Example sentences of "[noun] went [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old car went well at the start of the season , but attention to detail was wanting . |
| 2 | Talk ought to go on , even if murder went on at the same time ; at the sideboard Twomey turned his back before he smiled . |
| 3 | In fact , they were so bad in the one matinee performance in which they were tried out , that the original speeches were reinstated by the time the curtain went up at the Globe Theatre that evening . |
| 4 | Mr Franklin went there at the end of the 1970s , after the collapse of Keyser Ullman , the merchant bank where he was a director that was rescued by the Bank of England . |
| 5 | For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world . |
| 6 | She had talked of a sex scene when she was on Wogan , but he assumed it would be something more romantic — a magnolia bud of a tit peeping from beneath bed linen as she held out her arms to her lover and the lights went down at the end of the play . |
| 7 | I would usually be at the foot of the platform stairs as Billy went on at the start . |
| 8 | On the intellectual front , this unification went on at the same time that in the social history of science specialization was the order of the day . |
| 9 | He was never remotely stumped when an item went down at the last moment and the presenter was left with a minute to fill . |
| 10 | Despite the destruction , church services went ahead at the weekend in five churches in Armagh as workmen continued to clear up after the IRA bomb attack on the courthouse . |
| 11 | First the social worker went in at the old man 's request , and tried to persuade the daughter and son-in-law to leave . |