Example sentences of "went [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never quite went on to the big scores but has now begun to put that right . |
| 2 | We went on towards the double doors . |
| 3 | It would not be proper or right for me to discuss what went on on the specific issues in the Cabinet and I do n't wish to do so . |
| 4 | ‘ Anyway , ’ said Lydia , sitting up , ‘ it was Beuno who went on about the golden emerods . ’ |
| 5 | Who knew what strange rites went on in the savage mountains beyond Tirana , what musical instruments they played , where mad King Zog had ruled . |
| 6 | Captions on the screen can give brief information about what went on in the missing bits and how much time has elapsed . |
| 7 | No matter which coach you went on in the old days ( and the Brightside and Carbrook Co-op ones were the best ) there was always a shilling sweep for the biggest fish and another shilling for the best roach . |
| 8 | In recent months the residents of the area around the bar had been complaining almost nightly to the police about the noise that went on until the small hours and about the hypodermics left strewn around the piazza , a serious health hazard to the children who played there during the day . |
| 9 | With time , however , ‘ the judges put away their learning and went along with the expressed needs of commerce … the conditional vendor 's right to be a chattel mortgagee , when it suited him , was almost everywhere acknowledged ’ . |
| 10 | We went along to the various stations . |
| 11 | Mains went along in the provincial games , playing steadily , scoring points ( he became top for the tour with 132 , 53 ahead of Bryan Williams and 77 clear of the third , Sid Going ) . |
| 12 | ‘ I only realised he was any good when he was 13 and went down to the English schools Under-14 championships at Queens one Monday . |
| 13 | He went down into the foetid holds of the ‘ sick ships ’ of the second fleet where hundreds lay dying or ill . |
| 14 | The first time she rang the bell and went in through the front doors of the elegant old house where the showrooms were situated ( Mattli had no rear entrance ) Paula felt she was stepping into the place of her dreams . |
| 15 | He waited another second , then shrugged his shoulders and went in through the double doors . |
| 16 | If you look at the people who went in for the Olympic Games , right up to the Second World War , erm you would call them amateurs . |
| 17 | Sharpe went through to the deserted kitchens and found some bread , cheese and ale . |
| 18 | Howls of laughter went up from the other boys . |
| 19 | A huge cheer — somewhere between a wolf-whistle and a blown kiss — went up from the Tory backbenches . |
| 20 | She gathered her pages of notes and went out into the sunlit streets . |
| 21 | Dry and tinned stores were issued readily , but meat , vegetables and fruit were not so easy to procure , and often I went out into the surrounding villages to buy up food which normally would have come into the Maymyo bazaar . |
| 22 | The mowers went out into the little fields of wheat and oats , and the sheaves stood yellow in the stubble . |
| 23 | She went out with the other milkmaids to the cows in the fields . |
| 24 | He had formed what later became the Prince 's Trust while he was in the Navy , and the grants that went out in the early years were paid for , anonymously , out of his naval allowance . |
| 25 | I travelled up from Kings Cross with Sidney , Daryl Bligh of the Graphic , K. B. D. Clarke of the Times , ‘ Tibby ’ Tisdale of the News , Stanford Roberts , of course , and I think we had Norton Malley with us , who would at that time I suppose have been on the Morning Post , though he later went back to the Irish Times . |
| 26 | Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ? |
| 27 | Periodically I went back to the northern wastes again , a sort of alchemical prep school where , like Lorne , I sustained myself through the dark times with dreams of the southern islands . |
| 28 | I think if we went back to the Inca ways , things would get better . |
| 29 | Gascoigne , first embraced by his team-mates , went back to the faithful fans — the Laziali , and slung his shirt into their midst . |
| 30 | They left the woods and went around by the neighbouring fields — ‘ blind ’ country where the ditches and drains were all concealed in coarse , overgrown grass . |