Example sentences of "[noun sg] went [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the wedding went ahead with two hundred or more of their Hollywood friends attending . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He knows its hard on him , but the boat went better with another boy . |
| 4 | Average tax revenue went up from 34 p.c. of national income in 1979 to 40 p.c. in 1982 but this was necessary to eliminate public sector borrowing , which at some 6 p.c. of national income was an implicit ( deferred ) tax rate . |
| 5 | The rent went up to thirty pounds a week . |
| 6 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 7 | Fighting went on in New France for another twelve months , but after the fall of Quebec this was more a matter of moving forces over long distances than of confronting threats that the French might retrieve their position . |
| 8 | My mind went back to one particular Saturday evening . |
| 9 | Frank 's mind went back to that torrid summer when they had melted into intimacy . |
| 10 | As she stared unseeingly ahead , her mind went back to that first meeting with Robert , and a pang of regret shot through her . |
| 11 | As the throng of workers laughed and joked , tucking into the vast amount of food laid out before them , Annie 's mind went back to other Mell Suppers and not for the first time , she reflected on how her family had dwindled . |
| 12 | I regret that the seasonally adjusted figure went up by 700 to 121,600 last month , but I remind the hon. Gentleman that in January 1986 , the figure was over 170,000 . |
| 13 | The figure went up from 178 in 1982 to 252 in 1991 . |
| 14 | Odette 's weight went up to 17½ stone before she found the strength she needed to tackle her eating problem . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And anyway , the panda went upstairs with this prostitute and erm well he was a bit peckish so they had something to eat . |
| 17 | Figures such as Margaret Thatcher and Edward Heath , on the other hand , have remained remarkably quiet , although the idea of the state visit and some signal honour went back to 1970 — 4 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | The take-off flare went up at 0440 hours and Colonel Seawell was the first away as Group Commander . |
| 20 | The spread of readily available and simple means of contraception has meant that the wife is less likely to spend much of her life in the bearing and rearing of children and is more likely to seek employment outside the home , thereby developing a source of income and interests outside her traditionally defined role : ‘ … in Britain the proportion of all wives in paid work went up from 10 per cent in 1911 ( as it remained in 1931 ) to 26 per cent in 1951 and 42 per cent in 1971 ’ ( Young and Willmott , 1975 , p. 101 ) . |
| 21 | Every day the Prince and Princess went off on official business , to look at churches , visit hospitals and meet people , and the minute they were back on board the royal yacht , Charles would quickly change into some comfortable clothes and sit on deck with his sketchbook and teacher , until the very last minute before the bell for dinner . |
| 22 | 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 ) |
| 23 | In the present context , what is significant , if not altogether surprising , is that hardly a speech or publication went by between 1920 and 1922 without the most concentrated vitriol being poured upon the Jews . |
| 24 | The investiture went ahead on 1 July and was a splendid and dramatic piece of pageantry ; it was also strangely moving . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | After the 1987 election , the battle went on with new intensity . |
| 27 | Her boy went out on this work experience thing for his school like . |
| 28 | Maybe if I was on Sandøya when winter came , when the sun went in for two or three months , when all the water froze , when ice covered the ground and fishing was a risky business of frozen fingers and ears , on water in which survival was measured in seconds , I would be less romantic about it . |
| 29 | A whole lot of serious debating went on about this . |
| 30 | The curtain went up at 2 pm , so the children had to arrive at the theatre at about 1.15 to get ready . |