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

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1 Before this , much of Building 3 and its associated courtyard apparently went out of use , judging from an extensive stony layer deposited across their remains .
2 Those at the north end of Normangate Field remained essentially agricultural in character throughout the second century , after which they apparently went out of use .
3 And I only went out with Jerry to make him jealous . ’
4 The longest-running powder ski of this type was the Fischer Future Extreme , which only went out of production a couple of years ago .
5 She only went out after dark , to walk in the woods and the fields .
6 But one day at the club when he trotted out this phrase during some heated discussion in the midst of a little group of members ( all of them persons of some consequence ) , Nicholas Stavrogin who was standing to one side alone and unnoticed , suddenly went up to Mr Gaganov and , taking him unexpectedly and firmly with two fingers by the nose , managed to drag him two or three steps across the room .
7 Indeed , in 1984 some eighteen smallish tour operators failed and in late 1984 an important firm , Budget Travel ( the tenth largest at the time ) also suddenly went out of business .
8 There were many of them , and the simple home-made bread , butter , honey and milk scarcely went round despite Amsterdam 's generosity .
9 It was ironical that Adam , who was the owner of that big house and all that land and the contents of the house , nevertheless went down to Nunes the second time with less than a fiver in his pocket .
10 When Jessamy finally went up to bed that night , she was tired , but pleased with the way that the day had gone .
11 The old boat , seen in our picture ( below ) with her cox'n Walter Fairbairn , saved over 60 lives , and was the last pulling and sailing lifeboat in Scotland when she finally went out of service in 1943 .
12 It was during the early part of his occupation that the last of the Painswick cloth mills finally went out of business and a number of others , such as Damsell 's , were converted to other uses .
13 Arthur McCumiskey 's men , the team of September , and very nearly of October , finally went down in match 14 .
14 But after losing her only child , ‘ both she and her husband took to drink and dishonest dealing , and finally went back to South Africa under a cloud . ’
15 Hopes of renewed love and peace soon went up in smoke .
16 Ford Motor Company produced an Edsul years ago , and nobody liked it and so nobody bought it and so it soon went out of production .
17 Headhunters were also forced to become more professional because of the growing complexity of the corporate problems they were called upon to solve ; those consultants who were less sophisticated than their clients soon went out of business .
18 He said : ‘ We know the car rounded the bend and somehow went out of control , mounting the pavement and striking the girls . ’
19 Proclamations to the Party after the ‘ seizure of power ’ generally went out under Hitler 's name .
20 I think this is rightly so , but there is an advantage to knowing to being slightly more explicit about how you 're doing it , and I think that if a lot of the evaluation that already went on in schools became a little bit more explicit and a little bit more open , it would be much easier for people outside the schools to realize the extent at which schools were themselves already engaging in evaluation .
21 We did n't tell no one about it , just went off to church quietly by ourselves .
22 He just went off after Evensong .
23 We just went down around town .
24 But they just went out of fashion as well .
25 They just went out for dinner , that sort of thing . ’
26 We just went out for days and that really last week .
27 Although they built a mere 30 or so aircraft between 1929 and the end of 1933 when they formally went out of business , their racing craft took most of the major air races in that time and broke the world speed record for landplanes on one occasion — no mean achievement for a team that worked from hand-to-mouth most of the time and had little formal education .
28 Therefore the narrow stetches gradually went out of use as more machinery was introduced , and they were replaced by flat-work — wide stetches with water-furrows at as great an interval as was compatible with efficient overall draining .
29 But I still went out with Michael .
30 Mr Condon , 45 , currently Chief Constable of Kent who takes over as the Met 's youngest-ever Commissioner in February , added that bombs still went off in Northern Ireland despite having the army on the streets .
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