Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] go [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most telling accounts were to be seen in the local press whose journalists had gone along on routine reporting assignments and tried to come to terms with the decidedly un-pop star look of the performers on stage . |
| 2 | Lucinda , who had always been so obedient , speaking to her mother as if good manners had gone out of fashion ? |
| 3 | Last night , after her parents had gone up to bed , and Aubrey very tactfully made himself scarce , I had a chance to ask her . |
| 4 | It was a glorious victory when he managed to persuade the grown-ups to let him stay on after his parents had gone back to Manchester . |
| 5 | In real terms the average incomes of lone parents have fallen — if their incomes had gone up in line with the Retail Price Index then they would have been about £12 per week higher in 1989 . |
| 6 | PARIS — The wave of strikes that has gripped France for a month showed some signs of abating yesterday as prison officers agreed to go back to work , writes Sarah Lambert . |
| 7 | He said 300 similar small businesses had gone out of business in Darlington since the last election . |
| 8 | It was the second time in a fortnight the Glens had gone down to Portadown , but Saturday 's was a much brighter performance than the 3– |
| 9 | Two years later , receipts had gone up to £3,500 , and after the audience survey , reached over £13,000 . |
| 10 | Where once dockers and carmen had gone in for breakfast or a midday meal they now sat around drinking mugs of tea and eating slices of toast and dripping . |
| 11 | The two men had gone out at dawn each morning , and for five consecutive days their huers had run up and down the cliff paths , whistling and signalling with flags and gorse bushes to guide the two fleets to the shoals ; and while everyone in Polruan had confidently expected Sam Gristy to win hands down , it now looked as though Harry had the edge . |
| 12 | The teachers had suddenly ended their strike , and the four youngest children had gone back to school . |
| 13 | By Thursday no Iraqi missile had fallen on Turkish soil , but the debris of a misfired Patriot anti-missile missile had , and air-raid sirens had gone off in Adana . |
| 14 | The children wanted to go back to school . |
| 15 | Leeds just could nt keep possession for any time , so were nt building attacks , even the clearances started going out of play . |
| 16 | The next year , he raced again for Lotus , only the Lotus was a less good Lotus , the Ferrari was a lot better car , his team-mate Carlos Reutemann finished consistently ahead of him and some of the smiles had gone out of Mario . |
| 17 | Afterwards , when the boys had gone up to bed , he told Josh that Mabel 's death was an act of retribution on the part of Almighty God . ’ |
| 18 | Before she could throw the water into the wastepaper basket , the reports had gone up in smoke . |