Example sentences of "[noun sg] went [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Er you know erm the letter , the reply went back from Dave saying that every you know , possible thing was done to get bilingual staff but at the end of the day you know they could n't come up with the goods .
2 There were several others who used to come and see me in Baldersdale , particularly after the first television programme went out in January 1973 , including some of the nurses .
3 After about five minutes a light went on in back .
4 After the third knocking a light went on in Jessie 's room ; then there was the sound of muffled voices .
5 ( 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 . )
6 Once those scenes had been completed , the carrier went back to North Island to pick up the replica aircraft and the two P–40s , and transported the entire group to Hawaii .
7 and an advert went out on Caroline , Radio Trent .
8 In South Ward my vote went up by 35% , more that the percentage increase of any of the other contenders and that was in spite of a pre-run of general election tactics by Labour .
9 Group turnover went up from £219.1 million to £237.2 million in the 12 months , while earnings per share rose from 23.8p to 25.4p .
10 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 .
11 ‘ A car went out of control and hit a plate-glass window .
12 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 .
13 The accident happened when the car went out of control on the Iffley Road in Oxford late last night .
14 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 .
15 TWO teenagers were taken to hospital after their car went out of control and plunged into a ditch .
16 In the morning Dot went off to school and he was n't there .
17 Geoff Addy , from the Old Dun Cow , left his pub last month after his annual rent went up to £76,000 .
18 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 .
19 Mill and bakery went out of business in the 1960s .
20 The bait was taken by the Swedish owner of Les Noces , and the auction went off without hitch .
21 They 'd freak totally , if their boss went around in jeans .
22 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 ?
23 At any rate , declarer went up with dummy 's ace to drop the queen and land his slam .
24 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
25 This sport went on for hours , well into the evening .
26 THE magician and his talking parrot had been working an ocean liner , until one day the liner went down in fog .
27 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 .
28 There was one classic occasion when the flare went out at Fawley refinery .
29 ( 120 men of the 650 in the battalion went off to Cyprus in September for a month . )
30 A cry for help went out to Kings and Princes of the West , and Richard was one of the first to respond , receiving in November 1187 the piece of material cut into the shape of a cross which was the badge of all crusaders .
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