Example sentences of "went [adv] with a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I see , ’ the Doctor went on with a harder edge in his voice , ‘ that you are the sort of hypocritical egomaniac who talks about betrayal when he 's condemning thousands of his own people in Haiti and millions in Africa and elsewhere to living the lives of mere insects ! ’
2 The pressure to marry young went along with a renewed convention of pre-marital chastity .
3 The leaderene went down with a satisfying thump , her spiked coronet falling off .
4 On the third day out , Rachel went down with a high temperature and swellings in the groin .
5 The ideas for the story changed and Tony went in with a Mujahadeen espionage unit , though he uses the term lightly .
6 Tess Lemmon went down to the farm , looked a pig in the eye and , in the spirit of the continuing BBC1 series ‘ Lifesense ’ , went away with a new pig perspective .
7 Do you think the children of the congregation went away with a great love of the mass ?
8 I picked a fight with the biggest one , which turned into a full-pitch playground battle , and went home with a bloody nose , two black eyes and a front tooth missing . ’
9 So Suzanne went home with a 10 day course of penicillin to take .
10 He went home with a single man whose mantelpiece was crowded with framed family photos — partners , holidays , weddings , babies , graduations , christenings ; the man ( who was gorgeous ) told Boy that he worked in a photo processing lab , and that none of the photos were of his own family or lovers , but were all stolen .
11 Barkes went off with a torn calf muscle early in the second half , but Mark Butler stretched the lead with a penalty and a drop goal .
12 Swindon 's right-back Hockaday went off with a fractured cheekbone just before half-time .
13 The bow went off with a terrible noise , like bones breaking .
14 He went off with a medium spring to his step and I saw him later with his arms round Donna 's shoulders , which was n't ( as far as I knew ) in his script .
15 Latus has some experience in the No 9 shirt , including the match at Stockton in December , when he made the switch after Kenyon went off with a dislocated shoulder .
16 Substitute Andy Payton had a chance after Stuart Ripley went off with a dead leg .
17 Dan Jackart , the other capped prop , went off with a damaged shoulder in the first half against North Harbour but came on as a replacement for Szabo .
18 He went off with a lovely bang . ’
19 Others record that she patiently concluded the business then before the court , and went off with a reliable escort to hold a council with Bothwell about the taming of Liddesdale and empower him to hold courts in Hermitage itself .
20 Hotel duty manager George Ashou , who was only 10ft from the blast , said : ‘ The bomb went off with a muffled crump .
21 Miley Taylor of Deepdale , who was in the Home Guard at the time , went out with a horse-drawn sledge to bring the bodies of the crew , all French-Canadians , down into Dent .
22 I went out with a new boy for a while and we fell in love .
23 ‘ Today he went out with a big score on the board and 15 overs remaining .
24 We went there with a new cloth on the drum , as near as could be ; and when we come away there was n't a piece of it no bigger than your hand .
25 Doing Ophelia on stage before taking up the BBC contract meant that I went there with a little track record — I 'd been blooded , if you like , and it made the whole thing a lot better .
26 Then the monkey went round with a little tin cup .
27 Carter went quietly with a resigned look , his two young sons standing bemused and bewildered .
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