Example sentences of "went [adj] at 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 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |