Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] went [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three groups of eleven went out twice in succession , once in the morning , once again in the afternoon . |
| 2 | A certain amount of research into the effects of ageing went on in that period ( and not only in Britain ) but much of it was forgotten when the crisis of ageing and labour shortage seemed less acute in the 1960s — the ‘ age of automation ’ ( Bagrit , 1965 ) , of greater availability of female and immigrant labour and of youth . |
| 3 | Whilst the FADS of old went in for five-man random obscurity and ‘ playing bizarre rhythms as fast as possible ’ , their forthcoming album boasts structure , recurring themes and even the odd polished pop song . |
| 4 | Is it not the case that although the wage increases of British workers have come down the benefits of that have been dissipated , and that due to the recession induced by the Government productivity has gone down although it has gone up in Germany and as a result unit labour costs in the year to the second quarter of 1991 went up by 3 per cent . |
| 5 | The first three teams from each of these went through to the final at East Sussex . |
| 6 | The first of these went back as far as the second half of the sixteenth century . |
| 7 | Khrushchev decided he liked Eisenhower , ‘ a reasonable and modest man ’ , and the much discussed ‘ Spirit of Camp David ’ meant that a lot of smiling went on in public . |
| 8 | Although conceding that manufactures were in many respects deserving of the " high encomiums " bestowed upon them , a pamphleteer of 1782 went on to remark : Scarcely are we fed , lodged , clothed , warmed , without sending multitudes to their grave . |
| 9 | In 1979 , only one young person in eight went on to higher education . |
| 10 | She trained as a missionary , and in 1935 went out to Beirut as treasurer to a mission — the Middle-Eastern Christian Outreach — where , naturally , she also seized the opportunity of teaching PT and games to the student teachers on the campus . |
| 11 | He received little except somewhat vague offers of support but early in 1707 went back to Scotland , this time returning to St Germain with a formal invitation to ‘ James III and VIII ’ to reclaim his kingdom . |
| 12 | Geoffrey Scott was at Rugby School from 1898 to 1902 , and in 1903 went up to New College , Oxford , as an exhibitioner . |
| 13 | One woman in particular went out of her way to help me out . |
| 14 | From Shrewsbury School Hillary in 1937 went up to Trinity College , Oxford , starting to read philosophy , politics , and economics and then moving to modern history . |
| 15 | This was a bar that er went under the bomb like that when they fastened them up , and then when they dropped the bombs this bar was in a clip , like where me finger is , i in a clip so when they released them it dropped out of this clip the bar went as well of course , down that went down went the bomb drop bars with it used to be make them day and night and things like that and er of course there was er Bloxwich Lock and Stamping we used to do odd stamping , odd forgings and things li and er that was other part of the war work . |