Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] go the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Denis smiled to himself as he thought of the jingle going the rounds : |
2 | Along with this imaginative , inspirational side of the mind goes the capacity — better developed in some than in others — for intuition . |
3 | The back went you know the seat of the chair went the back . |
4 | The Jacobites had planned to follow the proclamation at Braemar by seizing Edinburgh Castle , which would have got the rebellion off to a flying start , for with the Castle gone the city would almost certainly have been captured . |
5 | At the end of the day the pavements in this area would be covered with corn-samples discarded after a deal had been struck — the farmer would plunge his hand into his pocket , produce a sample which would be carefully examined by the dealer and then onto the ground went the handful to be gratefully devoured in due course by the rapidly growing pigeon population . |
6 | With a year to go the NZRFU have yet to provide a detailed breakdown . |
7 | From the word go the crowd ( badly dressed , smelly , blank-faced and radiating tragedy ) greeted the bands with abuse and bottles of cider which they had feverishly pissed in . |
8 | Coupled with her hope that the war may end in a stalemate goes the hope that she may never be obliged to become a belligerent nation . |
9 | ‘ To the victors go the spoils , ’ intones Minna , with an outrageous wink . |
10 | Jokes about their own plight and sarcasms aimed at ‘ Them ’ at the top went the rounds as the standard of living fell steadily throughout Romania in the 1980s . |