Example sentences of "went [adv] [conj] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so the showing of chrysom babies on brasses went on until the second quarter of the seventeenth century , the last three in the extant series being 1600,1606 and 1631 . |
| 2 | The work went on until the last marcher had been patched up . |
| 3 | The house lights went down and the small posse of hack musicians who slouched in the orchestra pit began to saw indifferently at their instruments . |
| 4 | To me it meant that your involvement with Jones went deeper than the superficial thing I 'd been imagining . |
| 5 | There are no bureaucrats going round counting the jobs that never happened , the jobs that went away or the small firms that have packed up because they could no longer make a profit under the new controls and restrictions on their work force . |
| 6 | They went downstairs and the old lady was waiting for them in the hall . |
| 7 | Domestically , Brandt also went further than the Grand Coalition in extending state intervention in the economy , with the intention of fostering a more egalitarian , caring society . |
| 8 | She went home and the next morning began rebuilding her life . |
| 9 | It had explosive charges laid ready to blow it up , and two small ones went off as the American troops started to cross . |
| 10 | It just went off and the whole place shook . |
| 11 | An attempted break-in at King Hope accountants in Romanby Road , Northallerton , was thwarted when the alarm went off and the would-be thieves fled . |
| 12 | Then at last a cheer went up as the first portions of the ‘ bicentenary pie ’ were served to the 50,000 people who presented their £1 tickets . |
| 13 | ‘ Thank God for Madge , ’ Busacher reflected grimly as the curtain went up and the enchanted ballroom brought a round of applause from the audience . |
| 14 | " The soldiers went out and the first creature they found was Rabscuttle , grazing on the hill-top . |
| 15 | For a brief moment , the terrible Red-Hot Smoke-Belching Gruncher made the lake boil and smoke like a volcano , then the fire went out and the awesome beast disappeared under the waves . |
| 16 | But the stars soon lost their sheen and went out as the first strain of light eased away the darkness . |
| 17 | On 20 June Peugeot went back and the first sackings of trade union leaders occurred . |
| 18 | Not all went well as the second half began . |
| 19 | The seminars all went well and the Australian branches have received a number of enquiries as a result . |
| 20 | All went well and the 600 tonne roof was lowered safely down on to the reactor . |
| 21 | But the weeks went by and the 5 months I had off work which at first seemed an eternity soon became 5 weeks and then 5 days . |
| 22 | The truth was that as the days went by and the heavy rain showed no sign of slackening for very long it became clear that something very frightening had begun to happen . |
| 23 | What Charles said in major speeches which he put a great deal of time and thought into , seldom went farther than the four walls he spoke within . |