Example sentences of "[noun] went under the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps my father would not be so proud after all , she reflected , and sat in silence until the wedding carriage went under the high stone archway and into the blue-tiled courtyard of the Quinta de Santo António . |
| 2 | A Baptism of Christ by sixteenth-century Venetian artist Carlotto Carliari sold for only FFr30,000 ( £3,000 ; $5,300 ) , within its estimate , a seventeenth-century oil on copper of the Holy Family attributed to the ‘ entourage ’ of Sassoferrato went for FFr29,000 ( £2,900 ; $5,100 ) and a Virgin and Child attributed to eighteenth-century French painter Jean Restout went under the hammer for FFr 22,000 . |
| 3 | So that was the point at which the garter bar went under the settee and gathered dust . |
| 4 | The belts went under the hammer in a Sotheby 's auction in Canterbury fetching forty two thousand pounds . |
| 5 | The former teacher went under the razor at Westminster along with five Labour MPs and one Conservative . |
| 6 | A RARE 1966 World Cup Final programme autographed by the England team went under the hammer for £500 at an auction this weekend . |
| 7 | Her diary went under the pillow , her nightdress on top . |
| 8 | Of course the moth went for the light , Jay went under the pillow , and the moth settled on a huge picture she had of a golden African dawn . |
| 9 | Until the opening of the Swan Theatre in 1965 , the Worcester Society of Artists went under the name of The Society for the Advancement of Music and the Visual Arts , founded in 1947 . |
| 10 | Ballymoney , Portadown and Glentoran are ones Coleraine prepared earlier ; Ards went under the knife last night . |