Example sentences of "[noun] and [noun pl] went [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twiggy was a major influence and women went around trying to look flat as boards . |
| 2 | The payments of rents and services went on as before , only to new masters . |
| 3 | The college grind of meetings and tutorials went on . |
| 4 | For three days the discussions and arguments went on . |
| 5 | So it became a siege of attrition , as the days and nights went by . |
| 6 | More days and weeks went by . |
| 7 | As the weeks and months went by and the war seemed turning in favour of the Allies , I became more and more attached to the Semmens household , even to the point of getting to know some of the family friends such as Mrs Helen Margo and her sister , who owned and managed a shop of Oriental goods on Howe Street . |
| 8 | In these older towns , too , the large houses of the middle class were divided into tenements to house the swarming population , and factories and warehouses went up on their gardens and orchards . |
| 9 | Not long after the lorry driver left , the water became more and more acid and alarms went off . |
| 10 | My own mind seemed full of memories already and I could n't imagine storing away the new ones as years and years went by . |
| 11 | Geoffrey and others went off to play golf , while Moira and I paid a visit to Mr Campbell 's celebrated tweed shop at Beauly . |
| 12 | Wooden motor-cars and trains went round and round , more slowly . |
| 13 | What arguments and manoeuvres went on behind the scenes ? |
| 14 | Wooden horses and kangaroos and chickens went round and round also , a few of them with children on their backs . |
| 15 | As a result , many of AEA 's bright scientists and engineers went out hunting for work . |
| 16 | On another Budget-connected subject the tax on matches and lighters went down while that on beer was going up . |
| 17 | The days of casual sex from encounters in bars and discos went out with the arrival of AIDS , at least as a way of life . |
| 18 | When Rachel , Little Owl of the 1st Spalding Brownies got married , the Rainbows and Brownies went along to give her and her husband their best wishes . |
| 19 | As the ages passed , a few land mammals , the distant ancestors of today 's whales and dolphins went back to the sea , and gradually changed shape as they adapted to an underwater environment . |
| 20 | Men and horses went down like ninepins before them , in a tangle of waving limbs , flailing hooves and broken lances . |
| 21 | During the next ten days negotiations and discussions went on , in some of which I was the messenger for Sir Hubert , particularly in the efforts to get U Saw and U Ba Maw into the Council , successful in the first case but not in the second . |
| 22 | They spotted a fast-moving object on 26 April and messages went out to optical observatories to identify it . |