Example sentences of "[art] [noun] went [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A BR spokeswoman said : ‘ The gang went down the train smashing windows and light bulbs and scaring the passengers . |
| 2 | so you could pull it up and down and the effects went out the bottom of the tube , the tube came up like that and it came over , and like that and then the shade would be like that and then you could swing it round |
| 3 | so he just kept going , so the pick-up jammed its anchors on , there was a Rover it was coming the other way , the Rover went up the verge |
| 4 | The hand closed over the receiver picked up vibration , and the cord to the microphone went up the wearer 's sleeve unobtrusively . |
| 5 | The civilian went up the ladder and retrieved the attaché case . |
| 6 | The crawl went down the Strand , past St James 's , Belgravia and Mayfair , calling at the embassies of Australia , Canada , India , Bolivia , Peru , Columbia , Ecuador , Mexico , Myanmar , the USA and Brazil . |
| 7 | The ball went down the Leeds left wing and was turned onto Deanes outstretching head . |
| 8 | ‘ Barmen all over the world acquired a fair percentage of my money , ’ Jimmy regrets ‘ And the rest went down the plughole with various business ventures . ’ |
| 9 | The flood was up to the top of the stove already , and as the gas went out the saucepan went afloat and he was scalded by a stream of boiling water that mixed with the cold . |
| 10 | But for 15 minutes before the curtains went up the audience must have thought that the obnoxious Sheriff of Nottigham was sitting immediately behind me … |
| 11 | Woman and the man went up the garden |
| 12 | The spider went up the spout is me , down come the rain and out come the sun , all the sun came out in the rain , Insy Winsy spider climbed up again |
| 13 | The loco went down the embankment taking some of the tanks with it , and the wreckage together with trees standing in the field were enveloped in flames which took several hours to extinguish . |