Example sentences of "[noun sg] went [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A large chunk of the £4 million investment went on improvements in the mill to increase production capacity — operations manager gives us the details . |
| 2 | Congress , not so long ago we had Panorama and I T V , and I congratulate both of 'em , for highlighting to the world the problems of temporary and low paid part-time workers , where one agent went under cover and where Panorama highlighted that temporary working conditions , not of back-street sweatshops , not of the little corner shops down the road , or th or the little needlework factories , but of E M I , one of our biggest producers in this country , that they were employing labour for one year eleven months and twenty eight days and then sacking 'em . |
| 3 | The Wallace Trophy went to Anita McCaw , from Royal Co Down , who pipped Bangor 's Valerie James right on the post ( one hole ) . |
| 4 | Just a few hours before this programme went to press we spotted a tremendously exciting traditional band at the Lorient Interceltic Festival in Brittany and invited them to join us tonight . |
| 5 | GIVEN THE curious blindness of members to BBC arts products , it was appropriate that the recent BAFTA award for best 1991 arts programme went to Channel 4 's Without Walls for Robert McKee 's constructive debunkery in J'Accuse — Citizen Kane . |
| 6 | Business Post , the express mail and parcel carrier went to TEC Consultants for advice when it set out on the path of getting its network accredited two years ago . |
| 7 | In the Senate , the PL won 72 of the 114 seats , the Conservative Party ( PC ) won 41 , and one seat went to Bernardo Jaramillo [ see below ] of the left-wing Patriotic Union ( UP ) . |
| 8 | Before going to China the Indonesian delegation went to Japan for Emperor Akihito 's enthronement on Nov. 12 [ see p. 37859 ] . |
| 9 | Appeals were sent to the sultan , and also a Serbian delegation went to Tsar Alexander I in St Petersburg . |
| 10 | Distillery went to sleep for long spells . |
| 11 | This sample transect went through forest , farmland and woodland , and also through five small villages , four of which had mercury vapour street lights . |
| 12 | During these nights , as all around me was silent — most of the neighbourhood went to bed at ten-thirty — I entered another world . |
| 13 | ‘ Alexander III is dead , killed when his horse went over Kinghorn Ness . |
| 14 | Lesser pickings from the reorganization went to William Stanley and Walter Devereux lord Ferrers . |
| 15 | Lesser pickings from the reorganization went to William Stanley and Walter Devereux lord Ferrers . |
| 16 | He was from the south side of the dale , which by custom went to Cotherstone , whilst we on our side went to Romaldkirk . |
| 17 | A stab of fear went through Anne as she thought of them out there in that inferno . |
| 18 | A rush of blood went to Rosheen 's head as the infection he had implanted did its work . |
| 19 | On 18 January 1948 , the first modern car went into service , and by January 1952 the entire winter Marton service was operated by modern railcoaches . |
| 20 | The contract for building the new car went to East Lancashire Coachbuilders of Blackburn , who also built Blackpool 's Atlantean buses . |
| 21 | As the car went along Tower Hill , fog rolled in from the Thames . |
| 22 | I mean if we go , we 're sitting on the outside and invariably they 're a bit over into the gangway well if a chap kept pushing against us as the car went round corners it would n't be very nice would it ? |
| 23 | ‘ A whole pound went on chocolate ? ’ |
| 24 | Another chapter was added recently when work on the long awaited new St Patrick 's Junior School was suddenly halted when the main contractor went into receivership at the beginning of this year . |
| 25 | ‘ The end came when a main contractor went into liquidation . |
| 26 | Now the problems have sparked a dispute between NCP and Darlington Council over which party is responsible for the repairs after the previous contractor went into liquidation . |
| 27 | Now the problems have sparked a dispute between NCP and Darlington Council over who is responsible for the repairs after the previous contractor went into liquidation . |
| 28 | Neither wants to accept responsibility for the repairs needed since the previous contractor went into liquidation . |
| 29 | Worrell did not go on that tour , but when West Indies went to England in 1957 under Goddard he was annoyed that the vice-captaincy went to Clyde Walcott ; Worrell and Walcott , while friends , were never all that close , in fact , whereas Worrell and Weekes were . |
| 30 | Her glance went to Rourke . |