Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] went [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Needless to say , nobody knew , but the bidding went up in units ( people do like a nice round unit for this type of speculation ) of £500,000 . |
| 2 | ‘ Bill , what would you do if one of the gang went out at night and told someone all about us , and what we 'd done ? |
| 3 | Er you know erm the letter , the reply went back from Dave saying that every you know , possible thing was done to get bilingual staff but at the end of the day you know they could n't come up with the goods . |
| 4 | Once those scenes had been completed , the carrier went back to North Island to pick up the replica aircraft and the two P–40s , and transported the entire group to Hawaii . |
| 5 | The bait was taken by the Swedish owner of Les Noces , and the auction went off without hitch . |
| 6 | Witnesses in the car said Williams had not been driving at an excessive speed and had not been distracted in the moments before the car went out of control , said Mr Hardy . |
| 7 | The accident happened when the car went out of control on the Iffley Road in Oxford late last night . |
| 8 | THE magician and his talking parrot had been working an ocean liner , until one day the liner went down in fog . |
| 9 | There was one classic occasion when the flare went out at Fawley refinery . |
| 10 | ( 120 men of the 650 in the battalion went off to Cyprus in September for a month . ) |
| 11 | The race riots had run their course by 1968 , but violent protests continued on the university campuses as long as the war went on in South-East Asia . |
| 12 | While the Collector went off to bed in the middle of the day , Harry made a round of the Residency wheel accompanied by the giant Sikh , Hookum Singh , festooned in lengths of chain . |
| 13 | The curtain went up on Charley 's Aunt for the first time at the Theatre Royal . |
| 14 | And as I as I told you before , we was on the main concourse , heard the glass smashed , we come down a stairwell on , come round the back , saw the two , or saw two persons in the back garden , asked them what they were doing buy which time the the curtain went up in smoke , well up in flames . |
| 15 | The curtain went down in dignity and tranquillity . |
| 16 | The phone went down in laughter , and Edward replaced his receiver with a pleasantly hollow stomach . |
| 17 | And the King went out from Burgos and came nigh unto Bivar ; and the Cid came up to him and would have kissed his hand , but the King withheld it , and said angrily unto him , Ruydiez , quit my land . |
| 18 | The other went on to film school and a career in the movie business . |
| 19 | The barn was on a main road , and it seems likely that one of the adults was killed and the other went off in search of another mate . |
| 20 | The Brigadier went off in search of ‘ that blasted mother 's boy ’ , pleased with the thought of being rid of him , even for twenty minutes . |
| 21 | Immediately , the foresail went out of control , banging and flapping and whipping back and forth , effectively keeping the crew at bay . |
| 22 | The rub was that the women said that when the wife went out to work and earned more income for the family , it meant ‘ you live up to your wages ’ . |
| 23 | Police have no idea why the lorry went out of control . |
| 24 | The incendiary charges Manolo 's experts had set up earlier in the day went up on schedule . |
| 25 | It would be nice , for instance , if some of the cast went in in costume before the curtain went up — to wish them well , hope they enjoy it , that sort of thing . |
| 26 | The ferry 's flag flew at half mast as the probe went on at Cork 's Ringaskiddy port . |
| 27 | No damage was discovered and the flight went on to York . |
| 28 | As the rally closed , the woman went up to Lafontaine to offer him a bouquet of flowers and to ask for his autograph . |
| 29 | It was not raining this time and the train went through to Latimer Road unhindered . |
| 30 | As the committee sat down to meet , the call went out for women to leave the hall , and the male members of the committee to remain . |