Example sentences of "[noun] went [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOLLOWING THE FIRST day of The Subject Was Roses rehearsals , Dustin went over to a girlfriend 's apartment for dinner brimming with enthusiasm and confidence . |
| 2 | The pair tied the knot in July , and the last-minute wedding went off to a tee … |
| 3 | ‘ I saw Liza Carrow , ’ Eleanor went on in a matter-of-fact way . |
| 4 | And I believed that this world of darkness and changing images went on without a break , as unceasingly as the other less real one outside , wherever outside was , and by some unlikely philanthropic gesture of the city corporation was allowed to co-exist and be connected by the little dark doors with dark portholes . |
| 5 | Dear Mr. Lum — who had been admitted to the Weavers ' Company himself in 1787 — had agreed to recommend his friend William Charles Titford , and the deal went through as a freedom by redemption — that is , by virtue of payment — rather than by apprenticeship or patrimony . |
| 6 | During the United Nations International Women 's Year in 1975 , the Salvadorean government spent more time and much more money on ensuring that the Miss Universe beauty contest went off without a hitch , than on debating the issues of discrimination against women . |
| 7 | Schools went in for a lot of physical education , ‘ drill ’ , which involved jumping about in a drafty hall with your skirt tucked into your knickers if you were female . |
| 8 | But while the search went on for a suitable donor , Evelyn and Peter Walker kept a constant vigil by their ten-year-old daughter 's hospital bedside . |
| 9 | Her words went in like a knife . |
| 10 | Loretta 's mind went off at a tangent . |
| 11 | Oh , I can read the signs as well as anyone , ’ Dora went on in a sudden surge of indignation as Melissa 's eyebrows lifted . |
| 12 | She 'd expected a steady upward climb , but suddenly the tunnel dipped and steps went down beside a white race of water . |
| 13 | So the merger boom went on for a while , still fuelled by this false belief . |
| 14 | It was the highest total and the biggest increase since March 1991 , when shoppers went out on a spending spree to beat the rise in value-added tax rates . |
| 15 | Then , in Madras , England went in with a more balanced attack of three seamers and three spinners , including Graeme Hick . |
| 16 | The last dance went on for a long time . |
| 17 | Rovers were forced into a pre-match reshuffle as Neil McNab went down with a stomach bug . |
| 18 | Kim Barnes went along for a preview . |
| 19 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
| 20 | One such occasion was Labor Day 1949 , when my parents went off on a holiday barbecue or picnic and deposited the three oldest toys — David [ eight ] , Johnny [ six ] and Alvin [ four ] — with a teenage black babysitter named Earl at the Ritz to see Li'l Abner [ the early black and white version , with Buster Keaton in a small part ] and I Married a Witch . |
| 21 | It was his grandmother he spent his fifth birthday with and that same year his parents went off on a tour of the Commonwealth , which took them away from him for six long months . |
| 22 | The saleswoman went over to a rack of ankle-length cottons in different colours . |
| 23 | ‘ About 2 o'clock , when within about 4 miles of Green Island , for which we were tacking , Mr. Gould went off in a boat with the hope of reaching it before us , and of finding some penguin 's eggs which he is much in want off [ sic ] . |
| 24 | The bow went off with a terrible noise , like bones breaking . |
| 25 | M. Dupont went on in a calm , deliberate voice : ‘ My only question concerning Mr Lewis is this . |
| 26 | This sort of banter went on for a while . |
| 27 | " Stephen went off with a carrier-bag , dear . " |
| 28 | His father , however , preferred that Farrar went in for a professional career , and Farrar was articled to a firm of architects and surveyors in Northampton , becoming a Fellow of the Geographical Society . |
| 29 | The Boozebuster went off without a hitch . |
| 30 | Swindon 's right-back Hockaday went off with a fractured cheekbone just before half-time . |