Example sentences of "[conj] went [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was quite coincidental that June , by her search for a new life in California , drew him towards what would be the hub of the rest of his life and it was touch and go whether he stayed or went back to Neptune . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd far rather you waited until it 's light , or went down for Bob . ’ |
| 3 | Being around Notting Hill meant we got involved in the Free School gigs , big social events that went round by word of mouth . ’ |
| 4 | I could partly understand Sally 's comments because I heard at second hand from Jack Mason about the bickering that went on between manufacturers and the players ' agents about contracts . |
| 5 | Would it not be right for the Secretary of State to come to the House to say what steps are being taken to try to ensure that the sort of dishonesty and crookery that went on at MGN is not being repeated elsewhere ? |
| 6 | An umpire told me : ‘ What 's happened to Don was no reflection on his unswerving attempt to get the truth told over everything that went on at Lord 's . |
| 7 | Now the story of Britain 's biggest-ever robbery — and the massive money laundering operation that went on for months afterwards — will be told tomorrow night in ITV 's £2 million drama Fool 's Gold ( 9.05pm ) . |
| 8 | On those walks , when Stephen was much younger , his father used to tell him stories about a family of moles he 'd invented , elaborate adventures that went on for miles . |
| 9 | For the first time , we had a row that went on for days . |
| 10 | As Table 3.5 shows , the proportion of West Indian children that passed one or more A levels was at least six times lower than that of other children , while the proportion that went on to university was three times lower . |
| 11 | Ordyn-Nashchokin , one of the more forward-looking Russian statesmen of the seventeenth century , objected in the 1660s to any permanent foreign diplomatic representation in the country because it would " bring harm to the Muscovite state and embroil it with other nations " and because foreign diplomats would " find out everything that went on in Moscow and tell it abroad " . |
| 12 | THE memories of the love and caring that went on in Lourdes is something I shall always treasure . |
| 13 | We do n't of course see the kind of thing that went on in Germany under Hitler , but you feel a disaster is waiting , another disaster of some kind is waiting . |
| 14 | Another reason why the country needs to be saved from a Labour Government is that it is bad enough to have the type of nonsense that went on in Luigi 's restaurant happening when the Labour party is in opposition , but it would be especially ridiculous if it happened with the Labour party in government . |
| 15 | ( The argument that went on in Tanzania at this time is referred to in some detail in the next chapter . ) |
| 16 | She dimly perceived the terrible conflict that went on in Johnny 's mind between the dark side of his nature and the knowledge of how he should behave — of the actions expected of him because , as he would have put it , he was a Gentleman . |
| 17 | ‘ Basically , the thing that went down between Jon and me was more of a band kind of thing than anything really personal . |
| 18 | Yes it 's it 's it was one of the er advertisements or programmes that went out on radio er again this is why I 've been trying to get over to people the sad things that have to happen to animals . |
| 19 | Not as I remember no funnily enough but they used to have people who , who went out to work at different airports after the planes had gone out they used to have gangs that went out to Perton and er we used to draw equipment from er the maintenance un RAF maintenance unit at Stafford things used to come from there . |
| 20 | With three minutes to go , Bergsson was warming up and held on to a ball that went out of play . |
| 21 | Installed in a town house off the Rue St Honoré and accompanied everywhere in his armoured Mercedes by bodyguards armed with automatic weapons , he endeared himself to French society by throwing the kind of party that went out of style with Caligula while continuing to act as front man for the Syrian heroin cartel that underwrote his brother 's fanatical Alawist regime in Damascus . |
| 22 | And er that went out of fashion because of the two reasons and the most was because it 's it was it would compact in their stomachs , they could n't lift it up again . |
| 23 | They even reported a bonfire that went out of control in the local rag ! ’ |
| 24 | Four women were injured when they were hit by a car that went out of control . |
| 25 | Sir Gregory had a painful discussion with his wife over how they should react to Pascoe 's snub , in which Lady Roscarrock gave vent to her outrage saying that they had every right to keep both Tristram and Jennifer in custody indefinitely ; but Sir Gregory wanted the whole business settled and finished with , so after a lengthy wrangle he swallowed the family pride and went over to Hill House . |
| 26 | We refuelled and went on to Shaibah and spent the night . |
| 27 | He was a King 's scholar at Eton College ( 1866–71 ) and went on to King 's College , Cambridge , where he was a Browne 's medallist ( Greek epigrams ) in 1874 and gained a first in the classical tripos in 1875 . |
| 28 | Is he aware that , in the case of telecoms , the price control formula started at retail prices index minus 3 and went on to RPI minus 4.5 and only recently has been increased to RPI minus 6.25 ? |
| 29 | And tt Jan was er was er wondering during last year and went on to hormone replacement therapy because she was and the doctor was a bit concerned about possible osteoporosis which is erm brittle bone |
| 30 | He attended Winchester College , and went on to St John 's College , Oxford . |