Example sentences of "[noun pl] went [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Footsteps went past in the corridor and then the door to the Governor 's office opened . |
| 4 | The buyers went away with the dog , unaware of the aftermath of unhappiness left behind . |
| 5 | In Sydney things went well from the start . |
| 6 | Apprenticeship was , however , a youth as much as a class phenomenon , and although Horace Walpole might remark of Vauxhall pleasure garden that everybody from " the Duke of Grafton down to children out of the Foundling hospital " went there , an admission fee of 2s 6d a head was a considerable barrier , though some women from the lower orders went there in the way of business . |
| 7 | The grindstones went especially to the steel works of Sheffield ( q.v . ) . |
| 8 | ( That there were actual preliminary deme elections to determine which names went forward to the ballot is unlikely given that fourth-century Attic oratory , of which a great deal survives , is wholly silent about such elections — although the new Thorikos text , for instance ( p. 111 ) , shows that there were some elections at deme level . ) |
| 9 | Normally when she came here she and her friends went directly to the restaurant of their choice . |
| 10 | The men went all round the house with the scanners and everywhere was radioactive-the kitchen , the bedroom , the bathroom . |
| 11 | These two men went directly to the site to place on record the facts of the find and it is from them that we know so much of Hailing Man . |
| 12 | Despite the destruction , church services went ahead at the weekend in five churches in Armagh as workmen continued to clear up after the IRA bomb attack on the courthouse . |
| 13 | ‘ Are you sure you 're OK , Connie ? ’ he whispered to Connon as the others went ahead through the door . |
| 14 | Revenues from Crown lands went increasingly to the Chamber rather than to the Exchequer and money was stored in the Jewel House of the Household . |
| 15 | The development of steam engines owed a lot to the tin-mining industry , because as shafts went deeper below the surface , better means of lowering and raising men and ore and pumping out water taxed the brains of engineers . |