Example sentences of "[noun] went [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A niece of the former Labour minister Douglas Jay and first cousin of Peter Jay , the former British ambassador in Washington who is now the BBC 's economics editor , her ratings went up in certain quarters when she once said of Mrs Thatcher : ‘ She is not the sort of person one would invite to dinner . ’ |
| 2 | Fighting went on in New France for another twelve months , but after the fall of Quebec this was more a matter of moving forces over long distances than of confronting threats that the French might retrieve their position . |
| 3 | As the throng of workers laughed and joked , tucking into the vast amount of food laid out before them , Annie 's mind went back to other Mell Suppers and not for the first time , she reflected on how her family had dwindled . |
| 4 | No fool , Berenson went in for finding ‘ Isabellas ’ ; Mrs Gardner fancied herself as America 's answer to Isabella d'Este , the great Renaissance art collector . |
| 5 | He and Eva went out on long walks together , or to the cinema at the ICA to see Scorsese films and exhibitions of dirty nappies . |
| 6 | The youth quarter finals followed and St Albans went through after extra time against Tynemouth , along with Viking who beat Humberside 4–0 . |
| 7 | However , Crues went back in front thanks to that Burrows/Hunter combination . |
| 8 | Every day the Prince and Princess went off on official business , to look at churches , visit hospitals and meet people , and the minute they were back on board the royal yacht , Charles would quickly change into some comfortable clothes and sit on deck with his sketchbook and teacher , until the very last minute before the bell for dinner . |
| 9 | After the 1987 election , the battle went on with new intensity . |
| 10 | Rainey went back on top Down Under . |
| 11 | As Heath went down to electoral defeat in February 1974 , the yellowing of the 1970 Reorganisation of Central Government White Paper was the last thing on people 's mind . |
| 12 | The news media learned of the arrests next morning and over a number of days outraged protests went up from loyalist spokesmen , including leaders of loyalist political parties and Andrew Beattie 's colleagues on the Constitutional Stoppage Central Co-ordinating Committee . |
| 13 | His B–17 went down after continual attacks , the fighters still firing into him as he continued to fall , until the aircraft suddenly exploded . |
| 14 | This rethinking went on in episcopal households and monasteries as well as in some urban schools which survived in some areas well into the sixth century . |
| 15 | The meeting went on till late in the evening and many found peace with God . |
| 16 | The one on the right went only to sealed-off sections of corridor on each floor , where any interlopers who had managed to get that far would be fobbed off with further charades designed to conceal the true function of the building . |
| 17 | Griffiths went down in Welsh history as the first person to be sent off for kicking one of his own players . |
| 18 | If we ask whether there were ancient documents which showed that the primacy went back to authoritative sources , the answer ( as I shall argue later ) is that there were documents which gave general support to the claim , sufficient to authenticate the living tradition of the community , but insufficient for use in a court of law . |
| 19 | Having got Travis sitting down again , Sebastian mixed him a stiff drink , and the evening went generally from bad to worse , with Sebastian the only one with any appetite for the meal Leith had cooked . |
| 20 | They spotted a fast-moving object on 26 April and messages went out to optical observatories to identify it . |
| 21 | The unexpected element in the result , however , was that second place went not to Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki but to Stanislaw Tyminski , an emigré businessman who had no previous political experience and was virtually unknown until the last weeks of the campaign . |
| 22 | As it got closer , its lights went up to full beam . |
| 23 | ‘ After the collisions the plates were able to adjust each time — fairly quickly it seems — and things went back to normal until something else came crashing in . ’ |
| 24 | Town should have been two or three up … but Ipswich went back in front thanks to a John Wark penalty justice was done near the end when Town won themselves a penalty … and what do you reckon was going through Paul Bodin 's mind … the man who missed the penalty that could have given wales a world cup place was on the spot again … |
| 25 | Joyce and his wife went out into sunlit streets of Berlin on that Sunday afternoon to see what further news they could gather . |
| 26 | It is up to you , Mr. Deputy Speaker , to decide whether hon. Members are in order , but I must say that the hon. Gentleman went on at considerable length about matters some of which seemed to stray interestingly from the subject of the amendment . |
| 27 | Mollified , if not entirely convinced , Vincent went back to Mauve and tried hard to knuckle down . |
| 28 | Walsh did not appear , but Cooper and Pilger went in as non-executive members of the Board . |
| 29 | Hundreds of workers have been sacked , the convener and deputy convener victimized , while millions of pounds went out to private contractors . |
| 30 | Despite being buoyed by the attendance of a West German delegation mandated to support the establishment of a supranational federal authority , the federalist argument went down to decisive defeat . |