Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] went [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rangers ' supporters replied in kind , and so the blood feud went on and on — and continues to this day . |
| 2 | In fact , as he probably expected , the Caxton Hall meeting went excellently and Paddington went very badly . |
| 3 | Forest heads went down and Snodin and Horne snuffed out Keane and Gemmill . |
| 4 | The pop tapes went on and on . |
| 5 | The dun cock went down as the blue followed through , landing full-flush and kneading the gaffs on the dun 's heart as if he were working a treadle . |
| 6 | Registration figures went down when the poll tax was introduced , but — at least nationally — they staged a marked recovery in 1992 , more than compensating for the 1989 drop . |
| 7 | ‘ My husband Rob went outside and found Oliver lying on the floor saying his neck was hurting and he could not move . ’ |
| 8 | Then the cart man went away and shut the door . |
| 9 | On top of everything , the sound system went AWOL and produced a continuous drone throughout the whole of Act I. Which , strangely enough , concentrated my mind wonderfully . |
| 10 | Fortunately my 1983 conference speech went well and the row started to calm down . |
| 11 | On the day arrangements went smoothly and we were settling ourselves on the 1220 ex Llangollen when Colin appeared in person , having done his work in the small hours and put our visit ahead of his sleep ! |
| 12 | Should the strings become entwined then the first protagonist to shout ‘ Strings ! ’ had strike and so the conker bashing went on until one split . |
| 13 | Yellow plastic ducks went round and round , inviting hoops to be thrown over them . |
| 14 | Plenty of motor cars went in and out through the Pembroke and Gillingham Gates but it has not been suggested that there was any real night-time disturbance from traffic using the dockyard . |
| 15 | After the questions , the woman lodger went away and they took off Dot 's clothes and touched and prodded at her neck , her ears and her throat . |
| 16 | In the Punjab in India , too , the birth rate went up after spermicides were introduced because people abandoned their traditional forms of birth control and then failed to use the unpleasant pessaries . |
| 17 | there was this witch doctor and Scooby Doo was — he was standing by the witch doctor and the witch doctor went in and he went — he went chasing him Scooby Doo went in the cupboard with Shaggy and got some clothes on and they were acting on and then the witch doctor pressed the button and they turned on again then and then Scooby was acting and then they just take him and he keeped on switching it until they all came round and the all clothes fell off him . |
| 18 | Not in the sense that the County Council went out and did a measured assessment which said , Right this particular district can accommodate X thousand dwellings in areas which are n't greenbelt or which are greenbelt or individual factors . |
| 19 | Which would have been very attractive , unobtrusive and none of us would have been against it , and when they came to put in the application to convert it , making it a meter wider and turn that into an extra bedroom or whatever was , we said that there was no parking , and we said what would happen and East Devon went ahead and approved that , and exactly in everything we 've said which was recorded in this council |
| 20 | The 1970s witnessed a number of developments of this sort and during the days when OPEC was still negotiating with the companies over prices , a device was contrived whereby if the dollar went down , the oil price went up and vice versa . |
| 21 | And the leading man of the railway union went out and bought all the shares he could get his hands on and off the railway company . |
| 22 | Fifteen minutes later , the breathing alarm went off and the staff nurse rushed into the room to find Allitt behaving in an ‘ extraordinary way ’ , said Mr Goldring . |
| 23 | I did the business with my camera , now there was plenty of light with the barn doors open , and was in the process of replacing the tarpaulin when the alarm bells went off and scared the hell out of me for the second time in five minutes . |
| 24 | Cost cutting went on and as I say will continue in ninety three and ninety four . |
| 25 | At appointed hours , Mandy informed her , a golf cart went up and collected luggage from the covered box in the car park , and also delivered infirm guests up the long hill if they so requested . |
| 26 | In an unusual move , the production team went out and about asking questions before they committed anything to camera . |
| 27 | The house lights went down and the small posse of hack musicians who slouched in the orchestra pit began to saw indifferently at their instruments . |
| 28 | Oh , no doubt about it , in nineteen seventy two , seventy one seventy two we , we went out on a limb really with that , erm when all other Fire Brigades were using telephone systems , the Suffolk and Ipswich Fire Service went out and did that . |
| 29 | The new deviance writers went further than suggesting that the appearance of crime ( on which positivists built their theories ) was in fact the product of the criminal justice system . |
| 30 | You many have thought , like me , that serving hatches went out when the craze for eating in the kitchen came back into fashion . |