patrimony . |
| 5 | During the United Nations International Women 's Year in 1975 , the Salvadorean government spent more time and much more money on ensuring that the Miss Universe beauty contest went off without a hitch , than on debating the issues of discrimination against women . |
| 6 | Schools went in for a lot of physical education , ‘ drill ’ , which involved jumping about in a drafty hall with your skirt tucked into your knickers if you were female . |
| 7 | Her words went in like a knife . |
| 8 | Loretta 's mind went off at a tangent . |
| 9 | ‘ Fowler ’ was inserted for ‘ Tebbit ’ on the placards and the demonstration went ahead with a degree of intimidation that made the front page of every national newspaper the next day . |
| 10 | The interview went onwards into a mass of sexual innuendo before Morrissey was removed speedily from young Antonella 's reach by his tour manager . |
| 11 | So the merger boom went on for a while , still fuelled by this false belief . |
| 12 | It was the highest total and the biggest increase since March 1991 , when shoppers went out on a spending spree to beat the rise in value-added tax rates . |
| 13 | Rovers were forced into a pre-match reshuffle as Neil McNab went down with a stomach bug . |
| 14 | Cambridge dominated after the interval , but Millwall went close to an equaliser in the 63rd minute when Etienne Verveer headed against the foot of the post . |
| 15 | Kim Barnes went along for a preview . |
| 16 | One such occasion was Labor Day 1949 , when my parents went off on a holiday barbecue or picnic and deposited the three oldest toys — David [ eight ] , Johnny [ six ] and Alvin [ four ] — with a teenage black babysitter named Earl at the Ritz to see Li'l Abner [ the early black and white version , with Buster Keaton in a small part ] and I Married a Witch . |
| 17 | It was his grandmother he spent his fifth birthday with and that same year his parents went off on a tour of the Commonwealth , which took them away from him for six long months . |
| 18 | The saleswoman went over to a rack of ankle-length cottons in different colours . |
| 19 | ‘ About 2 o'clock , when within about 4 miles of Green Island , for which we were tacking , Mr. Gould went off in a boat with the hope of reaching it before us , and of finding some penguin 's eggs which he is much in want off [ sic ] . |
| 20 | Titron went over to an angle of thirty-five degrees . |
| 21 | M. Dupont went on in a calm , deliberate voice : ‘ My only question concerning Mr Lewis is this . |
| 22 | Impatiently , Ted went outside with a brush and prodded the eaves to drive out any birds that might be disturbing his peace . |
| 23 | This sort of banter went on for a while . |
| 24 | BY A strange coincidence , two Americans from the same Courtaulds site went abroad on a mission of mercy at the same time . |
| 25 | " Stephen went off with a carrier-bag , dear . " |
| 26 | The Boozebuster went off without a hitch . |
| 27 | At the time half the city 's school boards were distracted by criminal investigations — into how a grand piano went home with a board member , how their election hand-outs came to be printed by school members on school presses , why others dealt drugs and what exactly was the price of a promotion ( $10,000 could get you a deputy principalship in the Bronx ) . |
| 28 | He made it all seem easy , producing an excellent meal , and the lunch party at the Commanding Officer 's residence went off without a hitch . |
| 29 | David Kennedy , prosecuting , said Kevin Fripp went out with a relative of the spinster , from whom he learned of the cash . |
| 30 | This aesthetic refusal went along with an unwillingness to develop a strategy for ensuring a continued capacity to make their sort of films . |