Example sentences of "[noun] went [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ewen went as white as paper , and jerked upright in his chair . |
| 2 | And I could n't remember it was forty four and my mind went totally blank and I had to walk out of the exam for over half an hour with a and I could n't remember a thing and went back in . |
| 3 | Her body went as taut as a bowstring , and when she opened her eyes and looked into his face she saw there awestricken astonishment . |
| 4 | Ember seized and aimed it at the control panel beside the door and the room went as dark as it could with the little amber safety-lights glimmering in case of accident . |
| 5 | When Zen reached the gate the security guard was back in his place , but he was so intent on the spluttering exclamations of his walkie-talkie , cradling it to his face and murmuring to it like a mother trying to calm a baby , that Zen 's departure went as unremarked as his arrival . |
| 6 | In the first dark pool under the hollowed bank the steady , rolling eddies went placidly round and round , smooth as cream , their tension dimpling the centre into a slow , minor whirlpool . |
| 7 | On the other hand , his wound went so deep and he was such a vengeful man that he had wanted his wounder dead . |
| 8 | The government 's budgetary deficit went up six- or seven-fold , its ability to back paper money with gold went down by more than 50 per cent , and in 1856 it spent 84 per cent of its income on debt repayments and the armed forces , but the private sector suffered less severely than the Treasury and people who engaged in industry or commerce positively benefited . |
| 9 | Perdita went as green as the guides ' unconsumed lemon squash . |
| 10 | Not at all : King went too far and was out on his ear in an overnight boardroom coup in 1968 . |
| 11 | The slower growing plants were unaffected although the faster growing species went very papery and spindly — and have n't recovered fully after several weeks . |
| 12 | Isherwood went off injured and with ‘ super sub ’ Hurst still removing his tracksuit , Crawley squared the match . |
| 13 | Eric Cantona went as close as anyone when he tried a 40 yard lob which sailed over the goalkeeper 's head only to hit the bar and bounce into the grateful arms of Dmitri Kharine . |
| 14 | The audience went immediately silent as the little tiny diva stood centre-stage and ‘ belted out , in a voice much older than her years : |
| 15 | And in the middle of the slanting span , circling upon a radius of about three yards , and light enough to maintain its place a foot or so below the surface , something pale and oval went monotonously round and round . |
| 16 | With deference to the Divisional Court and without considering whether its decision could be supported on alternative grounds , his Lordship took the view that the Divisional Court 's judgment went too far and did not support the conclusion it reached . |
| 17 | Tess 's face went as white as the snow on the ground . |
| 18 | Kate 's face went as white as the towel around her head . |
| 19 | She broke off inexplicably and her face went as pink as a fuchsia . |