Example sentences of "went [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His drive went low up the right side of the fairway and faded impotently into the heather . |
| 2 | She went low , slid on her belly , then was up , jumping high , higher than she had ever leaped before , her body curled into a tight ball . |
| 3 | Shivers crawled over her heated skin , her palms went clammy , and the blood drummed in her ears deafeningly . |
| 4 | So I went sorry , sorry , and he went , it 's alright , and he went in , oh , thanks for that , thanks very much . |
| 5 | In effect the equivalent of a million pounds-worth of fees went unused . |
| 6 | Another attempt at Reconciliation could n't be planned overnight , and if the next mid-summer went unused , the Imajica would pass another two centuries divided . |
| 7 | Was it you who went bloody hell ? |
| 8 | And Tish went bloody hell ! |
| 9 | Went bloody hell ! |
| 10 | As generations went by , some strategies became scarcer and eventually went extinct . |
| 11 | Long-term cultures of unicellular organisms in small , asexual populations have shown a steady decline in the rate of division , and cultures sometimes went extinct , no matter how carefully they were kept . |
| 12 | When , rather later , for reasons that are not understood and are the subject of much profitable speculation , the dinosaurs ( with the exception of the group of dinosaurs that we now call birds ) went extinct , they went extinct all over the world . |
| 13 | When , rather later , for reasons that are not understood and are the subject of much profitable speculation , the dinosaurs ( with the exception of the group of dinosaurs that we now call birds ) went extinct , they went extinct all over the world . |
| 14 | All that means is that the original form was present in the rest of the Rift Valley during this period , never went extinct , and has now come into the lake again and has either made extinct , or in some other way swamped out the local form . |
| 15 | He was at the garden party on Guy Fawkes Night in 1938 when the honourable member for Stockton , Harold Macmillan , burnt Chamberlain in effigy , and he earned the thanks of Bob Boothby later the same evening when he happened upon him making love to Macmillan 's wife against a turkey-oak tree — and went deaf and blind . |
| 16 | SCOTT Garthwaite 's mum Susan thought he would never hear again when he went deaf at the age of two . |
| 17 | it went in me ear , I went deaf before it went away |
| 18 | And if he went protectionist while the Government havered , his attraction for the dissident Conservatives would become still stronger . |
| 19 | As I was typing this on the computer ( my VDU is a television set ) , the screen went odd with flashing lines and all the words missing . |
| 20 | This one went asleep at eleven so I thought oh well I 'm O K till fiveish , maybe |
| 21 | But they went asleep after anyway . |
| 22 | ‘ The line just went solid with the 5 ob 13 oz fish see-sawing around a snag and I was sure the line would go . |
| 23 | He went fiery red , hands clenched at his sides . |
| 24 | For they knew that they could , in an instant , pounce upon their debtors and obtain payment for themselves even if all other demands went unsatisfied . |
| 25 | Hampers were laid on for picnics , parcels of treats supplied for midnight romps in Swiss Alpine dorms , and no child 's insatiable hunger went unsatisfied . |
| 26 | ‘ But it became obvious that we were n't posing enough of a threat to get them through the bottle neck and as a result they dived and went hell-for-leather back into Scapa Flow . |
| 27 | Chupp says the correlation of events is important because it lets ground-based observers know what to look for ; it is possible that earlier observations of solar neutrons went unrecognised . |
| 28 | For this is not an isolated incidence of confusion , though rarely are such errors played out in public view with such global excitement ; similar things have happened before and some of the signs were already known but went unrecognised . |
| 29 | Firstly , rural patients had more retinopathy or their retinopathy went unrecognised more often . |
| 30 | There followed a declaration of independence from the BRA which went unrecognised by other countries , and the imposition of a tight blockade of the island by the PNG government . |