Example sentences of "went [adv prt] [conj] [art] [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 | It had explosive charges laid ready to blow it up , and two small ones went off as the American troops started to cross . |
| 5 | It just went off and the whole place shook . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Thank God for Madge , ’ Busacher reflected grimly as the curtain went up and the enchanted ballroom brought a round of applause from the audience . |
| 9 | Crowds of people went out and a young clergyman came in and ordered a pint of bitter . |
| 10 | " The soldiers went out and the first creature they found was Rabscuttle , grazing on the hill-top . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But the stars soon lost their sheen and went out as the first strain of light eased away the darkness . |
| 13 | On 20 June Peugeot went back and the first sackings of trade union leaders occurred . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |