Example sentences of "[noun sg] went [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the we the wee fella went out into the hallway and |
| 2 | The light went on in the hall and the door opened . |
| 3 | A light went on in the house opposite . |
| 4 | When the light went out in the last room , Bridget began to get up . |
| 5 | The mess tin went back into the cupboard . |
| 6 | The pair tied the knot in July , and the last-minute wedding went off to a tee … |
| 7 | Dear Mr. Lum — who had been admitted to the Weavers ' Company himself in 1787 — had agreed to recommend his friend William Charles Titford , and the deal went through as a freedom by redemption — that is , by virtue of payment — rather than by apprenticeship or patrimony . |
| 8 | The wind went round to the east and freshened . |
| 9 | This research went on throughout the Eighties , attracting huge investment . |
| 10 | When the Nationalists won only one seat at the general election of 1970 , the tension went out of the argument . |
| 11 | Some of the tension went out of the room . |
| 12 | During the United Nations International Women 's Year in 1975 , the Salvadorean government spent more time and much more money on ensuring that the Miss Universe beauty contest went off without a hitch , than on debating the issues of discrimination against women . |
| 13 | Ruth sat silent on the stern thwart as the Drowned Forest receded and the boat went out over the glittering water , into emptiness . |
| 14 | Then the boat went down between the waves and she could see only mountains of wild water everywhere . |
| 15 | The horse went up to the manger and stood there . |
| 16 | The superintendent went back to the shop-floor and David looked at Rachel . |
| 17 | Gazza 's former Spurs team-mate Gary Lineker turned his talents to cricket yesterday and made 103 for Cross Arrows at Lord 's , but his side went down to the Stock Exchange by five wickets |
| 18 | One of his two sixes off left-arm spinner henry went out of the ground , and play was held up while police vainly chased a thief who made off with the ball . |
| 19 | The car went off up the drift as many times Goblander had gone . |
| 20 | Gloria and Dot went down to the Town Hall once a fortnight to collect Dot 's vitamin ration . |
| 21 | So Gloria and Dot went back down the area steps to their room , leaving the sunshine behind . |
| 22 | But while the search went on for a suitable donor , Evelyn and Peter Walker kept a constant vigil by their ten-year-old daughter 's hospital bedside . |
| 23 | Then he , too , turned and without a backward glance went out into the passage , slamming the door . |
| 24 | Loretta 's mind went off at a tangent . |
| 25 | ‘ My father called me Breeze , ’ she added , as he seemed interested ; and as she said that her mind went back to the hot summer 's day when her father had given her the nickname which had been adopted by everyone . |
| 26 | Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ? |
| 27 | His mind went back to the familiar and unanswerable question : who killed Newley ? |
| 28 | My mind went back to the scene in that bedroom and the sliding doors to the paved patio . |
| 29 | Marshall 's flax business declined after his death and closed down altogether in 1886 , but the building remains standing ( and occupied ) as a monument to the slight attack of megalomania that Yorkshire 's textile industry went through in the nineteenth century . |
| 30 | Talk ought to go on , even if murder went on at the same time ; at the sideboard Twomey turned his back before he smiled . |