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

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1 The payments of rents and services went on as before , only to new masters .
2 The college grind of meetings and tutorials went on .
3 For three days the discussions and arguments went on .
4 So it became a siege of attrition , as the days and nights went by .
5 More days and weeks went by .
6 As the weeks and months went by and the war seemed turning in favour of the Allies , I became more and more attached to the Semmens household , even to the point of getting to know some of the family friends such as Mrs Helen Margo and her sister , who owned and managed a shop of Oriental goods on Howe Street .
7 In these older towns , too , the large houses of the middle class were divided into tenements to house the swarming population , and factories and warehouses went up on their gardens and orchards .
8 My own mind seemed full of memories already and I could n't imagine storing away the new ones as years and years went by .
9 Wooden motor-cars and trains went round and round , more slowly .
10 What arguments and manoeuvres went on behind the scenes ?
11 Wooden horses and kangaroos and chickens went round and round also , a few of them with children on their backs .
12 As a result , many of AEA 's bright scientists and engineers went out hunting for work .
13 On another Budget-connected subject the tax on matches and lighters went down while that on beer was going up .
14 The days of casual sex from encounters in bars and discos went out with the arrival of AIDS , at least as a way of life .
15 When Rachel , Little Owl of the 1st Spalding Brownies got married , the Rainbows and Brownies went along to give her and her husband their best wishes .
16 As the ages passed , a few land mammals , the distant ancestors of today 's whales and dolphins went back to the sea , and gradually changed shape as they adapted to an underwater environment .
17 Men and horses went down like ninepins before them , in a tangle of waving limbs , flailing hooves and broken lances .
18 During the next ten days negotiations and discussions went on , in some of which I was the messenger for Sir Hubert , particularly in the efforts to get U Saw and U Ba Maw into the Council , successful in the first case but not in the second .
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