Example sentences of "[noun pl] went [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BMA called a press conference on the emigration of doctors an hour beforehand , half the journalists went off to that , and the fierce women sent along by the pressure groups whom I had invited to liven up the occasion terrorised the few press men who remained into almost complete silence . |
| 2 | Though modern readers might wish to repay Mr Ruskin 's ‘ hard work ’ recorded in a 1854 entry , with hard labour , the practice of dismembering books went on for many centuries . |
| 3 | Days went by like this , Sunday and Monday and Tuesday . |
| 4 | The village started half-alive about her , lights went on in some windows , then off again as the daylight strengthened . |
| 5 | It was an emphatic display by Rangers on a night when the lights went out for all English interest in Europe . |
| 6 | There were no windows he could look in ; whatever horrors went on within those wooden walls were kept well secluded from prying eyes . |
| 7 | Groups went in for all kinds of sponsored walks , knit-ins , beard-shavings , and even silence . |
| 8 | His old friend , the abbot of St Peter 's Abbey in Salzburg , noted that Leopold had been a man of ‘ much wit and wisdom ’ , whose talents went far beyond those of music alone , yet he had ‘ had the misfortune always to be persecuted ’ and was consequently held in less esteem in Salzburg than elsewhere in Europe . |
| 9 | All they broke all the windows went up to all the shops do n't you remember ? |
| 10 | The girls went across to these and looked out . |
| 11 | The figure shows that the rates of caesarean sections , epidural anaesthesia , and forceps and vacuum extractions went down in some maternity units but increased in most of them . |
| 12 | A major consequence was that the development of the extremely expensive ‘ Chevaline ’ warheads went ahead despite all the economic difficulties of the period , with no Cabinet discussion at the time . |
| 13 | The men went methodically through these . |
| 14 | Many evacuees went home during that first winter , but when the blitz began , there was another exodus from London . |
| 15 | Women went out of that lab looking twenty years younger . |
| 16 | Family Day at OBEX was the highlight of the year , and preparations went on for several weeks in advance . |
| 17 | I had said that I would find it easier on my own and she had been hurt , for normal mothers and daughters went together on this expedition , lunching in a department store and discussing the newly acquired contents of the carrier bags that lay at their feet . |