Example sentences of "[noun sg] went [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After about five minutes a light went on in back . |
| 2 | ( Also , the particle theory of light went out of favor during the nineteenth century ; it seemed that everything could be explained by the wave theory , and according to the wave theory , it was not clear that light would be affected by gravity at all . ) |
| 3 | Witnesses in the car said Williams had not been driving at an excessive speed and had not been distracted in the moments before the car went out of control , said Mr Hardy . |
| 4 | ‘ A car went out of control and hit a plate-glass window . |
| 5 | It 's the resting place of 4 of the 5 youngsters who died when a speeding car went out of control in Akers Way and hit them as they played at the side of the road . |
| 6 | The accident happened when the car went out of control on the Iffley Road in Oxford late last night . |
| 7 | It was in September 1991 that 5 young people died when a speeding car went out of control and hit a bench on the side of Akers Way in Swindon . |
| 8 | TWO teenagers were taken to hospital after their car went out of control and plunged into a ditch . |
| 9 | In the morning Dot went off to school and he was n't there . |
| 10 | This monologue went on throughout dinner , after which he insisted that we all went across the road to the village hall where he would show us his slides of the Lake District . |
| 11 | Mill and bakery went out of business in the 1960s . |
| 12 | The bait was taken by the Swedish owner of Les Noces , and the auction went off without hitch . |
| 13 | scraped it all in and I said I 'll leave it in dish cos it 's a dog doggy dish went back in house and , oh what did I come back for ? |
| 14 | At any rate , declarer went up with dummy 's ace to drop the queen and land his slam . |
| 15 | The result was all wrong … 6-2 on aggregate to Tranmere but there was a flicker of hope in the flames as United 's cup run went up in smoke … |
| 16 | THE magician and his talking parrot had been working an ocean liner , until one day the liner went down in fog . |
| 17 | The logical erm conclusion from that was to look at some form of tertiary education and that is what the County Council went out to consultation on . |
| 18 | Everyone was drinking but scattered at the sight of Bill Sykes but this little girl went back on stage to finish her drink ! |
| 19 | The race riots had run their course by 1968 , but violent protests continued on the university campuses as long as the war went on in South-East Asia . |
| 20 | And as I as I told you before , we was on the main concourse , heard the glass smashed , we come down a stairwell on , come round the back , saw the two , or saw two persons in the back garden , asked them what they were doing buy which time the the curtain went up in smoke , well up in flames . |
| 21 | The curtain went down in dignity and tranquillity . |
| 22 | As a result loading went up in volume by four times within a month . |
| 23 | Sorting went on in Church and Davidson Room from 10 am to 10 pm for a fortnight . |
| 24 | Rain went on in English to Maurin : ‘ You knew the drugs were at the villa . |
| 25 | Wicket-keeper Fothergill did well to hang on to the ball low to his right , especially as the whole team went up in jubilation before the ball had reached his gloves . |
| 26 | One bomber , hit by fire from a German trawler went out of control and dropped a bomb among the landing craft , while the other bombers had to climb sharply in a stream of tracer to avoid the cliff behind the town . |
| 27 | While the Collector went off to bed in the middle of the day , Harry made a round of the Residency wheel accompanied by the giant Sikh , Hookum Singh , festooned in lengths of chain . |
| 28 | The incendiary charges Manolo 's experts had set up earlier in the day went up on schedule . |
| 29 | The cars clipped and Gooch 's Escort went out of control , careering into a group of young people . |
| 30 | Police have no idea why the lorry went out of control . |