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

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1 The Victorian styles went down very well with the Japanese buyers .
2 It was hot and the demonstration went on much too long , but it gave us all some idea of how caring the teachers were and it was a practical illustration of what the school was trying to do .
3 In Scotia and in Orkney , the work went on as fast as resources would allow , and more speedily than it might once have done because of the cleared roads and the stations of help that now existed through the newborn network of local churches and local leadership .
4 Well , it seemed as if as soon as my back was turned Mrs Carrow went off down there , even though you could n't normally get her to go no further than the garden gate , like I said . ’
5 Scotland went ahead as early as the ninth minute when George Gemmell crashed the ball home after Tom Brown 's cut-back .
6 Nevertheless George Burbridge and Noel Cooper went in once more : nothing was seen of them again .
7 The Carlton meeting on Monday went off quite admirably .
8 and Phil went round there yesterday afternoon .
9 Apart from the personal attacks , its indictment of her political and ideological ideas went back as far as 1978 when she published her novel Await .
10 The Board of Trade meeting went off very well , with both Mr Murray and Mr Bushnell answering questions with exactly the right tact and diplomacy .
11 Egyptian knowledge of Anatolia went back much further : the Greco-Karian city of Pedasa , just north of Halikarnassus , is mentioned in the Gazetteer of Amenhope ( twelfth century BC ) .
12 However , things went on very well at after that .
13 But she would n't be here and , as the taxi went on ever upwards so Fabia tried to get herself in a frame of mind where she could deal cheerfully with Lubor 's banter .
14 Both teams were applauded for the way they kept going forward , and there was only one distasteful moment when Goodman went in far too late on Chivers and was deservedly booked .
15 However , with Jean Parmiter and Ann Langford teaching things were soon under way and the Display Items went down very well .
16 Expansion south towards the nearby colony of Maryland went on fast enough for a pair of surveyors , Mason and Dixon , to have to draw a boundary between the two in 1702 , though this line was not completely accepted for some decades .
17 Well not till Derek went away Up There .
18 The servants went out very quietly .
19 Spearfishing went out long ago , branded as cruelty ( and one of our senior club members can testify not just for that reason .
20 The champagne went down very well on the night the Tobacco Institute of Australia 's appeal substantially failed , but we fear that the hangover from this report may last rather longer .
21 The tide went out as fast as it came in , and it was not unusual for large fish to be stranded in one of the various sized lakes left behind in the sand hollows .
22 Finally , the word went around that far from being either Jewish or Catholic , Mr Kernohan was a high official of the Orange Order .
23 Fleischmann and Pons knew that they had no hopes of completing their work by May and that they could lose the race if Jones went public so soon .
24 Perhaps few of the inhabitants went quite so far as the parents of Fly-Fornication Richardson of Waldron or Small-hope Biggs of Rye in their statements of religious principle , but a dominant number of the eastern rural and urban elite found their religious and political sympathies increasingly divorced from the fumbling attempts of the Stuarts to impose their image of the monarchy .
25 Emigration to the colony went on happily enough in the 1630s .
26 Despite it feeling strangely slowed down , the meal went much too quickly .
27 Both she and Lubor had a glass of beer to go with it , and , having not been hungry , the meal went down much better than Fabia had anticipated .
28 Commenting on the composition of the Edinburgh Trades Council in mid-century , Ian McDougall writes : " local trade unionism was predominantly , though not exclusively , that of the skilled workers or labour aristocracy " In printing , a craft trade par excellence , organization went back as least as far as the eighteenth century in Edinburgh and several other towns .
29 In the end the show went on far longer than we expected and was fairly raunchy .
30 Well , Paul went about as quickly as you can go ; I was certainly humane that time .
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