Example sentences of "went [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stockings they knitted went on to the feet of the British Army , and so great was the demand and so determinedly was it met that the Romantic writer Southey called them the " Terrible Knitters of Dent " , terrible meaning not bad but fierce , terribly good . |
| 2 | We went on to the marshes with the soldiers and found the escaped convicts fighting each other . |
| 3 | Eventually he sighed again , picked up his bag and went on up the steps into his house . |
| 4 | I mean we 've only got to have a look at the recent events in London went on about the insurances over the bombings over the weekend have n't we ? |
| 5 | I just went on about the frogs in the flowers , and I never thought about his dreams . |
| 6 | I think this is one of the essentials in Harlow and something that people should not forget , that is that , although there is a great deal of criticism possibly of the standard of building that went on over the years of the Development Corporation , compared with what most people came from , there was a very great elevation both in quality and in ideas . |
| 7 | But yes , I mean there was b battering went on in the flats from time to time . |
| 8 | But Cadfael was certain by then that Herluin did not know his Tutilo at all , probably never had any clear idea what went on in the minds of any of his novices , because he paid no regard to them . |
| 9 | He was not a fool ; he knew what went on in the fields about his home in summer ; he was not himself without desires , desires and curiosity . |
| 10 | The Canterbury batsman also recalled some of the fun that went on behind the scenes of that tour . |
| 11 | I really only went along to the interviews for a lark , as company for a friend . |
| 12 | Which the authorities could not understand , because everyone knew that at lunchtime Mr Wolski always went down to the benches by the Cages and ate his sandwiches looking at the eagles . |
| 13 | On one occasion a team of five men went down into the tunnels for which purpose they had to pass through the line of empty stabled cars . |
| 14 | But your your proposal was not accepted and the budget went through with no cuts to the benefits or the remuneration for the Councillors . |
| 15 | Some then went off to the latrines behind the back of the hall , which Charlie thought smelled worse than the middle of Whitechapel Road on a steaming summer 's day . |
| 16 | Taking a hint from the fame and antiquity of Egyptian flax working , Roberts went off to the banks of the Nile to study the Temple of Karnak , and came back to build Mr Marshall a factory in like fashion , which soon became known , naturally enough , as the Temple Mill . |
| 17 | With some difficulty I managed to get a permit to travel from Parma in a bus which went up into the hills to Lagrimone ; once there , I would walk to the house of a Signor Ugolotti , some distance from the village . |
| 18 | I helped with the cows and the chickens , and went up on the hills with Mr Parks and his dog to look at the sheep . |
| 19 | I slipped in by the cemetery gate , as I left , and he went up through the trees to the path by which he had made his way to join me . |
| 20 | As the Flamingo herself cast off and manoeuvred into position to sail down the broad river , a wild cheer went up from the emigrants on deck . |
| 21 | When at last the French coast came in sight , a cheer went up from the soldiers on deck . |
| 22 | A buzz of wordless terror went up from the men around him as they craned over his shoulder to look . |
| 23 | Suppose she went out into the woods with … him , and they were going to make love … or they 'd done it … and she said ‘ I 'm pregnant , you 're the father , what are you going to do about it ? ’ |
| 24 | I was specially grateful to the 8 ‘ Men of God ’ ( those who saw Voyager on 18-5-86 will take the point ) who went out into the homes in the Parish as collectors , and as ambassadors for our Church , because the house-to-house collection is such an important part of Christian Aid . |
| 25 | He was celebrating a new job at Christmas and went out with the boys in his smart pin-stripes . |
| 26 | I went out with the dogs into the volume of the night . |
| 27 | In the afternoon , they went out on the moors with the cameras , and she sat crouched over the plates while the logic of the sentences fell apart completely . |
| 28 | He also went out to the streets of Sedgefield to interview villagers on their feelings about the Sedgefield ball game . |
| 29 | She went out to the dykes on the edge by the water |
| 30 | The students went out from the campuses into the factories , to be greeted , initially , by hostile Communist officials and puzzled workers , but the agitation continued , the slogans proliferated . |