Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] went [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Chelsea fans went home deliriously happy after the club 's seventh win in eight games , a run which has moved them up to fifth place . |
| 2 | Miss Phoebe went on huskily : |
| 3 | ‘ We need all the support we can get , ’ Miss Harker went on earnestly . |
| 4 | From the team in New Zealand , Mark Ramprakash , Jack Russell and the luckless David Lawrence went home early . |
| 5 | The Devon side went down only 2-1 at Leicester last week , but Ealing are a different proposition . |
| 6 | Only wingers Rory Underwood and Simon Halliday went so far as to deliver confirmation of their departures from the international scene after the 24–0 win against Wales at Twickenham on Saturday . |
| 7 | The Candis presentation went well too . |
| 8 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to tell him that he was a possible future Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 9 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to write a very tough letter to the editor in defence of Ramsey . |
| 10 | Uncle Ken went up there . |
| 11 | All hell broke loose , Mount Stewart was besieged by the media , and one Fleet Street paper went as far as accusing MacDonald of duplicity . |
| 12 | On two occasions Shah Jehan went so far as to declare Dara his desired successor , while adding that the matter rested in the hands of Allah . |
| 13 | Mrs Brooks went back downstairs to wait until she was called to take their breakfast away . |
| 14 | Anne nodded and Mrs Ward went on quietly , ‘ He 's been a troubled lad this last year or two , but he 'll sort himself out soon . ’ |
| 15 | But he changed his mind and only wanted me to play against QPR when Lee Sharpe went down poorly . |
| 16 | Despite being outnumbered , unaware of the enemy 's dispositions and ignorant of the terrain , Hamilton was ordered to make the first British landings on 25 April at the southern tip of the peninsula near Cape Helles , while Anzac troops went ashore about 24km/15mls farther up the Aegean coast near Gaba Tepe . |
| 17 | ‘ But we 'll keep in touch , ’ Mrs Bennett went on brightly , as she stood up . |
| 18 | Kip Bertram went so far as to describe the letter as ‘ venomous ’ , and Norman Smith , managing director of Total Book Distribution , said it was ‘ insulting and naive ’ . |
| 19 | The next night Geoffrey Appleyard went in alone , and after scouting round for the two agents he was to meet , he abandoned all caution , running up and down the beach shouting for them and waving his torch . |
| 20 | I personally do n't know a lot about it apart from the fact that Arthur Scargill went up there and there was a bit of excitement . |
| 21 | The Education Officer of Matagalpa Prison went as far as to say that when systems of exploitation can be brought to an end , crime as a major social phenomenon will disappear . |
| 22 | Florrie Tremayne went on regardless : ‘ And poor old Alfred with his shop ; he 'd wanted to be a doctor , a GP , plodding along in some backwater for forty years , supported by a sufficient number of loyal patients who hung on his words and swallowed his medicines with no fuss . |
| 23 | The Lewisham Council went so far as to apply to the High Court for an Order of Mandamus requiring the Commissioner of Police to seek to have the march banned . |
| 24 | In nearby Sumatra , the Batak men went as far as deliberately slicing open their penises and inserting pieces of stone , which became firmly embedded as the wound closed over . |
| 25 | John Maynard Smith went so far as to submit the super-forgiving Tit for Two Tats . |
| 26 | Poor Ned , cruel with his jealousy , who had already made it clear to her that as soon as Captain Goldsborough went away again — as he surely would — to see to his interests in Antigua and Martinique , then she would have to give Ned exactly what he wanted . |
| 27 | The arguments within the Thatcher administration went on apace over whether to swing the axe fiercely into public spending in the winter of 1980–1 , with ministers like Prior , Pym , Walker , and Carrington arguing the case for maintaining public expenditure and investment , monetarists outside the government like Alan Budd urging far more stringent monetary restraint , and Sir Geoffrey Howe at the Treasury buffeted about in between . |
| 28 | ‘ Them and their few miserable acres , ’ Bull O'Malley went on contemptuously . |
| 29 | Peter Robinson went so far as to say that until late 1974 ‘ there was no party ’ . |
| 30 | Yes , Lord Stradbroke went up there ; and they thought the pub had become unruly , so they thought they 'd better close it . |