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

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1 Its programme necessarily went beyond the question of Palestine or the recovery of the Golan Heights , to the fulfilment of its regional ambitions .
2 and mummy nearly went through the roof
3 I think he 's name 's Church see I work with a , a young chap from Wellingborough , Graham and er , he and his brother in law always went round the reservoir , Ramsthorpe , Grantham
4 One motor sledge also went into the sea .
5 When the product finally went onto the market , as the Agenda , I was sent a sample which was unusable .
6 The news soon went round the district about why Miss Louise had come live there .
7 In fact , Time magazine almost went with the coverline ‘ Is Feminism Dead ? ’ according to the article 's author , senior editor Claudia Wallis .
8 My father never went to the cinema because the technicolour was bad for his epilepsy .
9 Considerable thought obviously went into the preparation of the recommendations , and clinics opened or planned since that time have largely followed the guidelines .
10 After towing them back to their ship we were friends for life and the word soon went round the fleet .
11 That Arthur 'ad stopped at a pub on 'is way to the church , 'e said 'e needed fortifyin' , and 'im and 'is best man both went in the pub an' stayed there a lot longer than they should of .
12 Well the man nearly went through the roof and er , this was a Saturday morning , of course he did n't come , and in the meantime I had another replai re complaint about the path outside the W I hall , again which was a disgrace , not one person but several people .
13 Dyson then went about the task of enlisting support for the organisation , a process which was successful , as can be seen from the thirty-three signatories ( including Lord Attlee , the Bishops of Birmingham and Exeter , Isaiah Berlin , Julian Huxley , Bertrand Russell ) to the letter that appeared in The Times in March 1958 .
14 Members of the board then went to the organisation headquarters to reassure the staff — there are now 35 working on the project — that the Games would go ahead .
15 The chairman then went to the extent of scrapping every committee , and having three full council meetings a week , on the grounds that every member should consider every issue .
16 The fifty fourth minute , Les Phillips ' thirty yard shot just went over the crossbar , Wolves fought back and Andy Melville headed Paul Cook 's free kick off the line with Vasey beaten .
17 The doctor then went to the magistrate and swore on oath that he would probably die if sent to prison .
18 It transpired that a large quantity of spent shells from a plane ahead went through the nose and had struck Ed .
19 Early PC-based software was both expensive and fairly awful ; Studio Software , who produced the first desktop publishing program for the PC recently went to the wall as a direct result of being unable to keep up with the new leaders .
20 Death always went with the territory .
21 As the head snuggled into her and the thin arm came round her waist , Aggie drew in a long tight breath ; then when her own arm automatically went around the child , she closed her eyes tightly , because for the first time in her life she was feeling flesh close to her own .
22 Beth Shepherd set the two bags down on the kitchen table then went to the garden door and undid the top catch .
23 The referee then went off the field to consult an officer at the touchline who waved us off the pitch .
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