Example sentences of "[noun sg] went [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the cooking , eating , living went on under this vaulted ceiling with its skylights , around this central fireplace , on this limestone floor knuckled with the imprints of fossils . |
| 2 | He knows its hard on him , but the boat went better with another boy . |
| 3 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 4 | Frank 's mind went back to that torrid summer when they had melted into intimacy . |
| 5 | As she stared unseeingly ahead , her mind went back to that first meeting with Robert , and a pang of regret shot through her . |
| 6 | The lame recital went on for some time , while Jerome , piteously small and shrunken and wretched , kneeled in Rhun 's supple , generous arm , with that radiant , silent face beside him , to point searing differences . |
| 7 | And anyway , the panda went upstairs with this prostitute and erm well he was a bit peckish so they had something to eat . |
| 8 | ‘ Not till — ’ But their argument was violently interrupted as a cheer of derision went up from another corner of the playground and Jack caught a glimpse of Derek 's looming bulk in the middle of a crowd of children . |
| 9 | Even the most reliable equipment is at the mercy of the fuse in the plug , and I would hope that if the Rocon circuit went off for this ( or any other reason ) , the remaining 200 watts would keep the tank from lethal chilling until I spotted the problem ( I am often away for days at a time ) |
| 10 | Once again , however , defensiveness won the day and when the Strathclyde Centre circulated forces asking them to co-operate in the venture , a decision was taken to withhold co-operation and a circular went round to this effect , suggesting the existing Home Office funded PRSU ( Police Research Services Unit ) and the Home Office Research and Planning Unit were adequate for the needs of the service . |
| 11 | Her boy went out on this work experience thing for his school like . |
| 12 | A whole lot of serious debating went on about this . |
| 13 | oh god I 've had enough of this , so I went round , knocked on the front door , win curtain went back like that , she went |
| 14 | Later Nutmeg went back to all his friends ( looking himself again ) + they all told him about a strange white cat who called himself Nutmeg . |
| 15 | The cry went up for more pix . |
| 16 | The glass of wine went quickly to each head , for Alix 's family was teetotal , and Liz 's alcohol consumption to that date comprised perhaps three glasses of brown sherry and one ( celebrating her A levels with her teacher ) of Liebfraumilch : Esther seemed better connected with drink as with friends , but even she became confiding under the mild influence . |
| 17 | The joke went on after all . |
| 18 | A second grenade went off under another vehicle as army explosives specialists tried to defuse it in the nearby New Lodge Road district … |
| 19 | The day went downhill after that . |
| 20 | Yeah , cos Michael 's name went off to that batch that was sent out . |
| 21 | Significant levels of trading went on outside this inner area , and scattered finds of Minoan products have been made as far west as the Lipari Islands off the coast of Italy , as far north as Troy ( stone lamps ) , and as far east as Egypt and Syria , where Minoan vases made of precious metal have been found . |
| 22 | The importance of Smith 's method went far beyond such simple applications , however . |
| 23 | A roar went up from those near by and the corporal to whom Maggie had just handed the tea , muttered , ‘ Good for you . |
| 24 | Overnight the new Soviet government , with plans for social welfare that on paper went far beyond those of Scandinavia or Britain in 1945 , had to take over . |
| 25 | An ironical cheer went up at this and we settled down for the night . |
| 26 | This is partly because fishing rights erm were written in erm to the , to the European Community system erm as part of in a sense the agricultural policy , erm because they were regarded as part of food policy , and it was thought that you must have , if you 're going to have a common agricultural policy , and that was one of the important points erm of the negotiations for setting up the European Community , then a common fisheries policy went alongside with that . |
| 27 | Its ‘ public service ’ role went well beyond that of BR 's in two other respects . |
| 28 | These developments also reveal a basic change in the conception of the travelling agent whose existence went back in some form to the beginning of organised antislavery in the 1780s . |
| 29 | Mum went off with all her friends to McDonald 's afterwards for coffee . |
| 30 | The securing of Edinburgh Castle was to have been announced by the firing of three cannon from the ramparts , the signal for a chain of beacons to carry the news to Braemar , 70 miles [ 112 km ] to the north , but in the end the rising went ahead without this symbolic success . |