Example sentences of "[noun sg] went [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this strange institution we did not even know all the people who worked in the same room as ourselves , as the action went on twenty-four hours a day , and we were on duty on varying shifts . |
| 2 | Bristol 's new fly-half Andy May missed five penalties as his side went down 16-6 to Northampton . |
| 3 | Woodhill Echo went on last year to win a £1,000 open at Brough Park before finishing third in the Scottish Derby . |
| 4 | The roof went on first . |
| 5 | But adjustment went on all the same because it was the only way of making yourself tolerate a condition which you loathed . |
| 6 | The basis of the privilege on grounds of law went back many years . |
| 7 | The percentage went up last year , but the amount of the levy is still set to fall over the 1990s . |
| 8 | So when the sun went down that night , and indeed . |
| 9 | The curtain went up last night on The Little Shop of Horrors . |
| 10 | Today 's shares : Abbey National down four to two two three point five , British Aerospace up four to five hundred and thirty nine , British Airways up two at a hundred and thirty nine , British Gas down five to two one eight , British Telecom went down four point five , ending the day at two hundred and seventy point five , the Goodhead Publishing Group went down two to fifty six , Metalbox were up thirty seven to one one two five , Morland Brewers down three at two six five , Oxford Instruments remained at two thirty , while Thames Water stayed at two hundred and twenty eight and T S B were up nought point five at a hundred and thirty eight . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps that 's why our water went off this morning , ’ Peggy mused . |
| 12 | Ireland 's World bronze medallist went down 8–7 in a titanic battle with Russia 's Albert Pekov in their first round clash . |
| 13 | This meant that an older social critique , whose pedigree went back hundreds of years , was expanded to take account of juvenile employment in such a manner as to make the critique more subtle , at least in the sense that some reformers began to suggest that the combination of juvenile psychology , conditions of labour and industrial training was influential far beyond the workplace and on a scale previously unrecognized . |
| 14 | Pre-tax revenue rose by 13.8 per cent to £14.2 million , while earnings per share went up 12.8 per cent to 1.59p , from 1.41p . |
| 15 | Our death rate went down seventy-five per cent in one week ! |
| 16 | Apparently , when the polis went back this morning he found the house empty , bare , absolutely stripped , and Slim Boswell and the lasses gone , and every stick of furniture just vanished , the lot . |
| 17 | By that I meant that the Treasury had cleared the papers for Cabinet and that agreement on the policy went back several months . |
| 18 | People were dashing along the roads in their night attire having just thrown on coats , my father went off first , next my mother and my Aunt Gertrude who lived with us . |
| 19 | Then I was working and my sister Mary started work and my father went out one night and he came back knocked the door and he was drunk as per usual . |
| 20 | The government 's budgetary deficit went up six- or seven-fold , its ability to back paper money with gold went down by more than 50 per cent , and in 1856 it spent 84 per cent of its income on debt repayments and the armed forces , but the private sector suffered less severely than the Treasury and people who engaged in industry or commerce positively benefited . |
| 21 | Amongst the major shares , Abbey National are down 1 at 212 , and as I 've just mentioned , British Aerospace went down 12 to 541 , British Airways were down 2 at 158 , British Gas were down 2 at 217 , British Steel down 2 at 119 , British Telecom down 9 at 276 , Rolls Royce down 5 to 175 and T S B down 2 at 119 . |
| 22 | So his foot went down two steps , and sure enough down came the wardrobe onto his toe and did n't do any damage and then just bounced to the next step down . |
| 23 | The door of the back kitchen went down two steps and then there was a chimney corner with shaped stonework , which I think would have had a wooden seat long ago . |
| 24 | This story went over big with the seven and five-year olds in my party . |
| 25 | So erm mum went down one day and he was there and she said he were with my sister 's boy , they were both sleeping rough . |
| 26 | In North-East Division went down 24–10 their tries coming from scrum half Gary Spence and Ron Stock , full back Roy Myers adding a conversion . |
| 27 | Amongst the major shares , Abbey National were up 5 to 184 ; British Aerospace down 6 at 518 ; British Airways down 2 at 195 ; B P up 1 to 305 ; British Gas went up 4 to 191 ; British steel were up 2 at 138 ; British Telecom , they were up 5 to 250 ; Rolls Royce , up 2 to 200 and T S B they were up 1 at 126 . |
| 28 | Today 's share prices : Abbey National down two at two two eight , British Aerospace down twenty two at five three seven , British Airways down three at a hundred and forty one , British Gas went down four point five at two two seven point five , British Telecom down six point five at two hundred and eighty four , Goodhead Publishing Group stayed at sixty , Metalbox down fifty to one O O seven five , Morland Brewers unchanged at two hundred and seventy , Oxford Instruments went down four to two three three , Thames Water was down five at two two nine and the Trustee Savings Bank went down one to a hundred and thirty seven . |
| 29 | British Gas went down two point five to two one three . |
| 30 | Today 's shares : Abbey National down one at two two seven point five , British Aerospace up six at five four five , British Airways unchanged at a hundred and thirty seven , British Gas went down two point five to two two three , while British Telecom went down one to two seven five , the Goodhead Publishing Group stayed at fifty eight , Metalbox unchanged at one O eight eight , Morland Brewers went down two to two hundred and sixty eight , but Oxford Instruments stayed at two hundred and thirty , Thames Water down four at two two eight , Trustee Savings Bank up two point five at a hundred and thirty seven point five , and today 's major movers , Reuters up twenty four at seven hundred and thirteen , and Bass up ten at one O four six . |