Example sentences of "[noun] went [prep] the [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | That it was all undignified , that it was really rather unpleasant , that it was somehow dehumanizing for Harold — these considerations went by the board as he finally rolled on top of her , grunting fiercely in a tone no one at Magdalen would have recognized . |
| 2 | The young Mary Pickford went into the industry as the Progressive phase approached its zenith , and for Griffith she played criminals and prostitutes ; she went on to portray a whole variety of poor hard-done-by girls , many of them immigrants , many of them immoral or pregnant , before in 1916 she played a factory worker in the most memorably titled of all the films of this era The Eternal Grind . |
| 3 | Philip went to the door as his Dad came in . |
| 4 | Standards went by the board as they sensed a chance to break Drexel 's dominance of the junk-bond business . |
| 5 | Bosses of operators Swansea-Cork Ferries went to the ship as soon as they learned of the tragedy . |
| 6 | For a while the television channel went off the air as protesters swarmed into the building , before troops and government supporters pushed them out . |