Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] went [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The island of Angistri went up in flames within minutes of being declared a wildlife refuge . |
| 2 | Later in the debate , Sir Geoffrey Howe ( now Lord Howe ) , whilst speaking in support of Maastricht went out of his way to congratulate Richard Shepherd on the ‘ quality of his speech ’ . |
| 3 | Egyptian knowledge of Anatolia went back much further : the Greco-Karian city of Pedasa , just north of Halikarnassus , is mentioned in the Gazetteer of Amenhope ( twelfth century BC ) . |
| 4 | In the spring and early summer the archbishops of Bremen and of Magdeburg and the bishop of Osnabruck went over to Philip . |
| 5 | Expansion south towards the nearby colony of Maryland went on fast enough for a pair of surveyors , Mason and Dixon , to have to draw a boundary between the two in 1702 , though this line was not completely accepted for some decades . |
| 6 | Some of them came to Kufra , and a deputation of Zuwaya went out to meet them in the desert , inviting them to turn back . |
| 7 | Baron of Buchlyvie went back to Dunure Mains with William Dunlop the undisputed sole owner . |
| 8 | In Andalusia little was to be gained by resistance at a time when French power looked invincibly stable : the intellectuals of Seville went over en bloc and acceptance of the inevitable became active collaboration in those groups where hatred of Godoy 's ‘ tyranny ’ had been combined with a qualified admiration for the French Revolution and enthusiastic regalism . |
| 9 | Seen here at age 3 , this proud son of Durham went on to captain England at cricket — and rugby football . |
| 10 | A historian concerned to reconstruct the life of Abraham as exactly as possible wants to know what changes the story of Abraham went through in the process of retelling . |
| 11 | The bank rate went down , and so did the Irish government , while the weight of lorries allowed on the roads of Britain went up from 3212 to 38 tonnes . |
| 12 | His majority in a constituency which includes rural Teesdale and part of Weardale went up by three thousand , a 2.5pc swing . |
| 13 | Once we 'd established that nothing had been left behind Emily went off to catch a bus and I decided that no one would mind if I popped my head round the doors of the suite of rooms which George had occupied . |
| 14 | ‘ The situation with M'tronix went on till ‘ 87 , but I realised around ‘ 86 that I was n't getting to the public with my own stuff ; all I was doing was perpetuating Fender and Marshall 's reputations , because their amps formed the bulk of our work . |
| 15 | No further colonization could be attempted while the war with Spain went on , partly because ships bound for the North American seacoast were forced by the prevailing winds to go uncomfortably far north or dangerously close to the Spanish settlement in the south , but interest revived after peace was made with Spain in 1604 . |
| 16 | After a week 's crash course in teaching English to foreign students , she and a girl from Lincoln went out to Cracow , Poland 's second largest city , to work in a school for the blind and partially sighted . |
| 17 | After these exchanges , fighting in Kurdestan went on for some considerable time . |
| 18 | People who could n't tell Weber from Webern went along to cheer their favourite tenor and be seen with their bums on a fifty-quid seat . |
| 19 | They turned back , but the 2 Bosnian guides and men from from Bradford went on . |
| 20 | Grocery prices in Britain went up 26 per cent between 1985 and 1990 — compared with five per cent in Germany and 16 per cent in France . |
| 21 | In the last year employment in Britain went down by 873,000 . |
| 22 | As a result of deflation , productivity in Britain went down last year , whereas in Germany it went up . |
| 23 | The £700,000 transfer from Charlton went through only 48 hours after Lee rejected the chance to link up again with his former boss Lennie Lawrence . |
| 24 | Three days ago , a 400lb bomb which destroyed the Stewarts supermarket in Derriaghy went off just 15 minutes after what the terrorists had claimed was a 45-minute warning . |
| 25 | In the 1950s and 60s dowries in India went down generally because gold was controlled , but not so in East Africa , where dowries rose as though they would never stop . |
| 26 | Meantime the wonderful enchanted season that had begun with the opening of the show in April went on . |
| 27 | I mean we 've only got to have a look at the recent events in London went on about the insurances over the bombings over the weekend have n't we ? |
| 28 | He stood at the gates evening after evening , but was always gone when the 5.13 to Blackburn went through . |
| 29 | The Carlton meeting on Monday went off quite admirably . |
| 30 | and er anyway he got home about half past three so we had to go down to Marks went down to Marks , came back and he bought me a sandwich , I said I 've eaten nothing all day , bought me this sandwich , I was hoping to go away at six |