Example sentences of "[noun sg] went [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Taylor said it was difficult to say why the seat went to the Liberal Democrats .
2 In the end the European side went into the 12 singles matches with a two point lead ( 9-7 ) but only after two Yorkshiremen had produced a rearguard action at the end of the day which even General Custer would have been proud of .
3 Rain recognized the stale smell , and her glance went to the half-open shutters .
4 Because of these discussions Mary Law went to the local teachers ’ centre to find out about borrowing video equipment .
5 Within the general framework of his attack on the humanistic Hegelian tradition of Western Marxism , Althusser 's specific objection to Sartre 's attempt to mediate Marxism with existential subjectivity was that such a move went against the crucial discoveries which had founded Marxism in the first place ; in an extension of Lévi-Strauss ' argument , he maintained that the notion of ‘ man ’ that Sartre used was derived from a particular ideological definition of the human subject which represses Marx 's insight that the human subject is not the centre of history , together with Freud 's that the subject is not centred in consciousness .
6 At seven o'clock that night , William Darling went up the long stairs of the lighthouse to light the big oil lantern .
7 During 1907–8 , although a local committee was formed by the ETS to study the " female question " , priority went to the 50 hours campaign , which was finally settled in February 1909 , thus leaving the way clear .
8 Another Gold Award went to the Rubber Chemicals section at Hillhouse for the achievements of its shutdown safety team .
9 But there was a motor bike went by a few minutes ago .
10 Baxter believed the Antinomian controversy went to the very roots of the Christian faith and this was one of the main reasons he accepted the offer of an army chaplaincy in order to counter this error .
11 Monboddo and Johnson debated ‘ whether the Savage or the London Shopkeeper had the best existence , : unamazingly , no firm conclusion was reached , apart from Boswell 's recurring delight at how well the encounter went between the two men .
12 As the year went by the economic sops to the peasantry provided by NEP began to have a relaxing effect on this class , but industrial unrest throughout Russia continued to rise .
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