Example sentences of "[noun] went [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrick Kelly and Frederick Flowers went back a long way . |
| 2 | Felipe was still having breakfast when Maggie went down the next morning , and it caught her off guard . |
| 3 | I set about building up an act with the aid of Rag magazines , joke-books , a gag nicked from here , a gag nicked from there and at my next engagement , four days later , I was billed as a comic and my fee went up a few quid . |
| 4 | Through such developments , a cadre of AEA managers went up the commercial learning curve . |
| 5 | ‘ Drink went down the wrong way . ’ |
| 6 | Lili 's cigarette smoke went down the wrong way . |
| 7 | Liz , like a pale convent girl too long mewed up , went wild in her first year , as she discovered the world of parties she had hitherto known only by reading and by hearsay : in those days , such was the imbalance between the sexes , women were much in demand as status symbols , as sleeping partners , as lovers , as party ballast , and Liz went out a great deal , her appearance improving dramatically as she did so . |
| 8 | The old woman went along a short passage , passed a scullery and continued on a few yards . |
| 9 | On Thursday the weedkiller train went up the Cambrian Coast , thus spending two nights at Machynlleth . |
| 10 | After all , his links to Christian democracy went back a long way . |
| 11 | My Bud went down the wrong way and I had a fit of choking . |
| 12 | When Razor went down the first time I was shouting and jumping up and down , ’ she said . |
| 13 | Dionne went for the outlaw type , or so she said , then mothered and civilised them until they were unrecognisable , and when her dream of civilised and raunchy equality went out the slammed door , there she was alone again , smoking a little more than usual , drinking a little more than necessary and swearing herself to celibacy until the next sulky brow slouched into view and stole her hopeful heart away . |
| 14 | Men went down the main shaft and tried to clear it by shovelling the slurry into tubs which were then hauled to the surface but this was soon abandoned as it was realised that it would take weeks or months to clear a way through to the trapped men . |
| 15 | She goes Dear Doctor Allen , My Mum and Dad went out the other day and I was bored so I started rubbing my dog and my dog got turned on and so did I . |
| 16 | Six candles went out the first time , the remaining three the second time . |
| 17 | Although ‘ systematization ’ struck many of its critics in the West in 1988–89 as an insane novelty , in fact its roots went back a long way . |