Example sentences of "[noun pl] go [adv prt] [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the weeks went by and the 5 months I had off work which at first seemed an eternity soon became 5 weeks and then 5 days . |
| 2 | The truth was that as the days went by and the heavy rain showed no sign of slackening for very long it became clear that something very frightening had begun to happen . |
| 3 | As the days went by and the busy little transport box seemed to be making only slow way into the huge heap of lime , he no longer eased it out on the blade of the shovel for the wind to take it but scattered it anywhere out of sight , anywhere to be rid of it . |
| 4 | The hole in the screen coincided with screams and the lights going up and the immediate disappearance of the images . |
| 5 | The house lights went down and the small posse of hack musicians who slouched in the orchestra pit began to saw indifferently at their instruments . |
| 6 | Even so the showing of chrysom babies on brasses went on until the second quarter of the seventeenth century , the last three in the extant series being 1600,1606 and 1631 . |
| 7 | Well in War and Peace it 's a story of the er I mean there are many themes go on but the broad sweep of history is about the Napoleonic invasion of Russia and the way the Russians defended themselves against the French armies . |
| 8 | It had explosive charges laid ready to blow it up , and two small ones went off as the American troops started to cross . |
| 9 | " The soldiers went out and the first creature they found was Rabscuttle , grazing on the hill-top . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh — there have been rumours going around that the two of you had got together again . ’ |