Example sentences of "of [noun] went [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until the opening of the Swan Theatre in 1965 , the Worcester Society of Artists went under the name of The Society for the Advancement of Music and the Visual Arts , founded in 1947 . |
| 2 | Well the earnings of course went into the business we 'd er There was Dad , he 'd retired then out of the pits , early . |
| 3 | A lot of them of course went to the quarries , but then they had a little steamer called the Florence Cook and she plied wherever she went and you probably know where she went . |
| 4 | ‘ Lot of money went on the favourite . ’ |
| 5 | The potential we could receive here , erm the kind of people who live here , the numbers of people who live here now and in the future , the types of housing and housing again , in the future and all in all a g a great deal of study went into the area . |
| 6 | Six months of research went into the changes and Trevor emerged as a person who was respected , carried weight and authority and who was liked and trusted . |
| 7 | A special vote of thanks went to the organiser , Graham Davies . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , that 's so much more interesting than hearing how many tons of marble went into the Arch of Constantine ! ’ |
| 9 | Thousands of companies went to the wall . |
| 10 | A ripple of laughter went through the staff , but it was silenced instantly with a look from him . |
| 11 | An audible ripple of laughter went round the court room as Brown denied vehemently that he had been ‘ set up to take the rap for the footballer ’ . |
| 12 | League dynamo Robert Irwin masterminded the thriving Greystone table tennis league and ensured that all the players had a feast of competition throughout the season , and pride of place went to the Cookstown team which included a unique father and daughter combination in Joe and Joanne Hutton , as well as the Scott brothers Alistair and Nigel . |
| 13 | There was also a custom by which a boy at his first harvest under the old system of farming went through the ordeal of First Nail or Shoeing the Colt . |
| 14 | Tealtaoich paused again and stood waiting and a murmur of approval went through the others . |
| 15 | But the Romanian model of glorification went beyond the norms seen in Sub-Saharan Africa — not even Emperor Bokassa was able to make the cult of himself pervade every aspect of life in his country , as Ceauşescu did . |
| 16 | A GANG of thugs went on the ramage and caused damage worth more than £4,000 in an attack on animals and staff at Belfast Zoo , it was revealed today . |
| 17 | A set of priorities went with the job and if you took on the job you took on the priorities . |
| 18 | On 24 May 1988 , the last bit of meat went out the door , and an hour later I felt I 'd never seen a T-bone steak ! ’ |
| 19 | A wave of shock went through the hall . |
| 20 | Then the pack of zander went through the swim and as they went by I took fish of 6lb 8oz , 8lb0oz , 8lb 6oz , 5lb 15oz and l0lb 11oz as fast as I could reel them in and then they were gone . |
| 21 | Both were essentially seminaries — a majority of undergraduates went into the church in the first half of the century- and finishing schools , where teaching rather than research was the norm . |
| 22 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 23 | We put a marker buoy over the site and a pair of divers went over the side to investigate . |
| 24 | GANGS of youths went on the rampage early yesterday , turning Christmas celebrations into chaos . |
| 25 | As is usual with a carnival , it started with a Fancy Dress Procession around the parish , which finished at the Shady Bower Field , and a great deal of thought went into the entries . |
| 26 | A ripple of life went over the face of Mark the publisher 's assistant . |
| 27 | If the Secretary of State went beyond the bounds of ‘ guidance ’ he exceeded his powers ; and the Civil Aviation Authority was under no obligation to obey him . |
| 28 | In November the Nixon-Agnew ticket swept to victory by 47 million votes to 29 million : only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia went to the Democrats . |
| 29 | A flight of cormorant went past the tip of the headland , low to the water but sharply silhouetted in the last , lucid moment before true dusk . |
| 30 | Balor gave a last bubbling cry and a sudden ripple of triumph went through the Trees as the farthest of the Oaks pulled free an arm and held it aloft , a bloody stump , a torn-off gobbet of flesh . |