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

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1 Neighbours who were not so well thought of stood and watched at gun-point , while their homes went up in flames .
2 Er you know erm the letter , the reply went back from Dave saying that every you know , possible thing was done to get bilingual staff but at the end of the day you know they could n't come up with the goods .
3 There were several others who used to come and see me in Baldersdale , particularly after the first television programme went out in January 1973 , including some of the nurses .
4 After about five minutes a light went on in back .
5 After the third knocking a light went on in Jessie 's room ; then there was the sound of muffled voices .
6 ( Also , the particle theory of light went out of favor during the nineteenth century ; it seemed that everything could be explained by the wave theory , and according to the wave theory , it was not clear that light would be affected by gravity at all . )
7 Once those scenes had been completed , the carrier went back to North Island to pick up the replica aircraft and the two P–40s , and transported the entire group to Hawaii .
8 Three branches went out on strike in South Tyneside , Walsall , and Hackney .
9 They found plenty of common Church interests and then friendship ; they had conversations , which Ramsey enjoyed enormously , about matters political as well as religious ; Ramsey went over to Garrowby several times for meals or to stay the night and celebrate the sacrament in the morning ; and he conducted Halifax 's funeral at Kirby Underdale in 1959 .
10 and an advert went out on Caroline , Radio Trent .
11 Hewitt-Jones went up to Christ Church , Oxford , where he was a pupil of Bernard Rose ( who later recorded his Magnificat , written for Magdalen ) .
12 The festivities went on for days .
13 Taki went on to flesh out his old friend .
14 Des Walker went off to Italy in the summer then Clough allowed Darren Wassall , another class defender , to drift out of his contract and join Derby .
15 In South Ward my vote went up by 35% , more that the percentage increase of any of the other contenders and that was in spite of a pre-run of general election tactics by Labour .
16 East of Lake Baikal several clans of Evenki Tungus who had formerly herded reindeer went over to horseriding and were partly assimilated to the Buryats , especially in the context of native cossack units .
17 Davidson intercepted a Ju88 ‘ snooper ’ , Lt. Eduard Gessler and his crew of 4U + LK losing their lives when their 2(F)/123 aircraft went down between Lampedusa and Malta .
18 Group turnover went up from £219.1 million to £237.2 million in the 12 months , while earnings per share rose from 23.8p to 25.4p .
19 Witnesses in the car said Williams had not been driving at an excessive speed and had not been distracted in the moments before the car went out of control , said Mr Hardy .
20 ‘ A car went out of control and hit a plate-glass window .
21 It 's the resting place of 4 of the 5 youngsters who died when a speeding car went out of control in Akers Way and hit them as they played at the side of the road .
22 The accident happened when the car went out of control on the Iffley Road in Oxford late last night .
23 It was in September 1991 that 5 young people died when a speeding car went out of control and hit a bench on the side of Akers Way in Swindon .
24 TWO teenagers were taken to hospital after their car went out of control and plunged into a ditch .
25 Years later I learnt that Hodson went down to Sussex and told the headmaster that if he beat either of us again he would have him taken to court .
26 In the morning Dot went off to school and he was n't there .
27 Geoff Addy , from the Old Dun Cow , left his pub last month after his annual rent went up to £76,000 .
28 This monologue went on throughout dinner , after which he insisted that we all went across the road to the village hall where he would show us his slides of the Lake District .
29 The words went around in circles like a hoop being bowled down a corridor — a long corridor of white-washed walls — and with a door at the end of it .
30 In recent weeks his perky figure has turned up twice in the winners enclosure on Northern tracks and when Dance of Words went in for Mick O'Toole last Friday night at Downpatrick this was his seventh winner since his return to Ireland .
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