Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] go [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then our small boat began to go down and we found ourselves in the water . |
| 2 | Teenagers began to go there and drive their buggies round the docklands , round and round and round . |
| 3 | At lunchtime the aid started going off and I suddenly realised that I was n't going to get through the afternoon — ’ |
| 4 | In paintings , particularly well represented this year , the FFr1 million mark remained a barrier beyond which clients chose to go home and think . |
| 5 | I was sticky with mud , and my mind kept going over and over the extraordinary events of the afternoon and evening . |
| 6 | By 1819 , if Shelley is to be taken as a reliable guide , Wordsworth 's stock had gone down and down : ‘ He was at first sublime , pathetic , impressive , profound ; then dull ; then prosy and dull ; and now dull — oh so very dull ! it is an ultra-legitimate dulness ’ ( Dedication to Peter Bell the Third ) . |
| 7 | The sweat that had begun in anticipation of what she might encounter in the street now ran in fear of her mother 's rage ; Nunzia 's eyes had gone hard and wrinkled like black olive pips when Rosa had produced the plover , and she had clucked impatiently with her tongue when Rosa lied and said her grandfather had shot it and presented it to her . |
| 8 | When he emerged , Dr Shakhar seemed to think that the talk had gone well and then asked for another audience . |
| 9 | The night was drawing in and the kids had gone home and the tunnel under the embankment was deep in shadow . |
| 10 | The interview had gone well and , despite the fact that there had been three other candidates , the job was hers . |
| 11 | And just as the shepherd had to go out and look for it , and search for it . |
| 12 | ‘ The wedding had gone beautifully but our honeymoon was ruined . |
| 13 | The wind had gone down but the night had turned chilly and she shivered as she hurried towards the hospital gates , which were brightly picked out , as was everything else , by the moonlight . |
| 14 | The foal was lying down again and looking sleepy , and Firelight was dozing over it perfectly contented , and Nails decided to go down and tell Nutty what had happened . |
| 15 | With heartfelt thanks he ran to the stable and , before his parents had gone more than a few yards , he had galloped past them towards his home . |
| 16 | When the series of sessions with the advisory teacher came to an end , Betty said that she thought that the work had gone well and that the children had enjoyed it , although she had noticed that the response of the ‘ difficult ’ children , whom she also described as ‘ poorly motivated ’ , was much the same as usual . |
| 17 | It was their talk on the cliff-top as the sun had gone down that had changed it all . |
| 18 | The sun had gone in and everywhere seemed drab and grey . |
| 19 | The sun had gone now and , once on dry land , I began to walk to the stockade . |
| 20 | Miss Adeane agreed that she would , hurrying back to St Jude 's with a shout of triumph in her heart , to find that Odette and Liam had gone out and that Daniel Carey was waiting for her . |
| 21 | Since being in Carstairs she had seen the baby twice and the visits had gone well and social workers hoped to continue this . |
| 22 | By the time it was finished , the workings had gone lower than the levels it was meant to drain . |
| 23 | It was after nine-thirty when we finished , because I remember that Mrs Reynolds had gone home and I washed up the cups myself . ’ |
| 24 | Indeed , they boasted proudly that retail electricity prices had risen more slowly than the retail price index in general : although their own tariffs had risen faster , average consumption had gone up and the extra kWh had been sold at the lower incremental charges of two-part or block tariffs , thus bringing the average domestic price in their first ten years down by a fifth in real terms . |
| 25 | ‘ There was no youth policy here then so Graeme had to go out and buy players . |
| 26 | They also " took up the case of Archibald McGreggor , Beadle , of whom an account of a fall from a horse while attending a funeral , a surmise had gone abroad that he was in a state of intoxication " but they found that " nothing could be made a ground of process against him . " |
| 27 | Karen had to go back because that evening there was a Union meeting at the factory and after that , her meeting with Pete and the journalist from the New York Times . |
| 28 | The hill seemed to go on and on . |
| 29 | The Stranglers started going downhill when they took to releasing piss-poor cover versions as singles . |
| 30 | Bill Murray spent £50,000 on setting up his restaurant at Telegraph Hill , near Exeter , Devon , two years ago but said the business started to go downhill when he handed it over to a manager to run . |