Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] went [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 As the Saturday evening went on and everyone made use of the food and drinks on site , the Leisure Promotions team set about arranging the well-known Night Event .
2 Rangers ' supporters replied in kind , and so the blood feud went on and on — and continues to this day .
3 In fact , as he probably expected , the Caxton Hall meeting went excellently and Paddington went very badly .
4 Forest heads went down and Snodin and Horne snuffed out Keane and Gemmill .
5 Mr Gruson went upstairs where he said he was threatened by one of the gunmen .
6 And the Turk 's Head stayed shut with padlocks on the doors and the windows boarded up , and Uncle Titch went away and no one seemed to know where he 'd gone to , not even William 's grandad , and no one seemed to know whether he 'd taken his fairground with him or whether it was still there behind the shutters and the padlocked doors in the dark rooms with the bloodstains still on the walls and floors .
7 Mr Jameson went further and called for smoke detectors to be fitted to all homes in the private and publicly-rented sector .
8 After that , Mr Dance went away and I was given some food .
9 The pop tapes went on and on .
10 The dun cock went down as the blue followed through , landing full-flush and kneading the gaffs on the dun 's heart as if he were working a treadle .
11 Registration figures went down when the poll tax was introduced , but — at least nationally — they staged a marked recovery in 1992 , more than compensating for the 1989 drop .
12 yeah , I could n't believe it I mean you go back five years he 'd never done things like that , he erm , missed the most easiest reds and left it right over the pocket and then Stephen Hendry went on and cleared up the whole frame , got a break of over a hundred
13 After his friend 's burial , Mr Utterson went home and into his office .
14 ‘ My husband Rob went outside and found Oliver lying on the floor saying his neck was hurting and he could not move . ’
15 Then the cart man went away and shut the door .
16 On top of everything , the sound system went AWOL and produced a continuous drone throughout the whole of Act I. Which , strangely enough , concentrated my mind wonderfully .
17 Fortunately my 1983 conference speech went well and the row started to calm down .
18 The day-to-day life of an RAF station went on as usual , no matter what was happening in the big world outside .
19 Impulsively Shelley went over and hugged Victoria .
20 In In re Laceward Ltd. [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 133 Slade J. went further and held the expression ‘ proceedings to recover costs ’ in the Solicitors ' Remuneration Order 1972 ( S.I .
21 On the day arrangements went smoothly and we were settling ourselves on the 1220 ex Llangollen when Colin appeared in person , having done his work in the small hours and put our visit ahead of his sleep !
22 Should the strings become entwined then the first protagonist to shout ‘ Strings ! ’ had strike and so the conker bashing went on until one split .
23 Several plain-clothes detectives went further and telephoned a commentator on commercially-owned Ulster Television and asked to be quoted as anonymous detectives in the police division responsible for Rathcoole I who knew that no evidence whatsoever existed against the men arrested .
24 Yellow plastic ducks went round and round , inviting hoops to be thrown over them .
25 Plenty of motor cars went in and out through the Pembroke and Gillingham Gates but it has not been suggested that there was any real night-time disturbance from traffic using the dockyard .
26 After the questions , the woman lodger went away and they took off Dot 's clothes and touched and prodded at her neck , her ears and her throat .
27 Again it see-sawed to and fro throughout the half erm last couple of minutes Banbury went twice when Peter Smith fired in a shot from twenty yards which Ricky Harding in the Almondsbury goal held very comfortably , and erm Dave Bristow again went close .
28 In the Punjab in India , too , the birth rate went up after spermicides were introduced because people abandoned their traditional forms of birth control and then failed to use the unpleasant pessaries .
29 Father Peter went across and gently tapped one .
30 there was this witch doctor and Scooby Doo was — he was standing by the witch doctor and the witch doctor went in and he went — he went chasing him Scooby Doo went in the cupboard with Shaggy and got some clothes on and they were acting on and then the witch doctor pressed the button and they turned on again then and then Scooby was acting and then they just take him and he keeped on switching it until they all came round and the all clothes fell off him .
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