Example sentences of "[noun] went [adv prt] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The light went on in the hall and the door opened .
2 A light went on in the house opposite .
3 Wayne Biggins went down in the box .
4 ‘ Mr. Gould went off in the morning to the Acteon [ sic ] Islands , which are about a mile distant from each other and at the distance of about 3 or 4 miles from Research Bay .
5 The anniversary of that incident was ‘ celebrated ’ on May 9 last month when firebombs went off in the shopping mall of The Galleries shopping centre at Bristol , at the opposite end of the country .
6 In the early hours of yesterday morning the Drumkeen Hotel at Upper Galwally , Belfast , was extensively damaged when a 200 lb car bomb went off in the car park .
7 The building was extensively damaged when a 200 lb car bomb went off in the car park .
8 And they , er when they did it , they knocked it all down , and that was really wrong and unnecessary , and though I think some of the flintstone was used , a lot of the flintstone went back in the builder 's yard , and it was a criminal thing at the time .
9 I always used to pick him up when daddy went out in the morning on his bike or on the bus , pick him up and wave bye-bye , see you soon .
10 we had our red and white rosettes and when our , I was sitting watching the match and when they scored the goal my slippers went up in the air .
11 As dark fell , street lights went on in the square and many demonstrators lit paper torches . ’
12 At one stage a bleeper went off in the press gallery which woke up one or two slumbering hacks .
13 JOHN Major 's tub-thumping speech at the Guildhall on Monday night went down in the City like a lead balloon .
14 The match had a thrilling finale when , with Kendal leading 13–7 and only seconds to go , Greg Young went over in the corner and Andy Craggs kicked the conversion to share the honours .
15 A hell of a roar went up in the canteen at lunch break when one of the shop stewards said that Clasper would go on fighting on behalf of the workers until every bloody one of them had lost their jobs .
16 Fernand went off in the tractor soon after lunch , ’ said Sue .
17 Brynllys has been farmed organically by Rachel 's family since 1942 , but until 1982 all the milk went off in the tanker with everybody else 's , putting the lie to the old chestnut that organic producers must have a premium .
18 Brownlow went down in the lift , found his car in the side street and got in .
19 I do n't really understand it but the the apprentice went down in the pit of course and the older man was above and they worked this saw all this sawdust was coming
20 But whenever Angus and his daughter went out in the boat fishing for their lives to keep themselves fed , it seemed that a seal swam in front of the boat and lead them towards the places where the fishes were thickest in the sea in that part of the coast .
21 Bill went out in the garage yeah and missed him
22 A historian concerned to reconstruct the life of Abraham as exactly as possible wants to know what changes the story of Abraham went through in the process of retelling .
23 The little book went up in the air and came down shut .
24 Only when Juha went off in the morning could we have a bit of a rest . ’
25 Kilkenny could have been beaten in the Leinster championship but for a controversial penalty , awarded after John Power went down in the square .
26 Yesterday a fuse blew and all the screens went down in the middle of the show .
27 He said , ‘ That is a pity ’ , with his smiling , still mouth , and he got back in the car and drove away , and Elizabeth went back in the house , and all the day she cried , and I went away to the hills .
28 Their debacle against Essex , when the last eight wickets went down in the final 20 overs to Mark Ilott and John Childs , reflected a temperamental flaw that has repeatedly dogged the county .
29 Different Class went down in the melee , and behind him horse upon horse piled into the scrum .
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