Example sentences of "it went [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The last I saw of it was the bow sticking out of the water as the ship broke its back , and it went up in a V-shape , a Victory sign if you like , but we knew there were two men on board , one of whom I knew as a mess-mate . ’
2 But someone discovered in China that you could put them together and it went off with a bang .
3 It went off inside a bin which shot into the air sending clouds of smoke everywhere .
4 As it went down to a flutter of clapping , John added : ‘ They wanted to study the effects .
5 I took the hot , spicy drink and it went down like a stream of molten lava .
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