Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] go [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christie was to be married at Easter , but Ann planned to go over in late February to help with the wedding preparations and also , to take Sarah and see her settled in before she started her job . |
| 2 | In 1935 , after the Murrells débâcle and the dawning realization that very little which could be described as administration had gone on in Masai District , the Tanganyika government did in fact begin to give some serious thought to the type of man which should be sent there . |
| 3 | A light had gone on in one of the downstairs rooms in Puddephat 's wing . |
| 4 | To visit his people Ramsey had to go up in lifts . |
| 5 | Old Saul was the culprit , Old Saul had gone down in our history and my personal mythology as the Castraitor , but thanks to the little creatures who flew the creek I had him in my power now . |
| 6 | Leaflets calling for this protest action had gone out in the name of the underground organization Mwakenya , and were echoed in a BBC World Service broadcast by the exiled writer Ngugi wa Thiongo , but workers were urged by the official Central Organization of Trade Unions to ignore the " seditious leaflets " , and commentators noted an understandable reluctance to identify openly with Mwakenya by supporting its strike call . |
| 7 | The same refrain kept going round in his head like an infuriating jingle which refuses to be forgotten : the drawing-room at Buller 's Hill House , the kitchen at Jordan 's Farm , the sitting-room in the house on stilts and Laura Passmore 's living-room . |
| 8 | The trite , emotive phrases kept going round in her head like a music-hall ditty . |
| 9 | Almost exactly a year later , a bomb did go off in the basement car park during the evening rush hour , causing many minor casualties , and about £350m in damage , about ten per cent of which was ultimately reinsured in the London market . |
| 10 | It felt as though a grenade had gone off in my head . |
| 11 | In real terms the average incomes of lone parents have fallen — if their incomes had gone up in line with the Retail Price Index then they would have been about £12 per week higher in 1989 . |
| 12 | er , if the , if the , er service charge costs had gone up in the meantime , obviously after you reached the end of the first accounting period you have some accounts to go on and you have a much better idea of what the costs are actually going to be |
| 13 | Shiona felt as though a bomb had gone off in her face . |
| 14 | Lights began to go on in the dark houses , and I relished my melancholy to the last drop . |
| 15 | Secondly , the bird could copy what another more experienced bird had done ; the process of selecting the actions best adapted to the environment had gone on in previous generations and been transmitted socially . |
| 16 | Then I told him that my friends had gone off in the wrong direction and that I was willing to pay the owner of the moped for taking a message to them . |
| 17 | But that calculation had gone up in smoke with the original letter , and since then she must have bitterly regretted her rashness . |
| 18 | Towards the end of field-work , after a neighbourhood policeman had been murdered in another area , which up until then had been considered ‘ soft ’ , with no threat from terrorists , Easton 's neighbourhood men began going out in threes , with two men providing cover , so that only a third of beat time was devoted to each neighbourhood patch . |
| 19 | So Harris decided to go out in style . |
| 20 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 21 | By Thursday no Iraqi missile had fallen on Turkish soil , but the debris of a misfired Patriot anti-missile missile had , and air-raid sirens had gone off in Adana . |
| 22 | Before we reached the BUPA hospital in Paddington , I felt I knew every temperature change Salome had gone through in the past five days , what her grandmother — phoning twice daily from Jamaica — thought about life , the universe and young people driving around in fast cars , and how difficult Frank had found going to the launderette . |
| 23 | If not I suggest it should be and , er , therefore if unfortunately the profits of the company did go down in the foreseeable future the salaries of yourself and your directors would be reduced . |
| 24 | Before she could throw the water into the wastepaper basket , the reports had gone up in smoke . |
| 25 | When , in his thirties , he took driving lessons and passed his test Dorothy refused to go out in the car with him : ‘ I intend to live to a ripe old age , thank you very much . ’ |