Example sentences of "[noun pl] went [adv prt] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Journalist Diana Hutchinson , of the Daily Mail , pointed out that it might be a question of ‘ the young baby left alone while the parents went out to play in the summer sunshine ’ .
2 Fists went on hammering on the door .
3 Friday and I stayed to watch the prisoners , while the captain and his men went back to fight for the ship .
4 With the dropping of 11 days , the old March 25 became April 5 , and tax collectors went on working from the old day with its new date .
5 Indeed , many of those children whose fathers went off to fight in the war experienced that same sense of inner rejection , even though as they grew older they were able to understand the truth of the matter .
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