Example sentences of "[noun sg] went [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the pink went a bit |
| 2 | Skiing a bit too fast … possibly slightly unfit — and ping went the strings of her ligaments |
| 3 | Ping went the lift bell at ground-floor level . |
| 4 | It was drawn from a cask , a cork inserted in the top of the bottle which was placed in the corking machine , one pull on the lever and home went the cork . |
| 5 | Dom-peromp — stamp — derompompompedom , derom — stamp — perom — stamp went the music as we clattered round the loose floorboards . |
| 6 | Back and forth flew the shuttle , clackety clack went the treadles of the loom , up and down sluiced the heddles , and the cloth grew until she had sufficient yardage for a gown ; she plied the scissors , cut out a pattern , sewed the seams and hemmed the border , and she was nearly faint with pain from the cactus pricks festering in her hands and halfway up her arms . |
| 7 | The results in table 3.4 were obtained for the test sentence : mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snow and everywhere that mary went the lamb was sure to go |
| 8 | She bawled lustily as each peg was snatched away , and screeched when the tip of the squirt went a centimetre too far to flick her quim lips . |
| 9 | Into Tommy 's holdall went the binoculars-camera and the hair curler ( one never knew ) , and I had the cigarette lighter-camera as always in my pocket . |
| 10 | The hearts of hopes of Oxford fans must have stopped beating at Peterborough on saturday when their team went a goal down , after 35 minutes as Sterling banged one in. 5 defeats in a row has been dreadful . |
| 11 | Pant pant whine whine went the noise . |
| 12 | I hope the drivel which appeared in the Sunday Times was not the result of a Vatican briefing , because it would be a terrible thing if the Holy See went the way of Westminster and Liverpool . |
| 13 | Allied with this theoretical shift went a reconceptualization of the role played by heredity in individual development . |
| 14 | Marty Feldman does anyone remember Marty Feldman when one eye went this way and one eye went the other ? that you know watching this happen . |
| 15 | Talk of more profit upgradings and lucrative sales of bits and pieces of Ward White Group went the rounds . |
| 16 | The service of the pastor was exemplified in Christ 's washing of his disciples ' feet , and so , whatever little present he might have received from another bishop , back went a towel from a seemingly inexhaustible linen cupboard . |
| 17 | Jokes about their own plight and sarcasms aimed at ‘ Them ’ at the top went the rounds as the standard of living fell steadily throughout Romania in the 1980s . |
| 18 | BRITISH Formula One team Lotus went a step further in their revival plans today by announcing a technical partnership with Mugen-Honda for a supply of V10 Grand Prix racing engines in 1994 and 1995 . |
| 19 | The barman took the dive for cover as half the bar-counter went the way of all flesh , only faster . |
| 20 | With the chair went a canonry at the cathedral . |
| 21 | The back went you know the seat of the chair went the back . |
| 22 | At the end of the day the pavements in this area would be covered with corn-samples discarded after a deal had been struck — the farmer would plunge his hand into his pocket , produce a sample which would be carefully examined by the dealer and then onto the ground went the handful to be gratefully devoured in due course by the rapidly growing pigeon population . |
| 23 | Ten minutes later round went the tip again but this time I was into something bigger . |
| 24 | AZUMAH NELSON of Ghana retained his WBC super-feather title in Lake Tahoe but Calvin Grove went the distance after being floored in the first round . |
| 25 | Cock and click went the super-gun . |
| 26 | The dale rocked with mirth for days as the story went the rounds and will probably be retold for another generation to come . |
| 27 | There were certain weeks when a driver went every night , others when they could get by with three deliveries a week . |
| 28 | Shaun — now hobbling around on crutches — added : ‘ My leg went the moment Linford crossed the line . ’ |
| 29 | The excitement had been intense and Denis watched in alarm as his uncle went every shade of red before going into purple and subsiding again to pink as the tension eased . |
| 30 | The 29-year-old Frenchman went the distance with the former European champion Jean-Marc Renard , of Belgium , last year . |