Example sentences of "went [adv prt] and the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It just went off and the whole place shook . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Thank God for Madge , ’ Busacher reflected grimly as the curtain went up and the enchanted ballroom brought a round of applause from the audience . |
| 5 | " The soldiers went out and the first creature they found was Rabscuttle , grazing on the hill-top . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | On 20 June Peugeot went back and the first sackings of trade union leaders occurred . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |