Example sentences of "[noun pl] went [adv] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A niece of the former Labour minister Douglas Jay and first cousin of Peter Jay , the former British ambassador in Washington who is now the BBC 's economics editor , her ratings went up in certain quarters when she once said of Mrs Thatcher : ‘ She is not the sort of person one would invite to dinner . ’ |
| 2 | The village started half-alive about her , lights went on in some windows , then off again as the daylight strengthened . |
| 3 | Muggers went around in threes when she was out . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At 03.50 on the first day of the attack , 12 infantry divisions went forward in heavy mist . |
| 6 | But the Soviet invaders went home in 1989 , and the communist government they left behind fell in 1992 . |