Example sentences of "[noun pl] went [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eyes went straight to the wicker chair by the window where a baby was just waking from its morning sleep . |
| 2 | Fierce Eyes went out into the storm and returned with the grandmother 's grizzled skull , the hair frozen into spikes which he broke off and cast on to the fire , where they sizzled , cooled , then flared . |
| 3 | But his eyes went back to the Workshops and he frowned and sought for the right thing to say . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't let Dad hear for God 's sake , ’ she moaned quietly , as all her inhibitions went out of the window . |
| 5 | The two brothers went back into the Guild Office , and Ebenezer began to gasp and splutter , telling his story as best he could : what Florrie had said to him about Tom 's letter and what Tom had threatened to do … . |
| 6 | Then anti-climax , as they watched its tail-lights in the pitchy dark , lights that seemed to throb and waver in their seared sight before they blazed redly when the brakes went on for the corner by the sailing club slipway . |
| 7 | Coun Jim Skinner ( Lab ) said if the companies went ahead with the boycott there would have to be changes made to the traffic slowing scheme . |
| 8 | But once record companies went back on the sales offensive the new pop was easily coopted . |
| 9 | Footsteps went past in the corridor and then the door to the Governor 's office opened . |
| 10 | But erm you know when we were on the strike if these lads would n't have gone back , there was couple of scabs went back into the quarry . |
| 11 | The four sets of parents went in to the Panel separately , although they were to be treated as one case . |
| 12 | On Thursday night — late night shopping — Nails went down to the supermarket in his anorak with the big pockets and lifted six electric plugs , four pairs of scissors and a pair of pillowcases which he sold to a friend of his father 's for three pounds . |
| 13 | Matters went awry for the Allies from the start . |
| 14 | The ponies walked slowly because their feet went down into the snow . |
| 15 | William Shirer , whose CBS broadcasts went out from the Rundfunkhaus , noted in his diary that Goebbels 's Ministry of Propaganda thought the drawling nasal voice ‘ wholly unfit for broadcasting ’ . |
| 16 | The anniversary of that incident was ‘ celebrated ’ on May 9 last month when firebombs went off in the shopping mall of The Galleries shopping centre at Bristol , at the opposite end of the country . |
| 17 | The days of casual sex from encounters in bars and discos went out with the arrival of AIDS , at least as a way of life . |
| 18 | With Sophie back behind much stronger bars , the intrepid PCs went back to the school yesterday to claim their reward chocolate coins . |
| 19 | Celebrations went on into the morning and Paul and Fiona , along with many of their friends , stayed on in Jersey for a week 's holiday , before flying to Greece for their honeymoon . |
| 20 | The buyers went away with the dog , unaware of the aftermath of unhappiness left behind . |
| 21 | She called them girls but many were women whose working days went back to the Utility dresses and khaki battle-dress . |
| 22 | we had our red and white rosettes and when our , I was sitting watching the match and when they scored the goal my slippers went up in the air . |
| 23 | Erm and on a Friday all the beds went out onto the grass outside the wards for the wards to be cleaned |
| 24 | This time , the lights went up on the slipper-fight . |
| 25 | For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world . |
| 26 | As dark fell , street lights went on in the square and many demonstrators lit paper torches . ’ |
| 27 | She had talked of a sex scene when she was on Wogan , but he assumed it would be something more romantic — a magnolia bud of a tit peeping from beneath bed linen as she held out her arms to her lover and the lights went down at the end of the play . |
| 28 | In Sydney things went well from the start . |
| 29 | ‘ Good God , I thought those things went out with the ark . |
| 30 | So all those things went out of the window which makes life easier . |