Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] went [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remains of the iron overshot water wheel eventually went for scrap in the late 1960s . |
| 2 | Until 1980 the vote always went against television , although the margin was narrow . |
| 3 | Simpson , booked for the challenge that sparked this flare-up , was the victim of a nasty challenge by Gareth Hall a minute later — and Hall also went into referee Keith Hackett 's book . |
| 4 | I 've been doing this for twenty five years so the best deal I 've ever done is the sale I make each week which brings me three hundred quidHe later went onto spend over five hundred pounds on a Mickey Mouse Toy . |
| 5 | Five years or so passed and the boy even went to school there . |
| 6 | Heavy drinking sometimes went with immorality but many people who were otherwise upright and hardworking ruined themselves by spending all their available money on drink . |
| 7 | Only that , he says would ensure that such disputes over legal procedure were sorted out before a case ever went to trial . |
| 8 | Quite a large group apparently went to work as compositors in the south of England , if that is the right interpretation to put on the mention " gone to Colchester " which is recorded against the names of some women in the trade-union membership registers which are the chief source for this information . |
| 9 | We threw stun grenades into the room then went in firing . ’ |
| 10 | IAN Wright 's name duly went into referee David Allison 's book — but it will not cost him his FA Cup semi-final place against Tottenham next month . |
| 11 | Jasper often went to school but nearly as often did not . |
| 12 | My father never went to bed without supper , no matter what happened . |
| 13 | Her fury with the diabolical man nearly went into orbit , though , when , once more pinning his dark-eyed look on her , he drawled , ‘ Just hanging on to him while he 's good for the rent , is that it ? ’ and , having made up his mind to that , seemed not to require an answer . |
| 14 | Previously , a bondholder could swap his old paper for new bonds with the same face value but , say , different rights and terms , without closing his options if the firm later went to chapter 11 . |
| 15 | When the association , backed by the Chilean Health Ministry , requested the prohibition last week , the Chilean Boxing Federation immediately went to court to try to protect the world title fight between Chile 's Bernardo Mendoza and Luis Sosa of the Dominican Republic , reports El Cronista . |
| 16 | The navigator 's sea cabin was small , wedged between the CCO and the signal deck , and one he seldom used since the depot ship rarely went to sea . |
| 17 | The report then went to Finance Committee , and I believe it actually referred the whole of the Report to the Party Groups , now . |
| 18 | The company subsequently went into receivership and the bank called in the personal guarantees . |
| 19 | The case never went to trial and was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount now known as the Wallis Foundation Fund , with which the Cezanne was purchased . |
| 20 | Highland Express subsequently went into liquidation in December 1987 . |
| 21 | Mrs Thompson 's daughter , Elizabeth , said her mother generally went to bed at 7 pm until 7 am and always turned the heating off , leaving the house quite cold . |
| 22 | In spite of this , Mahan wrote ‘ For twenty-two months Nelson 's fleet never went into port , at the end of that time , when the need arose to pursue an enemy for four thousand miles , it was found massed and in all respects perfectly prepared for so sudden and so distant a call . ’ |