Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] went [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 The majority went on feeling unsure about his real convictions , while the minority were not assuaged .
2 I do n't really understand it but the the apprentice went down in the pit of course and the older man was above and they worked this saw all this sawdust was coming
3 As the prayer went on he showed he had already mastered the priestly mumble .
4 With the raffle short of a grand by just a few quid , the cry for the remainder went up .
5 In April the Prince went off to the Kalahari Desert for a few days with Sir Laurens Van der Post , to see for himself the society that his friend had written and talked about so much .
6 The Prince went back to the bible and put his hand on it .
7 More than 1,000 priests had threatened to resign if the change went through .
8 It was evident , as the trial went on , that Lord Robertson had held for many years a belief amounting to an article of faith that Meehan and Griffiths had committed the Ayr murder , and that so paltry a matter as overwhelming evidence to show that they had n't and that Waddell and McGuinness had , was in no way going to sway him .
9 Russell ignored him but the ranting went on and finally there was a small exchange .
10 And the home-help went off , pushing her bike , rehearsing her story in her head , improving it , adding a little detail here and there .
11 [ The Board went on to hold that the contract was not voidable for economic duress — see below , pp. 237 , 64 ( 652 and Atiyah ( 1982 ) 98 L.Q.R. 197 and ( 1983 ) 99 L.Q.R. 353 and Tiplady ( 1983 ) 99 L.Q.R. 188 . ]
12 The winner went by , toga flying , his helmet all cocked to one side
13 The tide went out as fast as it came in , and it was not unusual for large fish to be stranded in one of the various sized lakes left behind in the sand hollows .
14 Brynllys has been farmed organically by Rachel 's family since 1942 , but until 1982 all the milk went off in the tanker with everybody else 's , putting the lie to the old chestnut that organic producers must have a premium .
15 This week the company went into receivership and the heart went out of the British fashion industry .
16 In most cases the money went on replacing or improving old buildings , not in building chapels where there had been none before .
17 The computer went down for a while , it 's probably full of water
18 Needless to say , nobody knew , but the bidding went up in units ( people do like a nice round unit for this type of speculation ) of £500,000 .
19 The librarian , fearful of fire , gently shooed Corbett out so the clerk went down to stroll in the monastery 's small herb garden while he rigorously analysed all he had learnt in his journey to Kinghorn .
20 Between 1862 and 1870 the size of the reserve went up from 210,000 men to 553,000 .
21 However , piling operations began almost simultaneously and Alan Muir , construction director of Muir Construction of Inverkeithing , the main contractor , said that though the earth-moving phase at the beginning of the contract went on for four weeks , the piling operation began almost as soon as the firm moved on to the site .
22 The contract went out to competitive tender and though ours was higher priced than some they liked its performance and capability . ’
23 Suddenly the headlights of the Glory went out and they found themselves sitting in pitch darkness .
24 ‘ Bill , what would you do if one of the gang went out at night and told someone all about us , and what we 'd done ?
25 A BR spokeswoman said : ‘ The gang went down the train smashing windows and light bulbs and scaring the passengers .
26 ‘ What I ca n't understand , ’ the Archdeacon went on , ‘ is why Dersingham put Marr in in the first place . ’
27 It 's thought the 92 year old had left the gas on … when she went to make a cup of tea the kitchen went up .
28 It 's thought the 92 year old had left the gas on … when she went to make a cup of tea the kitchen went up .
29 The Heritage went down at about 6:30am while fishing with its sister boat , the Katie Jane .
30 When we , we using B H C vaccine in eigh er , late seventies , early eighties , erm , that caused problems because we had residues left in the meat , and the French amongst others found it as well , so there were , there were problems there , and the Ministry went over to organo-phos or to organo-phosphorus dips , they were the only alternative that they 'd got at that er , time .
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