Example sentences of "went [adv prt] [subord] [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 It had explosive charges laid ready to blow it up , and two small ones went off as the American troops started to cross .
4 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 .
5 But the stars soon lost their sheen and went out as the first strain of light eased away the darkness .
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