Example sentences of "[noun pl] went [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And I believed that this world of darkness and changing images went on without a break , as unceasingly as the other less real one outside , wherever outside was , and by some unlikely philanthropic gesture of the city corporation was allowed to co-exist and be connected by the little dark doors with dark portholes . |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't let Dad hear for God 's sake , ’ she moaned quietly , as all her inhibitions went out of the window . |
| 4 | Schools went in for a lot of physical education , ‘ drill ’ , which involved jumping about in a drafty hall with your skirt tucked into your knickers if you were female . |
| 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 | Her words went in like a knife . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was the highest total and the biggest increase since March 1991 , when shoppers went out on a spending spree to beat the rise in value-added tax rates . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | One such occasion was Labor Day 1949 , when my parents went off on a holiday barbecue or picnic and deposited the three oldest toys — David [ eight ] , Johnny [ six ] and Alvin [ four ] — with a teenage black babysitter named Earl at the Ritz to see Li'l Abner [ the early black and white version , with Buster Keaton in a small part ] and I Married a Witch . |
| 11 | It was his grandmother he spent his fifth birthday with and that same year his parents went off on a tour of the Commonwealth , which took them away from him for six long months . |
| 12 | The four sets of parents went in to the Panel separately , although they were to be treated as one case . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The ponies walked slowly because their feet went down into the snow . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | With Sophie back behind much stronger bars , the intrepid PCs went back to the school yesterday to claim their reward chocolate coins . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |
| 20 | She called them girls but many were women whose working days went back to the Utility dresses and khaki battle-dress . |
| 21 | The years went by in a bundle of exercise books , seasons succeeding one another as flycatchers came and went , orchids were noted and then vanished , temperatures varied from the normal . |
| 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 | ‘ Good God , I thought those things went out with the ark . |
| 29 | So all those things went out of the window which makes life easier . |
| 30 | After the first round 8 teams went through to the final comprising 5 AIB Bank teams from Bank Place Ennis , Nenagh , Bindon St. , Ennis , 63 O'Connell St. , Limerick and Charlesville , B/I 94 O'Connell St. , Limerick and Ulster Bank O'Connell St. Limerick . |