Example sentences of "went [adj] [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SCOTT Garthwaite 's mum Susan thought he would never hear again when he went deaf at the age of two . |
| 2 | She left her office at about five forty-five , saw Naylor 's Jaguar in the car park and went weak at the knees about him for a few seconds , then she determinedly got into her own car and drove home . |
| 3 | HOLLYWOOD superstar Harrison Ford was left gasping when a spectacular film stunt went wrong during the making of his latest hit movie . |
| 4 | They are one of the few reactors in the country which , if anything went wrong with the core in any way , could not be shut down . |
| 5 | Telling one 's own stories to children of different ages is extremely satisfying and also shows you where you went wrong in the rhythm of a sentence ; unconsciously you alter it to fit the audience in front of you and get it right , so that it makes its point swiftly and powerfully . |
| 6 | Whatever went wrong in the years of Mary 's personal rule , therefore , simply can not be explained by inherited weakness ; her problems have nothing to do with insecure monarchy and overmighty subjects . |
| 7 | Yesterday it was also disclosed that glamorous Suzannah Dwyer told her devastated husband of her romance 24 hours before Bates went public with the news at a press conference . |
| 8 | Every night in the theatre she went high in the air on her swing , over the heads of all the people . |
| 9 | I 'd just finished filling the hip flask when it went dark in the bar as a truck pulled up at the traffic lights outside . |
| 10 | In each case you you did it this is what I like you went straight for it you went straight for the salt on the most difficult one the carbonate . |
| 11 | But Garvey 's fingers went white with the amount of strength he had to apply to get Lucie on his knees . |
| 12 | He played in 20 Test matches and his post-war service to Yorkshire included three years as Club president , a position he vacated sadly when he found his calls for moderation went unheeded at the height of the Boycott controversy . |
| 13 | As Clarke and Morrison discuss , their data are comparable with other studies in Fiji : such losses were known to be occurring more than 20 years ago but went unheeded in the wake of development . |
| 14 | ‘ He was the strongest man I ever knew but he went blind through the strain of smithing . |
| 15 | Then , within two months of receiving it , his £30 million firm went bust in the Spring of 1991 . |
| 16 | In the privacy of her bedroom she grimaced in the direction of the voice and made her way downstairs , taking her time , not caring if he went grey in the process of waiting for her . |
| 17 | He went pink to the edge of his cap . |
| 18 | Well Notts went wide of the target on eight minutes , it was er all really set up by Gary with a little header down to Paul , inside right channel , lobbed it on to , the defence was wide open and who had n't scored this season got the very goal that he 's been wanting to score to add to his match winning performance on Saturday , when he was made the patrons ' player of the match and er he thumped the ball in the net , it was quite a blistering effort and Notts should 've settled down on that and certainly should 've settled down on twenty one . |
| 19 | And while her eyes went wide at the importance of that statement to the literary world , ‘ It was with no small degree of relief , ’ he continued , ‘ that I personally took my work to my publishers in Prague and , that done , resolved that apart from day-to-day correspondence I would have a whole month off — perhaps longer — and free my mind of anything connected with work . |
| 20 | I know about this bit from a telephone call from John — and I can still remember the click as the line went dead at the end of that conversation . |
| 21 | Binning their Two Tone pork-pie hats , the kids went wild for The Cult With No Name , aka Peacock Punk aka — New Romance ! |