Example sentences of "[noun sg] went the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skiing a bit too fast … possibly slightly unfit — and ping went the strings of her ligaments |
| 2 | Ping went the lift bell at ground-floor level . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Dom-peromp — stamp — derompompompedom , derom — stamp — perom — stamp went the music as we clattered round the loose floorboards . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Pant pant whine whine went the noise . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Talk of more profit upgradings and lucrative sales of bits and pieces of Ward White Group went the rounds . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The barman took the dive for cover as half the bar-counter went the way of all flesh , only faster . |
| 14 | The back went you know the seat of the chair went the back . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Ten minutes later round went the tip again but this time I was into something bigger . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Cock and click went the super-gun . |
| 19 | The dale rocked with mirth for days as the story went the rounds and will probably be retold for another generation to come . |
| 20 | Shaun — now hobbling around on crutches — added : ‘ My leg went the moment Linford crossed the line . ’ |
| 21 | The 29-year-old Frenchman went the distance with the former European champion Jean-Marc Renard , of Belgium , last year . |
| 22 | Off came the flying jacket and up for sale went the £200,000 aircraft . |
| 23 | Micky Hazard then joined the queue … and his shot went the way of all the others … |
| 24 | The land went the way of so much other land in America — it became a parking lot . |
| 25 | The story about a whole bloodstained cupboard being removed from Belmodes to a police laboratory went the rounds with the speed of light , being especially well received at Teddy Touch 's outfit , marketing street clothes known as Touchline . |
| 26 | Snip , snip , snip went the shears until a head appeared . |
| 27 | Drone drone drone went the engine noise , almost as if it were the sound of the pen against the paper . |